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, February 12, 2012

The Crew is stiff this morning

We spent the day scraping the hull and we are not done yet. We are scraping down to the gel coat and starting from scratch since most of the paint had peeled off. It is much chillier today with a high of 58 predicted.  The heater was on all night and it promises to be a frosty 38 degrees tonight.  With the wind, it is the coldest we have had yet. The cold front moves off tomorrow so we should be able to finish off the scraping. Today, we are doing other chores to let our stiff muscles recuperate.  The crew is not used to hard work, usually only one arm is moving.
We did not even socialize last night since it was cold and we were so tired. A nice fish dinner, a movie and bed was the order of the evening.
The Captain scraping while I try all the tricks to get out of work
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