Peter Frank is spending the next year canoeing what's called the Great Loop around the eastern United States and part of Canada. The 9,700km circuit, normally done by motorized craft, takes in the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Jib and Teresa Davidson navigate their way out of Port 32 Marina in Jacksonville during a trip in April. The couple are among the hundreds of boaters who have completed the Great Loop in recent years.

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 ...

A 23-year-old Eagle Scout is sailing 6,000 miles across the U.S. and Canada, tackling the Great Loop route in an unmotorized canoe. Starting in June from Escanaba, Michigan, Peter Frank has paddled ...

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.

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 ...