trishlaplaca Welcome!
It seems like only a minute ago when Jeff and I ventured back into Petzold’s Marine Center in Portland, Connecticut to put Oyster to bed for the winter. As you can imagine, it was tough to give her up after all the wonderful adventures we’d experienced last summer traveling the magical segment of the Loop known as the “Triangle Loop.” If you haven’t yet followed us, you’re invited to reach back into the 2023 archives to learn all about it.
If by chance you don’t know us, we’re Captain Jeff and First Mate Trish. Sure…I’d like to refer to myself as the Admiral, but not until I get much more proficient at this boating thing this year. I am seriously bound and determined!
Please join us as we embark on our Summer ’24 Great Loop adventure. We plan to re-trace our tracks up the Hudson River and Erie Canal into Lake Ontario, this time heading northwest instead of east. Check out this link to see where we’ve been, and then follow the northern line above Lake Ontario westward into Lake Huron, and then south to Lake Michigan and beyond on this America’s Great Loop map by the AGLCA America’s Great Loop Cruisers Association. As you can see, we’ll be venturing all the way down through our country!
Here’s more detail about route this summer. Stay with us while together we journey:
- Down the Connecticut River into Long Island Sound
- Past the NY City Harbor & back up the Hudson River
- Up the Erie Canal and into Lake Ontario
- West up Canada’s Trent-Severn Canal
- Into beautiful Georgian Bay
- South on Lake Michigan
- Through Chicago & down the Mississippi and Inland Rivers
- Spilling ourselves into the Gulf of Mexico
- And then all the way to our Florida home!
- Phew!
But before we embark on this new and exciting journey Oyster needs to get spiffed up anew and ready to go. We were excited to get back to the boat, and then quickly started working like crazy stripping and varnishing the teakwood anew. Oh, man, do our hands and bodies feel mangled. Talk about feeling like we’re getting too old for this stuff! Enjoy the pics – and don’t forget to keep in touch here all the way from the down-and-dirty preparation to the cool new journey!
