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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 they've been married. But while they've taken their boat on what some ...

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.

GetMyBoat explores the beauty and adventure of a little-known 6,000-mile boat adventure around the eastern United States and Canada with first-person accounts from so-called Loopers. - IM_photo // ...

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 ...

CEDAR FALLS – Bud and Sue Hansen have spent the last four years cruising America’s rivers, waterways, lakes and bays aboard their 38-foot boat, the Odyssey, soaking in the country’s history and ...

SMITHVILLE – A cancer survivor traveling downstream in a Jon boat and a man dressed like a pirate paddling a canoe upstream met each other July 30 as their well-documented journeys intersected at the ...

ZEELAND — The Majors, a family of four in Zeeland, began sailing in 2019. It wasn’t long before the family developed a passion for life on the blue water. Now, they'll embark on a year-long adventure ...