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.























Thursday, April 19, 2012

Belhaven North Carolina

Uneventful day on the water today, not much to see in big waters of the Neuse River and Pemlico Sound.
We left late after waiting for a Marine Consignment store to open.  We chatted with some new acquaintances and had a nice breakfast at the little restaurant across from the dock while we waited.  It was all in vain because the store never opened, we left at around 11:00.
Pantego Creek anchorage off the Pungo River
We had a nice pizza dinner at Silos's restaurant last night. You literally are up in a silo. The food was good.  They make all kinds of pastas and organic type noodles as well that you can purchase for home use.
We are now anchored in the Pantego Creek (N35 32 and W76 37) near Belhaven North Carolina with 3 other boats, there is room for 50 boats.  It rained most of the night. Internet access was intermittent.
We should make it close to the Virginia border today on this overcast rainy day. We have the Pungo River that is as big as a lake as well as the Alligator River other than that the rest is narrow and well protected.
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