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.























Saturday, October 15, 2011

Leaving Columbus Marina

We managed to get everything done in one day. Our new strategy is to anchor out near the Marina where we plan to stop to arrive at the marina early in the morning.  We can then use the entire day to do shopping, laundry and top up our water tanks. We were able to catch up on emails and phone calls and still visit with our fellow boaters.
There is a crowd at the lock so we will wait for them to clear before we call for a lock through.  It is nice to be able to see the traffic from the marina. This place has all the amenities but the facilities are not as nice.  The docks are great and the courtesy car was the best we have had so far. The washing machines and dryers were excellent.
We are not going far today, just one lock and to anchorage. I will not have Internet until I get to Demopolis so I will update the blog then.
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)