The Great Loop
This web site is an attempt to provide a quick and easy way for our family and freinds to keep up with us on "The Loop"
The Great Loop is a 6000 mile jouney down the Tennessee River and the Tombigbee Waterway to Mobile, Alabama. From there around the coast of Florida via Key West with a side trip to the Bahamas. Back to the coast of Florida we head up the east coast to the Chesapeake Bay. From the Chesapeake we continue up the east coast through New York Harbour, up the Hudon River, and across the Erie Canal. Through a series of canals we go across Lake Ontario into Canada. We will spend a month in Canada. Back to the US, we will cross Lake Michigan to Chicago. Following the Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, and Cumberland Rivers back to Tennesse.
LOOP CLOSED: 8/12/09: 310 days, 6170 miles, 107 locks, 3 countries, 16 states, 85 different marinas, 10,050 gallons of diesel fuel, thousands of photos, countless new friends, and priceless memories...
Jacksonville
We left St Augustine a day earlier than planned due to a cold front moving through and gale winds predicted. We left in the rain for the short run (30 miles) to Jacksonville. We passed the
Pinta and Nina that had been in St Augustine for the last week. With the bad weather we steered most of the way from the lower station... nice and dry!
Pictured is the
rainy dock at Palm Coast Marina at Jacksonville Beach where we will be for at least a week. Lynn leaves Thursday to return to Knoxville for her "grand child fix" and I will get a few projects done on the boat. Great day to chill and enjoy a pot of beans...maybe even a nap!
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