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, April 23, 2012

Deep Creek Virginia

It rained most of the day yesterday so we stayed at the lock dock.  Today is cloudy and the rain and wind is predicted for this afternoon so we are not moving again today.
We are off to town
We put on our rain gear and walked into town to get provisions. We stopped at a Mexican restaurant for lunch. Other than the low cost of the meal, we were not impressed.
We did some indoor chores and read for most of the day.  I cooked a nice hot pot of soup to warm us up.

Aye Aye Captain!!


The garden in front of the lock master's house
The lock master invited everyone for breakfast this morning.  Coffee, muffins and fruit.  He is a wealth of information about the area.  There were 10 of us crowded in his little house but it was really nice.  Jerry is still over there chatting away.  I will put on warmer clothes and go back to town to get more provisions but other than that, we are just reading and waiting out the weather.

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