If you live east of the Mississippi, 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. via the Great ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brentwood residents Ron and Karen Atkisson set out on their Carver 43 SS powerboat on Oct. 30, 2017, to complete a 6,000-mile journey that circumnavigated the eastern part of the U.S., known as ...

This past summer, boater Preston Midgett fulfilled a longtime dream of traversing the Great Loop, a 4,300-mile boating voyage that took him around the eastern United States. He has a simple ...