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.























Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Bay Head New Jersey

We are anchored at Bay Head New Jersey waiting to cross from Manasquan Inlet to New York city tomorrow.  The winds should be favourable so hopefully we will be anchored behind the Statue of Liberty tomorrow.
Empty Beach Haven Yacht Marina
We had a nice quiet afternoon in Beach Haven yesterday.  All the restaurants are closed because it is not summer yet.  The marinas are empty and the boats are still wearing their winter shrink wrap garb. They don't go in until the 15th we understand. It was like walking through a deserted town. We did find a grocery store that was open.
Today it is rainy, windy and cool.  I guess we are too far north too soon.  Yesterday was warm so it is bound to warm up shortly.

Today's anchorage is in a cove surrounded by marinas

Museum in Beach Haven-it was also closed
We are at the Point Pleasant Canal so it will be a short sail out of the Manasquan inlet and into the Atlantic for about 30 miles early tomorrow morning. We will only have lake Ontario left of the big water after tomorrow.
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Location: Avon, Bay Head, NJ, USA

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