Six thousand miles, and we will meet you anywhere on it.
The Great Loop is a continuous circular boating route through the eastern United States and part of Canada, made up of natural and man-made waterways. If you are anywhere along it, the captain and crew can come to you and help you move your boat home.
Boaters typically run the circuit counterclockwise, which keeps the difficult river currents behind them rather than on the nose. Depending on the route chosen through each section, the full loop measures somewhere between 5,200 and 6,000 miles.
Very few people run the whole thing in one season, and that is where deliveries come in. A leg gets abandoned because of weather, a season runs out, a boat is bought mid-loop, or the schedule simply stops cooperating — and the boat needs to be somewhere it is not. We pick up the leg you cannot run.
Because the route strings together so many different kinds of water, the crew and the planning change from section to section: locks and commercial traffic on the rivers, open-water passages on the Gulf and the Atlantic, bridge schedules on the Intracoastal, and canal systems with their own hours and clearances in New York.
Locks set the pace on the river sections of the Loop.
The circuit
What the route strings together
Great Lakes and the New York canals
Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, linked south and east by the New York Canal System and the Hudson River.
The Atlantic side
The Atlantic Ocean and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, from the northeast down the seaboard to Florida.
Florida and the Keys
Around the peninsula, or straight across it on the Okeechobee Waterway if your air draft allows.
The Gulf
The Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway west to the Mississippi.
The inland rivers
The Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland and Illinois systems, carrying you back north to the Lakes.
