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.























Sunday, December 4, 2011

Boat yard

We are drawn to this boat yard by friends and familiarity. We decided to come back for the week end to join some new friends for happy hour. We went out for breakfast with yesterday with our British friend Peter and John and Louanne from Michigan. Louanne was one of the women on the walking club we started last Christmas.  It turns out we went right by their house on our trip through Lake Michigan but we did not know it at the time.
It is really nice sitting at happy hour and listening to the various places people are preparing to travel to. Gary and Irene from Thunder Bay are heading to Cuba then Guatemala and Belize.  A Welsh couple are heading to the Florida Keys. Louanne and John are off to the Bahamas as well as our British friend, Peter. These are folks in small boats that only go 6 or 7 knots. They wait for the right weather window and off they go.  They find nice anchorages and just relax and fish and meet people.  It is a tough life, glad to be part of it.
Tomorrow we will leave the dock early and head over to Fort Myers to spend some time with our Bellevillian friends Anne and Bruce. They are in Fort Myers for the winter and have found us a dock  in their trailer park.
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  1. NinichickDecember 4, 2011 at 10:33 AM

    Hi guys....how about a picture of the big boat in the yard! Can one have too much fun???? I think you are guilty. Wish I could be guilty, too. Enjoy, Enjoy!

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