The Great Loop by small boat

[rbgarr]

http://www.boatingmag.com/84-days-loop

[Saltiguy]

An old friend of mine did it, about 10 years ago. Started in Connecticut with a 20 foot Grady White and 135 Yamaha - 2 stroke. Did the entire circle in 6 weeks. Quite an amazing guy, and a great story.

[Gary Bergman]

We've been recirculating on it for almost 4 years..what's the query?? You can't pass thru a lot of locks, (namely Seaway Welland, or the Seway St. Lawrence) in a small boat...You can transit the Erie, etc..Heading out Lake Champlain north, the sills are exactly 6 feet....

[Lewisboats]

Don't know about great loop but there is/was a guy left from Sioux City in his home built wooden boat down the Missouri to end up at Woodenboat home.
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/article_3bc7bb5f-5478-57c2-a580-c7779ee1b364.html

[StevenBauer]

Dave, this thread may have gotten more traction the first time around if you had mentioned the trip was made by these two hotties:

http://www.boatingmag.com/sites/all/files/_images/200912/McPhail2.jpg

:D

Steven

[Soundbounder]

I read ON THE WATER by Nathaniel Stone recently.
He rowed a slightly different version of the great loop. Excellent book! A good read.

http://books.google.com/books?id=oqj0joaO2YEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=rowing+eastern+us&lr=&ei=kFyGS5rKOIvKzgTvjZT9BA&cd=32#v=onepage&q=rowing%20eastern%20us&f=false

[Steve Paskey]

I read ON THE WATER by Nathaniel Stone recently.
He rowed a slightly different version of the great loop. Excellent book! A good read.

http://books.google.com/books?id=oqj0joaO2YEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=rowing+eastern+us&lr=&ei=kFyGS5rKOIvKzgTvjZT9BA&cd=32#v=onepage&q=rowing%20eastern%20us&f=false

Thanks for the tip... I haven't heard of the book. Do you recall what model of boat he used? The googlebooks excerpt says it was donated by the manufacturer, but doesn't identify it, and I can't place it from the cover photo.

[Steve Paskey]

Never mind. It was a Loudon from Rossiter boats:
www.rossiterboats.com/page.cfm?dsp=PageView&PageL2ID=48

[62816inBerlin]

:) All I need to know now is "What t. h. is a Duroboat?" (not wood, I'm sure), and "How many thousand gallons of fuel did they burn?"

The rowing trip is definitely more impressive!

Gernot H.

[Breakaway]

:pDuro Boat is aluminum, like wood, a naturally-occurring material.:p

[62816inBerlin]

... aluminum, like wood, a naturally-occurring material....:p
Before they discovered that it could be smelted from bauxite, it was more valuable than gold: I quote Wikipedia :

>>> Although aluminium is the most abundant metallic element in the Earth's crust, it is rare in its free form, occurring in oxygen-deficient environments such as volcanic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic) mud, and it was once considered a precious metal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_metal) more valuable than gold. Napoleon III (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_III_of_France), Emperor of France, is reputed to have given a banquet where the most honoured guests were given aluminium utensils, while the others had to make do with gold.[16] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#cite_note-15)[17] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#cite_note-16) The Washington Monument (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument) was completed, with the 100 ounce (2.8 kg) aluminium capstone being put in place on December 6, 1884, in an elaborate dedication ceremony. It was the largest single piece of aluminium cast at the time. At that time, aluminium was as expensive as silver.[18] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#cite_note-17)<<<<<<

I love your Rudyard Kipling quotation.

Gernot H.

[Luckiest Dreamer]

I always read when the Great Loop is mentioned. Wife and I completed it in 2004. We took 4 years to do it. I have trouble understanding the desire to do it in only one season. There is so much to see and do as you make the trip it would be a shame to do it so quickly.

[rbgarr]

I have a friend who circumnavigated (the earth) with his wife aboard a 44 ft sloop. He was so determined to do it that he rushed it and they got around within a year. Other friends have taken two to five years and had much more memorable voyages.

[Soundbounder]

Thanks for the tip... I haven't heard of the book. Do you recall what model of boat he used? The googlebooks excerpt says it was donated by the manufacturer, but doesn't identify it, and I can't place it from the cover photo.He uses two different boats. One for the inland areas and one for the ocean. On the rivers and canals he uses some sort of scull, then uses the Loudon for the ocean.
I will look them up for you.