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 9, 2012

Easter at Osprey Marina

We had a pleasant Easter Sunday at Osprey Marina in Myrtle Beach.  The weather was perfect and some folks invited us to join their family for a bar-b-que. It was really nice sharing our travel experience with them. Their high school and university children were quite curious about Canada.  It was refreshing to talk to knowledgeable youth.
We also had neighbours from North Carolina overnight who are travelling on a Rosborough aptly named Halifax. They are in the planning stage of the Great Loop so again we had lots to share and discuss. They left this morning, we are staying and to finish off the deck painting.
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