Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Loop Challenge is complete, but the mission continues. Help turn this record-setting journey into life-changing support ...

Boating along the Erie Canal, part of the Great Loop (image courtesy of Gladys L. Buzzell). The Great Loop is a continuous waterway that recreational mariners can travel that includes part of the ...

On September 18, 2026, Captains Dustin Kidd and March Crutcher completed the fastest documented Great Loop in history: 11 days, 21 hours and 51 minutes elapsed time aboard a Highfield Sport 800 RIB.

The crew continues its Great Loop journey on the Erie Canal, adjusts the boat’s shaft packing, and heads toward Lock 17 in 40 ...

Retirement has taken Larry and April Smith in circles—with no end in sight. Twice these avid boaters have completed the Great Loop, a roughly 6,000-mile journey by water that circumnavigates the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Youens, a 71-year-old adventurer from Texas, landed in Pensacola Thursday night after becoming the fastest person to ...

The Great Loop represents one of boating’s most ambitious journeys, a continuous waterway route circumnavigating the eastern portion of North America. Recently, Boating Magazine launched a captivating ...

That’s the goal for Florida fishing guide Capt. Scott “Red” Flowers and two friends, who hope to navigate some of the country’s most iconic waterways in record time. “Everything Mother Nature has got ...

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, ...

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, ...