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 ...

ST. LOUIS – Ron Gumm has made the best of 10 days spent with his apartment-like boat docked near here — taking in museums, scenic drives, eateries and, of course, the Gateway Arch — but he was eager ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Ankeny couple found a new way to scoop the loop. This year, Pam and Terry Partis completed the Great Loop, a 6,600 nautical mile boat journey that travels the Eastern Seaboard, passes through ...

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 ...