Hello and welcome to our website.

It became our ambition to achieve "The American Great Loop" around 3 years ago. It was some-where between achieving the 211 locks that the French canals had to offer and meeting a couple of Canadian Yachties in the Hemmingway marina, Cuba. Explaining they where heading south to explore the Caribbean, and that they'd actually traveled from Lake Superior via the Mississippi to their present location. Little did they or we know, that we, with further enquiries and web searching, we would discover the Great loop?

Having left Europe in the spring earlier this year (2003) for St.Petersburg on the gulf coast of Florida; we picked up our new boat "Duty Free" a Maxum 4600 SCB Limited Edition. On Feb 1st and traveling in an anticlockwise direction, we cruised south until we reached Fort Myers, where turning left (West to East) we joined the Okeechobee canal, "the Alligator Alley" Reaching the Atlantic side of the USA we actually exported our vessel to the Bahamas for 15 days. Having returned we traveled north along the ICW (Intracoastal waterways) towards New York, up the Hudson River until we reached Troy. At this point we traveled east along the Erie Canal where we entered the Great lakes at Oswega. Presently we are cruising east and south along the Trent Severn canal in Canada towards the North Channel, Georgian Bay and the 10,000 islands. After leaving Mackinaw Island we’ll turn south down Lake Michigan towards Chicago. Now inbound, south and homeward we will enter into the Illinois, Mississippi, and Ohio rivers. At Memphis we will continue on the Tenn.-Tom canal system until we once again pick up the Intracoastal canal at Mobile, and to conclude and head to our final destination, The Vinoy hotel in St. Petersburg Florida.

Either by Clicking on the maps, which should enlarge, or depressing the appropriate month for a "blow by blow account" You can follow our journey. The website is not a ships-log but more of a dear diary with ups and downs in abundance, even if you don’t know us and nothing about boating you should find it quite interesting.
Also please say Hello, by E-mail as we want to know who's with us but do remember no photographs or large files as we can only download @ 9600 Kbs per second. Our mobile should you wish to call us +1 727 455 6776.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any request please E-mail on trev@thegreatloop.com or trev@computronx.com.