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, May 4, 2009

West Palm

Great Gulf Stream crossing to Palm Beach...Lake Worth....with our friend Tim and Jan ....intracoastal travel is a breeze....Jim and Jeorge left us after a great week...cleared customs and drove back to St Pete. We will miss them.....But they will always remember their trip and the Goombay Smashes!


Tim and Jan's beautiful Searay cruising from Bimini !



Welcome back to the greatest country in the world.. the USA! Those crazy Americans....Peanut Island on Sunday afternoon.....was too much...we almost just stopped ...anchored ....and partied with them!


But on we went to Soverel Marina....
There we found Carmines......fantastic Italian restaurant with our new friends...and then.... Carmines Market....was unbelievable. I must say.....the Bahamas were great.......5 weeks there.......but to be back ...to the computer .......cell service.....and no more $9 for a bag of Fritos......Gee.....



Once again.....it really is all about the people.....and what great people we have had the pleasure of spending time with.....and learn from....we will not forget you!
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