The Great Loop takes the cruiser approximately 6,000 miles through 16 states and Canada. It typically starts in Floriday, although it can start anywhere, and takes 8 months to a year to complete. The objective is to choose a starting point and return to that point of origin. We have chosen Vero Beach, Florida. Starting in Vero Beach, our tentative plan is to travel up the east coast on the intercoastal waterway (ICW). We will stop in Stafford, VA to do routine doctor and dental appointments. We hope to depart VA at the end of May and head up to New York. We will go up the Hudson River to Troy, NY, go west on the Erie Canal to the Trent Severn Canal, take the Great Lakes to Chicago, down the Mississippi to the Ohio River, the Ohio to the Tennessee River, and then the Tennessee Tombigbee Canal, south to Mobile and the Gulf Coast. We will then go down the coast to the Okeechobee Waterway, cross the state to the east coast of FL and north to Vero Beach. The Loop is then complete.
This morning Randy hoised our America's Great Loop Cruisers Association (AGLCA) burgee and we left Vero Beach at 10 a.m. We're officially "Looping."
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