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, ...

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 ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Peter Frank has paddled from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in June to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland this month in his 1982 Sawyer Loon decked canoe, but he’s still got a long way to go.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Peter Frank has paddled from Michigan's Upper Peninsula in June to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland this month in his 1982 Sawyer Loon decked canoe, but he's still got a long way to go.

The Great Loop is his most challenging trip yet. While the journey is a bucket-list route for avid boaters, it's rarely done with reliance on muscling a canoe. Frank also travels clockwise, which he ...

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 ...