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...

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Waterford,NY

As we approach the lock to Waterford from Troy New York, it has been a little while since I have done this song and dance.................This was pretty easy.....just pipe to put your line around and many fenders...thank you very much..........We arrived in time to get a spot to dock and to see Jeff and Susie on Idyll Time....they are from Chattanooga.......another Tennessean....Yeah.... We got docked with much good help just in time to catch the market....fresh tomatoes, bread, eggs and a really great piece of pottery..........Just have to have a few token memories of our trip.......





The tugboat is being refurbished and the waterfall is part of the lock system..overflow.......

Greet and Meet....everyone brought a snack and we discussed places to see and where we had been so far on this Loop................really a nice group of people......

Grocery shopping by boat...

Off to the Erie Canal....locks, locks, and more locks....




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