We transported our Hunter Legend 35.5 from Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay up the Trent Severn system. It was a thoroughly enjoyable trip and a great option if you have to transport your boat. Our winged keel draws 4.5 ft and there are several sections of the system that were only 5 ft deep. Although we never hit bottom, weed growth was an issue in several areas. Weeds would wrap around the keel and actually stop the boat. Most of the time, I could reverse and drop a giant ball of weeds off the keel, but once I had to put my mask on and pull the weeds off the prop in order to continue.

Okay, I want to see the editor on the Loop in his amphibious car! And, oh, the video is an excellent teaser for the loop, thank you

As a wannabe sailor, this is my favorite channel. Great info. Thanks!

@user-vx2nb7mv3v

25 күн бұрын

Wantabe sailors teaching wantabe sailors…classic.

You and Practical Sailor are a winning team. Congrats!

That is "pah-DO-cah" Kentucky. As a fellow sailor, I greatly appreciate your newsletter for the last two years and I'm so glad you are now doing the video channel. We enjoy the "loopers" coming thru our lakes (Kentucky and Barkley).

That map is such a tremendous help!!! The way points describing the locks and t he bridge heights is HUGE! And I love your recommendations on detours

Hi, Tim. I am glad you are doing The Great Loop, I want to do it the summer. Thanks for the info. Love both of your programs, keep up the good work.

The best brief synopsis that I've seen on this adventure. Thanks

Well done. Many lingering questions I've had over the last few years you answered in ONE reasonably lengthed video! Thank you

Lived on Lake Champlain for 20 years and always knew the loopers with their masts tied down to the deck. Great channel.

I'm so thankful you started a video channel and great choice on a host. I look forward to each segment. Thank you

I was introduced to the Great Loop World last summer. Having bought a sailboat I decided to keep it in Parry Sound, Ontario. A majority of the slips were open for transient boats with a great many of the visitors being Loopers. I learned about the loopers associations and tracking apps. Looks like a fun group to be part of and a great experience to be had.

What a great video. To the point and full of information. Really enjoying the Practical Sailor channel and Tim.

Very interesting and informative. Looking forward to future articles.

I would LOVE to see a KZread video of someone doing the Great Loop from an Amphibious Car. PLEASE DO IT!

It is in my "bucket list" to do the Great Loop. Thanks Tim, great video with lots of information!

Hey Tim, really enjoy this channel as well as your other channel. I’m a Practical Sailor magazine subscriber and love this new dimension to the magazine.

What a fabulous idea. Another great video Tim!

I'm past my open ocean days. But The Great Loop is now on my bucket list since grands and great grands can join me for short trips. Thanks for the great summary!!

Great video on the Great Loop! We are considering it with our Catalina 310. Your video pushed closer to a yes 😊

Love this segment on the Great Loop!

Great overview of the Great Loop! It's definitely on my bucket list!

Oh definitely I want to see the amphibious car loop series videos. They could pick a month/ week each year and do it in segments! Loved the video of the loop BTW. Keep 'em coming!

This is the video on the Loop that I've been looking for, it's got all the dimensions and route data presented concisely. Plus the links sound helpful for all the details.

I'm from the west coast and never new about the Tennessee River route. Excellent channel!

Your awesome Tim love this new blog of yours.

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for sharing this video!

Planning my loop trip for a couple years now. thanks!

Great video. Excellent quick summary of the loop. Subscribing!

Great video Tim, Loop is on my bucket list!

Good stuff, and looking forward to entertaining the idea of one day in the future researching and prepping for even just a single leg of this excursion, is an exciting endeavour. Thx for the background information! From Waterloo, ON

I, for sure, would like to see the editor on the crazy car!!! They did make a good choice with Lady K!

such a fun adventure love the video thanks Tim

Great video. Nice to know this dream is actually doable. Would love to see more on the Great Loop at some point.

Thank you! I have been considering the great loop as one of my first retirement trips in the near future! Timely...

Good video. Thanks for sharing.

What a great adventure opportunity. This is certainly within reach of my capability (as opposed to an ocean crossing). Thanks for the info.

Great video, thanks for posting!

Planning on doing part of the loop this summer!

great summary!

Great content; having done parts of the Erie Canal and the canals of Ireland (both rented vessels), I'm intrigued about the Loop. Keep up the good work!

Thank you for such an informative video!

Really appreciate the water/air draft and fuel specific info

Great video. Looking forward to seeing the car do the loop!

Great information about the Great Loop. Nice resource for air draft requirements for different sections of the Loop. Also never really thought of the Triangle Loop you mentioned. I was aware of the two options for coming up from NY but never really thought of doing this triangle loop. Definitely something to consider to get “a taste” of the Great Loop (for those of us along this section). Looking forward to seeing the amphibious car do the loop! I guess the good part of this is you can just drive up a boat ramp and drive to the gas station to fill up!

Nice presentation. Thanks. I have done the intercostal several times. And open ocean to Caribbean, Panama and beyond. Despite my long rage cruising, I have really enjoyed the intercostal trips. Would be interesting to do the Great Loop. Again thanks.

Great episode! Thanks...

I so want to do this. Love these videos. I never comment so take it as high praise. Keep up the great work.

