Jib and Teresa Davidson navigate their way out of Port 32 Marina in Jacksonville during a trip in April. The couple are among the hundreds of boaters who have completed the Great Loop in recent years.

Jul. 23—IUKA — More people summit Mount Everest each year than complete the Great Loop, a 6,000-mile circumnavigation of the eastern United States and part of Canada. Local couple Charlie and Robin ...

MANITOWOC – When you complete a feat rarer than climbing the summit of Mount Everest, you really oughta write a book about it. So that's what one Manitowoc couple did. Back on Sept. 2, 2021, Jill and ...

The Great Loop represents one of boating’s most ambitious journeys, a continuous waterway route circumnavigating the eastern portion of North America. Recently, Boating Magazine launched a captivating ...

One Friendsville couple, Debbie and Avalon Hawkins, and their navigator Tres Thompson, are back at home in Tennessee after spending the better part of two years completing America's Great Loop, a ...

SISTER BAY - Amy and Scott Heidler have enjoyed taking their boat out on the water for cruises for pretty much all of the 35 years they've been married. But while they've taken their boat on what some ...

DULUTH — Buying a big boat and taking a 6,000-mile trip over two years wasn’t the kind of adventure that Kay Libby initially had in mind for retirement, at least not until COVID-19 hit. “Then I ...

Newport resident Joe Rooney calls it "the experience of a lifetime" – a 6,800-mile boat trip around the Great Loop, which took him from Florida up the Intracoastal Waterway through New York City and ...

Kay and Greg Libby spent two summers circling the eastern half of the U.S. on their boat, Superior Passage. Kay and Greg Libby on the aft deck of their trawler, Superior Passage, docked at Drummond ...

The "Great Loop," a voyage traveling the eastern seaboard, the Erie Canal, the Great Lakes, down the river systems to the Gulf of Mexico and back to the starting point, attracts adventurous boaters.

Opportunities to go on the adventure of a lifetime may be few and far between, but for Costa Mesa residents and boating enthusiasts Dan Salazar and Ann Johnson, an epic journey is just a boat ride ...

SHEBOYGAN - Sue and Rick Rosenwald left Sheboygan headed south on their boat, "Fire Escape," in October 2018. In July, nearly four years later, they cruised back into Sheboygan from the opposite ...