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 7, 2011

Leaving Fort Walton Beach

It is a beautiful morning and we are following Black Tickle to our next anchorage on Choctawhatchee Bay.  I have one picked out but we are flexible, if the weather changes or if we reach the anchorage too early and it is not what we like, we keep going. We should be in Panama City in the next day or so.

We stayed 3 nights at the free dock along with 4 other boats. Jerry and Randy stocked up on fishing equipment for salt water fishing along with tips and tricks from the locals fishing at the pier. I am ready with blackening spice and Cajun recipes. We even have a net for catching bait and a crab trap. Go get em by's!

Today the water is full of jelly fish and the water temperature is 64 degrees, no swimming here. It is nice to be able to see the bottom again. It has been cool in the low 60s but this cold front has moved off so things should improve until the next cold front moves in. We need to get farther south.

Sunset in Fort Walton Beach
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