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, December 19, 2011

Marine Yard Sale

Our favourite kind of yard sale is a marine yard sale and lucky for us here it was in the parking lot at Bonita Bills. It starts at 7:00 and runs until 12:00 every third Sunday of the month. There were folks ready to shop before 7:00 but they had to wait for daylight so they could see what they were buying. I went out several times to look around and to stop the Captain. A vendor saw me looking around and immediately pointed him out, they knew exactly who I was looking for. Our boat is full again but they were such good deals.

We had Bruce and Anne join us at the yard sale and then for lunch and a nice afternoon of listening to the music at the bar. We watched Dolphins performing in the harbour. We spent the rest of the day trying to find spots for the new stuff.

Jerry is working on getting the roof ready for a paint job, he hopes to have the whole boat ready to be painted before we head back to the boat yard in late January. I am doing my usual reading, cooking and cleaning and bike riding for supplies.

The weather is a little cooler but this is only temporary as cold fronts move in and out all winter.

Lunch with Bruce and Anne after the yard sale
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