BETTENDORF, Iowa (KWQC) - What started as a dream years ago turned into the adventure of a lifetime for Karly and Evan Nietzel. The Bettendorf natives recently completed America’s Great Loop, a ...

If you live east of the Mississippi River, technically, you live on an island. Every year around a hundred boats prove this point by completing a circumnavigation of the entire eastern U.S. The path, ...

BRAINERD — Purchasing a boat only three weeks prior and attempting to follow the warm weather as the Brainerd lakes area started to chill, Craig Lida headed down the Mississippi river on a 360 day, ...

Kay and Greg Libby spent two summers circling the eastern half of the U.S. on their boat, Superior Passage. Kay and Greg Libby on the aft deck of their trawler, Superior Passage, docked at Drummond ...

Newport resident Joe Rooney calls it "the experience of a lifetime" – a 6,800-mile boat trip around the Great Loop, which took him from Florida up the Intracoastal Waterway through New York City and ...

Jib and Teresa Davidson navigate their way out of Port 32 Marina in Jacksonville during a trip in April. The couple are among the hundreds of boaters who have completed the Great Loop in recent years.

SHEBOYGAN - Sue and Rick Rosenwald left Sheboygan headed south on their boat, "Fire Escape," in October 2018. In July, nearly four years later, they cruised back into Sheboygan from the opposite ...

This nautical journey charts a 6,000-mile course from the Great Lakes to the Florida Keys (and back). The Great Loop takes boaters up the Atlantic seaboard, through historic canals, across the Great ...

SMITHVILLE, Miss. (WTVA) — A Michigan man is making another impressive trek across the country. Peter Frank, a 23-year-old from Escanaba, is currently canoeing The Great Loop. The Great Loop is ...

DULUTH — Buying a big boat and taking a 6,000-mile trip over two years wasn’t the kind of adventure that Kay Libby initially had in mind for retirement, at least not until COVID-19 hit. “Then I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SISTER BAY - Amy and Scott Heidler have enjoyed taking their boat out on the water for cruises for pretty much all of the 35 years ...

Travelers of the Great Loop, a circumnavigation of the eastern U.S., award the title to the expeditionists who accomplish the route more than once. Boaters journey more than 5,000 miles through the ...