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...
New Bern
The best thing about New Bern is Lynn and Nancy returning. While Jay and I brought the boat from Beaufort, Lynn and Nancy drove a one way rental car from Knoxville to New Bern (8 hours). Jay and I cleaned had the boat clean so we sat up top 'til 1 AM drinking wine and more wine...
This is a picture of a house that
I used to own on the Neuse River. The renovations are so major that I didn't recognize it. I really miss New Bern...
Here is the "new" high rise bridge as you approach downtown...
The docks at the Sheraton that is changing to a Hilton...
Mark Brennesholtz, friend from the sailing club in Knoxville visited with Jay and me. Mark lives in Emerald Isle and keeps his boat at Blackbeard Sailing Club where I was a founding member.
More New Bern photos to come...
This is a picture of a house that I used to own on the Neuse River. The renovations are so major that I didn't recognize it. I really miss New Bern...
Here is the "new" high rise bridge as you approach downtown...
More New Bern photos to come... 
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