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.























Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Waterford

The spillway with the bicycle trail on the left
We had a nice relaxing day yesterday in the lovely town of Waterford.  We rode both bicycle paths, the one that runs along the Erie Canal and the Old Champlain Canal.  The weather was perfect.
We went back to our little breakfast place and walked around visiting second hand shops.  All we ever buy are DVDs but we like to look.
I read sitting in the sun for the rest of the day while Jerry worked on boat maintenance.
The Visitor Centre free dock
It rained all night and so far it has rained all day.  I made a nice hot pot of soup and we are just sitting around reading and planning our next few days along the Champlain Canal. There are free docks until we reach Lake Champlain.  The weather is supposed to be good tomorrow and then cool on Friday so I had to research docks with power so we can have a heater on. It won't be a problem, Fort Edwards is 7 locks away and 38 miles so we should be able to reach there tomorrow.


Waterford is at the Junction of the Hudson River and the Erie Canal

Nice church in Waterford
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