The "Great Loop"

Plans have been finalized to leave on April15, 2007, to do the "Great Loop". This trip goes up the East Coast, mostly in the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) up to New York, up the Hudson River to the Erie Canal, west on the Erie to the Oswego River to Oswego, NY, into Lake Ontario, across the lake to Trenton, Ontario, through the Trent-Severn Waterway over the top of Toronto, into Georgian Bay, tom the North Channel, south into Lake Michigan to Chicago, down the Illinois Ship Canal to the Illinois River, to the Mississippi River, south to the Ohio River, up the Ohio to the Tennessee River, up the Tennessee to the Tenn-Tom Canal to Mobile, AL, east to Florida in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, south to Key West, north east op to Miami, and then north up the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway back home. The trip will take us some 6500 miles and we are planning 11 months for the voyage. As our plans become definitive, we will post our progress. ODYSSEE pulled away from our dock at11:30 AM today, April 16 and is now in Charleston at the American Great Loop Cruisers' Association rendezvous. The storm that went through the SE and then up the east coast created gale force winds, delaying our departure. On top of that, Claria fell in the boat on Saturday and sprained her right thumb, so she is still in Beaufort doctoring that situation. We plan to leave Charleston on Friday to head up the east coast.