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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After less than three weeks in a 16-foot flat-bottomed boat that included meeting inspired fans along the Detroit River, a Texas man beat the single-engine record for circling the 6,000-mile Great ...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. – A couple who started sailing the Great Loop on June 24 from Rhode Island is now stuck in St. Charles, but they are spreading positivity in the local community as they wait to leave.

Retirement has taken Larry and April Smith in circles—with no end in sight. Twice these avid boaters have completed the Great Loop, a roughly 6,000-mile journey by water that circumnavigates the ...