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See what they're saying in the press about America's Great Loop Cruisers' Association™ and our Members! 2011 - "The Great Loop" 5000 mile voyage--Charles Stotts--Circumnavigators Club Log Guest speaker Johann Duenhoelter delivered a fascinating account of his eight month, 5,000 mile voyage circumnavigating the entire Eastern half of North America... October 3, 2011 - "I'd call it the trip of a lifetime'--Jim Hall--Fredericksburg.com Peter Williams was in Kinsale in 2009 when Dr. David Scott began his boat trip. Williams was there again last week when Scott returned. This time he brought Champagne and a "welcome home" sign. "I've been keeping up with him the whole time," Williams said. Sabal Springs resident George Sinko has returned from a long sea journey. He completed "The Great Loop" tour, a 6,000-plus-mile voyage circumnavigating Eastern North America via the Intracoastal Waterway.
For those who dream of leaving corporate life and cruising into retirement, Art and Sandra Hubert say go for it.
January, 2011 - "Idyll Time's Great Loop" - Jeff and Susie Parker - Kadey Krogen Newsletter Jeff and Susie Parker are adventurists through and through. If they're not out cruising on their Krogen 48' North Sea, Idyll Time, they are most likely hiking the Appalachian Trail or climbing Mt. Everest or exploring some other uncharted territory.
January, 2011 - "Staying in the Loop" - Kathy Becker - Naples Illustrated Chip Harris and Michele Peppe have a message for anyone thinking about doing something monumental in this new year. "seize the day," Harris says. "This isn't a dress rehearsal," Peppe says.
But after last spring, Jack and Pia Griffin will never see Lake Norman the same way again. October 28, 2010 - "Around the Great Loop" - Erika Odell - WAAY TV.com Have you ever dreamed of leaving everything behind, jumping on a boat, and casting off on a great adventure? That's exactly what hundreds of people across the United States have done, and they've made a stop in the Shoals.October 27, 2010 - "On the Great Loop, throw the timetable overboard"- Dennis Shaw, The Times Daily Members of America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association have spent three days at Joe Wheeler State Park, but most will toss their schedule overboard as they depart the Shoals today. Fall/Winter 2010 - "Great Journey, Great Loop" - Bobbye Kenyon, Boating World
The Great Loop has a simple name, but completing it is anything but. Just ask Dave and Kaleen Dixon of Destin. The duo recently completed the grueling trek that runs along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States and around to the Mississippi River, creating an imperfect circle around the United States.
July 20, 2010 - "A Tiny Boat Tackles the Great Loop" - Shipping News For a man from the cornfields of Illinois with little boating experience and a tiny boat, Buzz Gentes sure has come a long way. Buzz, traveling aboard his 15-foot sailboat Dalmar, is 3,500 miles into a hoped-for 6,000 mile trek that stretches from the mid-West rivers to the Atlantic seaboard. June 15, 2010- "Let's All do the Rendezvous"-Lisa Targal Favors, BoatUS Cruising Logs Each February, a handful of zealous boaters set out for a 5,500-mile journey up the East Coast throught the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi River, then loop back to where they started.
Spring, 2010 - "54 Weeks, 7500 Miles"- Joe Amelia, The Port Hole - Evan and Pookie Davis of Pulaski recently received their BaccaLooperate Degree from America's Great Loop Cruisers' Association.
October 24, 2009 - "Boaters Back after 12 months, 7000 Miles" - Guntersville Advertiser-Gleam Brad and Patti Salvage retired last year and boarded their 48-foot boat at Lake Guntersville Yacht Club for the trip of a lifetime.
Jan and Nicoline Chardet's address changes by the day - if not the second.
October 23, 2009 - "Alabama Couple Plans to Circle eastern US in Boat" - Press-Register Carlton and Becky Moore will have their 40-foot boat, SeaMoore, all to themselves when they embark on their 6,000-mile trip next year. October 3, 2009 - "Family makes dramatic lifestyle change" - North Ottawa Weekly There are people who dream of the having the kind of lifestyle that the Parrent family of Ada was living — a beautiful home, nice cars, financial success and security. Fall comes early in these high latitudes. The trees are already splashed with little dabs of yellows, oranges, reds and purples. Although we are in Middle America, we are at 43 degress of latitude, as high as Boston on the map.
It's early October, and after making your way south from the Great Lakes by way of America's inland river system, you turned upstream on the Tennessee River. You enjoyed a five-day layover at Green Turtle Bay (greenturtlebay.com) in Kentucky's "land between the lakes" region and then followed the meandering course of Kentucky Lake. For years we've boated on Lakes Loudoun and Tellico, and when we vacation it's usually somewhere by the water. It came as a logical progression for us to want to spend a year traveling on the Great Loop.
January 17, 2009 - "NC Couple Tackles Great Loop Adventure" - Geoff Bowlin, Carolina Currents
Educators Gladys and Wright Anderson dreamed of retiring to the cruising lifestyle.For more than a year they've lived that dream while taking a lap around America's Great Loop. There's a saying, "It's the journey not the destination." America's longest inland cruise, the more than 5000-mile Great Loop, is both.
