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.























Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Wind Delay in Mobile

We were all ready to go this morning, we were all tuned to VHF channel 17 but the weather is not cooperating so everyone agreed that staying put is the prudent course.  There is an 18 mile an hour easterly wind rattling the halyards, the bay is a sea of white caps so we are staying cleated to the dock. Florida will wait for us. It is sunny and the wind is supposed to subside this afternoon.

Randy made everyone a nice spaghetti dinner aboard the Black Tickle. We had some fine conversations and a fine time.

The gang with Randy

Simoone,  Harald,  Levi, Murray and Leigh aboard the Black Tickle




I am busy chasing after the fishing boats that come back in from Mobile Bay.  Yesterday the Captain Sid came back with  empty holds  because the nets were filling up with jelly fish preventing other fish from getting in.  I just missed a boat full of crab pots that had come in for refuelling. Today I have my bike out so I can get to the dock faster. It did not help so far since the shrimp boat, the Captain Roy, came back with nothing to sell.  They drag a small net along the side and if they don't catch anything in that they don't even put their big nets in.  He says with the price of fuel, they want to be sure that dropping all their gear will pay off. There is still hope, I am keeping an eye out for Captain Sid, they should be back soon. After all this running around, I am not fussy, I will even buy catfish if they have it.


I guess we will continue to work on our boat projects today and hopefully leave this afternoon or tomorrow. Mother nature is in control.





Sunset at Turner Marine




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