Jack and Pia's Next Great Adventure: Our New Adventures on "Knot Busy" as we travel from Lake Superior to NC

Gold Loopers

"For the foreseeable future, we will be back in Cornelius with long overdue chores at home as well as preparing "Still Busy" for lake life.

We look forward to our next adventure on the water and are already planning this event. Stay tuned!!!

Lucas - our new "Deck Paw"

Lucas asleep on watch

The quote above is from our last blog submission in April 2010 as we completed The Great Loop in Charleston. When we posted this comment, we really had no idea what our next adventure on the water would be nor how many "long overdue chores" we had at home to complete. So 14 months after completing our trip of a lifetime, we are off again on our "new to us" boat. In August 2010, we made a trip to Lake Superior and purchased a 1990 45' Californian that we have renamed "Knot Busy". She is a fresh water boat that has spent most of her travels on the Ohio River, St. Croix River in Minneapolis, and Lake Superior. After spending a few weeks aboard her last fall, we put her in winter storage with plans to return this year to make the voyage from here to the Carolina coast. On May 26 after 9 months in storage, we relaunched "Knot Busy" and moved her to Pikes Bay Marina in Bayfield, Wisconsin. The last few weeks have been devoted to redecorating the interior (Pia has had 9 months to plan) as well as some needed mechanical updates, we are about to begin our voyage. Our plans are to depart Bayfield in the next week or so, travel 5 - 6 days across Lake Superior into Lake Huron, North Channel, Georgian Bay, Trent-Severn waterway, Lake Ontario, Erie Canal, Hudson River, and then down the eastern seaboard home. Our trip should take about 4 months and we will spend most of our travel time in Canada revisiting some sites we were saw on The Loop as well as exploring new sites.

We look forward to keeping you updated on our travels and hope you will take the time to make comments on the blog as you see appropriate. We will attempt to include as many pictures as possible so you can share in our adventure and both of us will also provide pictures updates on Facebook.