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What an awesome day on the water! Lake Okeechobee is huge. We left Roland Martin Marina late (~8am). All the fishermen were gone well before day light. Motoring carefully across this shallow (~8-10′) lake took a couple of hours but it was beautiful. Then we were back in the St Lucie Canal headed toward Stuart.Continue reading “Lake Okeechobee to Port St Lucie”

Lets catch up with a quick time log, after living aboard for the month of January, we left our home port in Bradenton on Feb. 1st to attend a “Looper Gathering” at Apollo Beach. The next day we left for Sarasota Bay and stayed at Marina Jack for almost 2 weeks (sometimes in a slipContinue reading “It’s been >2 weeks already?”

Today was the official start of the Great Loop — we got our prop repaired after a week of waiting, and set out from Sarasota Bay to Venice, Florida. We had a great run up the inter-coastal waterway today. We did one bridge raising, and one swinging bridge opening. The Bridge raise was in aContinue reading “Day 1 – Finally Underway”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is our first post on this new blog. We’re just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when we post new updates. Click here to learn about America’s Great Loop

Larry and Mary have started the grand adventure, America’s Great Loop. As we traveled the 6,000 mile journey, we started a blog to share our adventure with others, and now that has become this published journal as a record of the trip highlights. Some background….Originally from Tennessee (Larry) and Nevada (Mary), we now call FloridaContinue reading “The Bailey’s (Larry and Mary)”