December 1, 2008 - "All Together Now" - Lisa Targel Favors, BoatU.S. Cruising Logs We’re traveling in a caravan of seven boats moving slowly upriver on the windy Tennessee River toward Chattanooga, Tennessee. It's a stunning fall morning as we followed each other out of the marina at the Joe Wheeler State Park in Rogersville, Alabama. September 23, 2008 - "Boaters idle on swollen rivers in Ike's aftermath" - Jim Suhr, Associated Press ST. LOUIS - Rom Gumm has made the best of 10 days spent on his apartment-like boat docked near here - taking in museums, scenic drives, eateries and, of course, the Gateway Arch - but he was eager to head down the Mississippi River. September 18, 2008 - "Group Invaluable to Boaters Traveling 'Loop'" - Bill Henley,The Post and Courier Steve and Janice Kromer run America's Great Loop Cruisers' Association™, which is a community of boaters who travel the waterways of the eastern United States. The Kromers are holding a burgee which members display on their boats. They said it is one of the ways members recognize eah other on their journeys. August 24, 2008 - "The Great Loop" - Marti Attoun, American Profile Guy Leverett pilots his 37-foot trawler slowly across the harbor in Charleston, S.C., enjoying the afternoon sunshine as a dolphin swims a few feet away in the boat's wake. August 19, 2008 - "Greece couple trawls America's Great Loop" - Meaghan McDermott ,Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Somewhere areound the Statue of Liberty in early July, Bob and Sue Hogeman crossed their own wake. July/August 2008 - "The Good, The Bad and The Future" - Wendy Mitman Clarke, Power Cruising Magazine It's Janice and Steve Kromer's usual strategy to travel just before or after high tide on the Intracoastal Waterway in Georgia and South Carolina. But when their 50-foot trawler No Sense entered the Little Mud River in February of this year, en route from Fort Lauderdale to Charleston, that strategy didn't pay off. July 26, 2008 - "Blue skies, blue water atttract former GH couple to sea", D.J. Sobish, Grand Haven Tribune It wouldn't be unfair to think Jim and Sharon Angel were a bit loopy. After all, the Grand Haven couple have spent the last nine years living aboard their boats... July 25, 2008 - "Villagers took their catamaran on a yearlong adventure around the Great Loop", Azia Li Forrest, Daily Sun It took Paul and Susan Morel, of the Village of Bonnybrook, a year and about 6300 miles to travel the Great Loop in their catamaran. July, 2008 - "The Great Loop", Sally and Oliver Miller, Marinalife Magazine On September 3, 2007, at exactly 9:00 am, after a champagne toast with 28 of our friends, we cast off our lines for a trip that would take us through 16 states, 2 different countries and every imaginable type of waterway. We traveled about 5300 miles over a 10-month period. June 22, 2008 - "Couple Lives Life to the Fullest at Sea", Magdalene Perez, Hartford Courant Ray and Linda Corrette are cruising through life in the slow lane, at about 7 knots per hour, to be precise. Last year, the retirees packed up, sold their house and took off on a "big adventure," touring the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River, Florida and the Eastern seaboard on their 1980s diesel-powered boat. June 15, 2008 - "Couple Sails Loop Around Eastern U.S.", Steve Stephens, Columbus Dispatch Many travelers love the open highway.But the highway that Mark and Kay Heigh (pronounced Hay) rode for almost two years is one that few travelers ever venture upon. June 8, 2008, "No Sea Grass Grows Under Boating Retirees", Rita Frankenberry, Virginian Pilot Since he retired a year ago, Kempville resident Charles Burke has been cruising around. But instead of exploring in his car, Burke gets about in Sonata, his 42-foot boat. April 20, 2008 - "Vermilion Couple Cruise Great Loop", Chanda Neely, The Morning Journal Since retiring, Dan and Judy Kernell, of Vermilion, have spent most of their time seeing the world and a lot of water from the deck of their boat. March 21, 2008 - "Around the Great Loop in 7 Months, 3 Weeks", Matt Coleman, Florida Times-Union Tom and Gerry Clare are enjoying dry land again. But it took more than seven months at sea to reach that point. January/February 2008 - "Preparing for a Long River Cruise", Captain Lawrence A. Martin, Big River Magazine I began cruising after ninth grade in an elegant wooden boat: an 18-foot Old Town wood-and-canvas canoe. Our Boy Scout troop paddled rivers and lakes in Northern Wisconsin for 10 days. I was hooked. November 27, 2007 - "Staying in the Loop", Mary Devine, Pioneer Press Jeff Janacek's wife was backing up the files on his Palm Pilot a few years ago when she saw one called "Life List". Tops on the list of things Janacek wanted to accomplish was "The Great Loop". What, she asked, was that? November 20, 2007 - "Tenn-Tom Boosts Looping", Tommy Stevenson, Tuscaloosa News When the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway was completed in 1984, it provided a shortcut to the Gulf of Mexico for commercial barges in the eastern part of the United States. But that wasn't the waterways only advantage... November 11, 2007 - "Setting sail from Huntsville", by Cortnee Blayton, Huntsville Times Bob and Liz Stagg discuss their Great Loop Cruise with Cortnee Blayton October 21, 2007 - "Holland Residents Complete America's Great Loop", Holland (MI) Sentinel Tom and Jane Bos of Holland recently received something called a BaccaLooperate degree from America's Great Loop Cruisers' Association™... October 21, 2007 - "South for the Winter, a Retiring Newscaster Follows His Dream from Chicago to the Gulf" by Lyle Dean, Chicago Tribune The day each year that I put the boat away for the winter has always been a bummer. For many of those more than 30 years, I dreamed of taking the boat to warmer climates rather than to winter storage. You could call it my Search for Endless Summer. Last October, we started that search... |
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