@practical-sailor

Ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙏

Loved the video. A few years ago, a dear friend, George Yonge, made the trip in 80 days and wrote a book about it . Guide and Companion to the Great Circle Waterway. I am seriously considering he voyage. Bill Records, Austin, Texas

Bring on the amphibious car!!! 😁 Be great to see a video series dedicated to the amphibious car making the trip!!!

Great episode,

Great summary!

great segment thank you

Tim, I love your channel and am a fan in general. Please ask one of your midwestern friends how Paducah is pronounced. I had to rewind that part twice. As a born and raised Kentuckian, I got a good chuckle out of that one. I’m a soon-to-be retired great loop dreamer myself btw.

Just a correction. People with single engine aircraft don't land at KLAX just to get it off the bucket list. Big airports do not allow your little slow plane to disturb their flight patterns. I am sometimes even denied to just enter KDFW airspace because they are that busy. That said and coming back to boats, the big loop is a very nice scenic drive but just one of many. Crossing France's channels to get to the Mediterranean is also a breath taker. Renting boat in Ireland and sailing the Shannon up and down is also something I am glad I did( and I can tell you much cheaper than the other two options). I bet there are many,many more equality worthy trips around the globe which even I have not heard about.

@davidhowell7901

Ай бұрын

That's odd. My father-in-law has flown into Atlanta's Harts Field (THE busiest airport in America) AND departed; skipping to the front of the line under the wings of all the commercial liners. This was over 20 years ago, though. May have changed.

@wollekemper8317

Ай бұрын

@@davidhowell7901 its not odd, I did not say it is impossible but it is very unlikely if you are in a slow single engine aircraft. Look it from their perspective, you fly 150 knots if you are full throttle and about 75 knots when landing, the big airliners make 250 knots when they land. You delay everyone in the pattern and even taxi on the runway takes you three times as long as a Boing 737 . I do not know what your Father-in law is flying, maybe a faster twin engine or a small jet , but if he has something like a Chessna 175 I would expect they deny him . Big Airports are about safety and business, both things the small planes are disrupting :-) I landed Dallas Love Field (KDAL) with no problem but as said one time I was even denied to enter KDFW airspace because they were too busy.

Yes! Do this loop. So cool

amphibious Car? That would be good to watch! Nice job Tim.

Just added to our bucket list!!

Enjoyed the video. Thanks.

Thanks for the useful information

Tim, Another great video. Thanks. I do want to see that car make the loop.

Never thought about this route before, sounds very interesting

this sounds so fun!

Very informative video. Good site≥

The Loop is on my bucket list.

Sounds like a great adventure

Great video. Like others I didn’t know about the loop. I knew you would do well setting up this channel.

@practical-sailor

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

Can't wait to do it!

That would be the most uncomfortable loop ever! But if he does it, he needs a youtube channel to document it! Everyone will want to see it

I had never heard of this... might be a good trip when I break in my next boat.

Thanks for the info!

Great video 👌

Yay! New channel!

Nice job. First time, long time.

Great overview

I enjoy your videos on all 3 KZread channels. I hope you get 1000 comments.

I hope this channel is good. I enjoyed this one on the loop

Thank you Tim

Great video

Hadn't heard of this, but its a neat concept!

Good video 😊 I'm on the west coast California also I used it get the magazine years a go

Tim, I cannot wait to own a cat boat big enough to use for cruising the Loop. I think I will try the triangle loop first as I live in western Massachusetts. Please keep putting out these great videos!

Love to see a video series for the amphibious car doing the great loop!

great, thank you, one of my dreams for my Pearson 35, Valkyrie III

Aweomse this is what i have a million questions on!

As a 8 time veteran of the Chicago Mobile section I would love to add the advice of shipping the mast to Mobile. Makes the boat handling in the locks so much easier!! Having done whole loop I'd say the toughest part is from Chicago to just past Joliet. Commercial traffic is a bear, but still doable.

That will be a go video

great vid

Until last Sunday, I had never heard of the Great Loop. Now, I must do it. It’ll be a year or two before I’m ready, but it’s my goal now.

@practical-sailor

Ай бұрын

Excellent!

On my bucket list

great loop in water car. sounds Great!

Nice video

This is my dream sail. It would be an outstanding lifetime achievement and a great way to dust out my sailing cobwebs before taking on anything too ambitious.

Amphibious car. I have to see that one. Cheers 🥃

I really want to try this someday.

We first heard about the loop from a couple of Georgians we meet in the locks at Ottawa. One year , one year

The great loop is one of our goals after we get done sailing.

This would be so cool.

I once read a book called “A Year in a Yawl” it was an account of a voyage ( the great loop) that took place in the late 1890s. The yawl was built in Saint Joseph’s on Lake Michigan and unpowered. The crew were four young men referred to as boys. They had quite a few close calls but in the end it was quite an adventure. The book can still be found.

Great video! How does someone do this trip solo? Can you use auto-pilot on rivers? Where can you stop if you need to make lunch - just anchor on a sand bar? So different from open ocean sailing. Glad to see you hosting the "Practical Sailor" channel.

@practical-sailor

Ай бұрын

When I run alone I always make meals ahead of time. Have the day ready before you get underway. Autopilot doesn’t work In skinny rivers.