North Star on the Great Loop Journey: Turner Marine

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.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Turner Marine

We are staying a week at Turner Marine.
We went out for dinner with our Canadian friend Randy at a restaurant across Dog River which is off Mobile Bay. We had to get there by dinghy so we piled into Randy's. It was a beautiful meal with crab claws being the specialty.
Today we went to get groceries and other essentials with the worst courtesy car we have borrowed to date. We managed to get back without breaking down.
We have been invited to a pot luck Halloween party Friday evening on the dock. It should be fun! It is quite hot during the day but it cools down quickly in the evening. We have had as low as 3 degrees Celsius in the morning when we were coming down the river. It should get hotter as we make our way across the panhandle.