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, February 6, 2012

LaBelle Florida

It was a hot and muggy day yesterday at the town dock.  The Captain was crawling around the hot engine room trying to fix the hot water heater.  It was fixed when we left the beach but it is broken down again. The Captain was not happy so the first mate went to town to stay out of the way. I met folks from the boat yard in town who were supposed to have left for the Bahamas by now.  They are still in the boat yard getting their boat ready. Boat work seems to go on and on forever.
We had a very pleasant happy hour with folks fom North Carolina and Ohio as well as a Canadian chap from Ottawa.  It is always intersting to hear some boating bluppers and harrowing experiences.
Randy is leaving us today to carry on towards the east and the Bahamas.  Perhaps we will meet again when we are heading North in the spring.
Jerry is painting today if the rain holds off and I am going into town to do laundry and maybe get a haircut.
North Star and the other 6 boats at the town dock
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