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.

The Bettendorf natives recently completed America’s Great Loop, a roughly 6,000-mile boating route that circles the eastern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

Evan and Karly Nietzel both grew up on the muddy banks of the Mississippi River in Bettendorf. Fishing, water skiing, tubing, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Newport resident Joe Rooney calls it "the experience of a lifetime" – a 6,800-mile boat trip around the Great Loop, which took him from Florida up the Intracoastal Waterway through New York City and ...

The "Great Loop," a voyage traveling the eastern seaboard, the Erie Canal, the Great Lakes, down the river systems to the Gulf of Mexico and back to the starting point, attracts adventurous boaters.

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 ...