Once we finally left Holland, we shorted our stay on the Eastern side of Lake Michigan. We traveled from Holland to St. Joseph, spent the...

Finding a place to do the 1000 service on the boat was a little tricky to coordinate. We had to find a Volvo mechanic, close to an...

I love the wide open space of the coastal plain in Texas. Every time we'd travel there from the hill country in Austin I could feel...

Entry into Canada was easy. We left Burlington, VT and headed toward the border with much excitement. The wind was picking up and the...

New York was about the midway point of our loop. While it was natural to wonder what the second half would bring, we didn't have to wait...

One night, we shared "docktails" with our buddy boats. One of the captains was Kim, the director of the American Great Loop Cruisers...

As we were cruising through Canada in the middle of June, we got word that my brother Mike had passed. Since he was wearing a monitor at...

Well that virus finally got us. 2 years, 8 vaccinations (4 each) and 4000 miles into our trip, Bruce tested positive for Covid a few days...

Emmy was 6 months old when we found her on PetFinder. She had been loved by a local country western singer whose career was about to pick...

Nautical terms have mysterious origins. Ropes are lines, kitchens are galleys, and bedrooms are berths. Sporting is the nautical term for...

Dismal Swamp is a provocatively dreary title that provokes unsavory images twice. As a son of an artist, dismal hints at a melancholy...

Sudden tension comes on like a rogue wave, a depth sounder suddenly wailing out a warning, or a buoy on the wrong side of the boat in...

As the loop has gone on, we're settling into a rhythm. Some of what's happening is unexpected, like delightful stops for lunch in...

This Memorial Day we went with Looper friends, Kip and Insel, to tour West Point. West Point is spectacular: the grounds, the view, the...

Tomorrow, if the weather holds, we'll head into Delaware Bay. As a friend described it today, Delaware Bay can be a "biatch." So, having...

Crossing these larger bodies of water like the Albemarle Sound, Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay take what feels like a lot of planning...

Spring is my favorite time of the year. It's a yawning stretch out of a cold winter. A growing of pea green after dying barren brown. One...

We've had a lot of guests and it's been great to have touches from home. Julia joined us in Palm Beach. We walked across a bridge over...

Throughout the preparations and travels making up our great loop so far, one creature stands ut: the pelican. As we prepared for the loop...

Our loop is slowing down. Part of it is the weather. Indeed, we experienced gale force winds in both Miami and Hillsboro. Both times, we...