Doing The Great Loop

Anyone who travels on the Trent Severn Waterway will see quite a few boats who are 'doing the Loop'. Each year, we are able to meet some of these folks, talk to them about their trip and find out where they hail from.

In 2006, while in Trenton, I found myself talking to a gentleman who was 'doing the Loop' with his wife. Their home port is in California, where they had purchased this boat, 'Breakaway', for the trip. As they wanted to begin the trip from Florida, the boat was shipped through the Panama Canal to save the time needed to do that leg of the adventure.

Their web site, BreakawayYacht.com, chronicles the whole Loop cruise. An interesting feature they employed was the use of wrist band GPS units. After each day's travels, they simply uploaded the tracks to their site, so that they ended up with a highly accurate representation of the route traveled.

Take a look, as they have hundreds of photos. They're great to look at to get a feel for the various regions from the east coast to the Great Lakes, Mississippi River & the Gulf of Mexico.