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, November 14, 2011

Dog Island

We are enjoying this beautiful anchorage but we are anxious to reach Steinhatchee before the weather window closes. We will eat a hearty lunch and Randy made us some sandwiches for supper so we are all set to go at around 3 this afternoon. We should reach Steinhatchee some time in the night.

Black Tickle and North Star rafted up at Dog Island
We will most likely have to stay in Steinhatchee until the weekend as an other cold front is moving in and the winds are not supposed to be that favourable.  We will see, one hurtle at a time.
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