Peter Frank is spending the next year canoeing what's called the Great Loop around the eastern United States and part of Canada. The 9,700km circuit, normally done by motorized craft, takes in the ...

A 23-year-old Eagle Scout is sailing 6,000 miles across the U.S. and Canada, tackling the Great Loop route in an unmotorized canoe. Starting in June from Escanaba, Michigan, Peter Frank has paddled ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

First the bad news: sea lampreys exceeded abundance targets in 2024 in all five Great Lakes. Now the silver linings: the findings weren't a surprise, the reason is well understood and the coming years ...

One Friendsville couple, Debbie and Avalon Hawkins, and their navigator Tres Thompson, are back at home in Tennessee after spending the better part of two years completing America's Great Loop, a ...

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 ...

WHICH IS ALSO FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY -- ONCE OWNED THE CHAIN -- BUT SPUN IT OFF IN 20-20. THIS IS A MAP OF THE GREAT LOOP... A FIVE TO SIX MILE ADVENTURE, AND ONLY ABOUT 200 BOATS COMPLETE IT EACH YEAR ...

KNIFE RIVER, Minn. — Cross one adventure off Kay and Greg Libby’s bucket list. They are officially “Loopers” now. You might recall the retired Duluth-area couple the News Tribune wrote about in March ...

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, ...