Has anyone here actually completed this journey? Pretty soon I am going to retire, rather than buy a car or camper. I plan to trade in my old fishing boat, and buy a boat just big enough to make this trip comfortably.
I’ve had several boats over the years, both inboard and outboard. I grew up with Lake Saint Clair 10 minutes away. Some tell me I need a 40’ and others tell me I can get away with a 28’.
Let’s hear your experience with the loop.
https://www.americanoceans.org/blog/the-great-loop/
can I have some money?
OP here. I worked hard for 2.5 decades for my beer/retirement money. You will have to work for yours.
learn to share
Boomers will burn, did you know that?
Give me money.
>i worked hard during the best economic climate of the century
>you need to work hard for yours
>9% inflation
>500k suburban homes
>250k college tuition
>doesn't even tell us what he did to earn the cash
I'm going to paddle my kayak up to your boat and plant a time bomb on your hull, old man.
Is that the middle channel?
>https://www.americanoceans.org/blog/the-great-loop/
Post map.
pretty much I want to go around the great lakes to the mississippi river, take that down through the gulf of mexico. Depending on the weather, or whether we feel like it. we might go around south florida. But will probably cut through florida and come north through the ICW to the atlantic ocean, cut across new york, to lake erie, the. back home to lake saint clair.
forgot pic
Also that isn't where you cut through, it's far further south by lake Okeechobee
Cutting through Florida is boring as frick. Spend the gas money to go through the keys. It will be the highlight of the trip.
Why don't you tell us what it is instead of us having to click and read a tl;dr website?
The Great Loop is a continuous waterway that recreational mariners are able to travel. Along the journey, you will pass through parts of the Atlantic, Gulf Intracoastal Waterways, the Great Lakes, Canadian Heritage Canals, and the inland rivers of America’s heartland.
Anyone that manages to complete this journey is then labelled a ‘Looper’.
The Great Loop is a year-long and almost 6000-mile journey through the eastern United States and Canada’s interconnected water passages.
The journey will take boaters counterclockwise from the Gulf and Atlantic Intracoastal Waterways to the Erie Canal, Great Lakes, Canadian Heritage Canals, and the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers.
Doing this on a sailboat = based
Doing this on a motorboat = cringe
moron. Can’t sail on most of the passage so you’re motoring anyway. Hell you can’t even get through Chicago if your mast is taller than 20’ or something
Very few people do it because the Mississippi River is an industrialized mess. It’s neither scenic nor clean; it’s the boating of driving through a city.
You don’t take the Mississippi
People do ocean crossings on mid 20s foot boats, it depends more on the model and your wants than the length. You can't know what you're comfortable with until you try some out.
I wouldn't really bother though, it's just a road trip but you're stuck on rivers and canals for most of it, the coastal stuff is the interesting part so might as well just bum around up and down the cost instead. That's what most liveaboard types do, at least the ones that actually travel and not just treat it like an appartment at a marina instead of in a building.
OP here. So nobody has actually done this.
Just a bunch of people telling me how to spend my money, and what kind of boat to buy.
And by the way, the term “boomer” was used for my parents. It doesn’t apply to my generation.
For having unlimited technology and information at your fingertips. You kids today sure are stupid
>I’m new to PrepHole and I’ll prove it!
Thanks for playing
>Thanks for playing
You're new to PrepHole and you’ll prove it!
op never ceases to be a homosexual my god. why didnt you go ask the seamen general instead of shitting up the board with a niche question that only rich boomers would know the answers to and b***h when you dont get your way. go cry in your boat some more boomer
this thread is older than the seaman general thread.
Also, I know how to skipper a boat. I have 40 years on the great lakes. I want to onow about the great loop
this thread is two days old
that thread is two months old
are you sure you're still capable of this sort of thing? When the alzheimer's kicks in you go downhill fast.
i forgot to sage so im no better than you op im just gonna kys
“aaagh.... UUUGH.... oh god-- I'm gonna... AAAGH!!! I'M GONNA LOOP!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!! OH GOD IM LOOPING!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Your boat will be vandalized and you will be robbed.
Enjoy your retirement.