North Star on the Great Loop Journey: Iuka Mississippi

Preparing for the trip

Captain Jerry has been making the final preparations to North Star, our 32 foot Cape Island down east trawler. We are anxious to leave our landlubber lives behind and begin our long awaited journey around the Great Circle. Join us as we travel 10, 000 kilometers: through the historic Trent Severn Waterway; the pristine waters of Georgian Bay; the North Channel of lake Huron; and hop from beach to beach on lake Michigan. We will visit Chicago and begin our trek along the rivers: Illinois; upper Mississippi; Ohio; Cumberland: Tennessee; Tenn-Tom Waterway and the Black Warrior. We will have transited through 68 locks at this juncture. We have chosen the inner route from Mobile Alabama to Tarpon Springs Florida and the shorter Ocheechobee Waterway to reach the East coast of Florida. We will skip over to the Bahamas to wait out the winter before heading North on the Atlantic Inter Coastal Waterway.
The 10 years of researching and planning are finally at an end and we invite you to come along on our adventure.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Iuka Mississippi

We are enjoying some fine weather at Aqua Yacht Harbor. It is very quiet since there are only 3 transient boats here.
We went for a bike ride up to the supermarket but it turns out that there are just too many hills and too much traffic to make bike riding pleasant. We have parked the bikes in favour of the courtesy van.
We had a nice meal at the onsite restaurant and we will try the Ribside restaurant that is very near the marina next.
We visited some boats on Saturday as the marina was having an open house on boats for sale. Oddly enough we didn't buy any.
Our fellow boaters invited us for cocktails on their 60 foot Florida Bay Yacht. It was a very pleasant evening. North Star felt a little cramped when we returned.
We went shopping in Savannah Tennesse today. Since we are only two boaters borrowing the 2 vans, they are quite flexible with the length of time that we take the vehicles out. We will use it to go out to dinner tomorrow.