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...

Monday, June 1, 2009

Beaufort

We left Wrightsville Beach, NC at 7AM this morning and arrived in Beaufort, NC at 11:30. We followed Steve and Mare aboard "Free Enterprise" through Masonboro Inlet and had a great ride outside. Tomorrow Lynn and Nancy (Jay's wife) plan to meet us in New Bern. Jay and I will take the boat up Adams Creek and the Neuse River to New Bern. I used to live in New Bern so it will be great to see some old friends.

The bridge as we left Wrightsville Beach... Through the inlet...
Steve and Mare leaving for NJ... The boat in Beaufort...My friend Rich Boyd stopped by the boat in Beaufort. We have been friends since he was the minister at First Presbyterian Church in New Bern. He now lives in Beaufort.It's a small small world... We have run into Neil and Roberta aboard their Grand Banks about 3 times from the Bahamas, St Augustine, and now Beaufort. Bill and Debbie Frederickson are from Newport Beach,CA and are great friends with Joan and Harry Karsten of Karsten Homes that is now part of Clayton.These guys are the "Beaufort breakfast club" meeting on the town docks solving world problems! One of them is the mayor and another is former mayor of Beaufort. I met another of them in Key West. A couple of them went to Wake Forest where I went to college. The small world grows even smaller. Downtown Beaufort...Beaufort Bridge...Good bye Beaufort, hello New Bern.
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