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 ...

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 ...

Newport resident Joe Rooney calls it "the experience of a lifetime" – a 6,800-mile boat trip around the Great Loop, which took him from Florida up the Intracoastal Waterway through New York City and ...

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 ...

BRAINERD — Purchasing a boat only three weeks prior and attempting to follow the warm weather as the Brainerd lakes area started to chill, Craig Lida headed down the Mississippi river on a 360 day, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SHEBOYGAN – A historic peace boat will stop in Sheboygan on its trip around America's Great Loop. Veterans for Peace Sheboygan and Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin, a nonprofit ...

SHEBOYGAN - Sue and Rick Rosenwald left Sheboygan headed south on their boat, "Fire Escape," in October 2018. In July, nearly four years later, they cruised back into Sheboygan from the opposite ...

Travelers of the Great Loop, a circumnavigation of the eastern U.S., award the title to the expeditionists who accomplish the route more than once. Boaters journey more than 5,000 miles through the ...