The maps of the inland rivers is from the US Army Corps of Engineers.
You can transport your
boat by
water, but plan on a wonderful, multi-month voyage: Down the
Ohio to the Kentucky Lakes; the Tennessee and Tombigbee Waterway to Mobile; the Gulf to Ft. Myers and across
Florida on the Okeechobee Waterway (or around the outside to Key West), then up the Atlantic
ICW to the
Chesapeake Bay.
If only they had kept up on that C&O
Canal, it might have taken you only a few days! Have fun!