Looped In – Small Boat, Big Journey

What is The Great American Loop?

updated on January 20, 2021April 8, 2012By Ellen Swedberg

According to the information on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Loop - the Loop looks like this And is defined as The circumnavigation of Eastern North America by water is known as The Great Loop. Also…

Northern Neck waters – 2025

updated on January 11, 2026January 9, 2026By Ellen Swedberg

We have been enjoying getting to know the Chesapeake by land and by sea. The history of the Northern Neck and of Virginia is our new passion. But as we…

Delmarva to Virginia

on July 3, 2024July 3, 2024By Ellen Swedberg

Delmarva is the Peninsula between the Delaware and the Chesapeake Bays. We have been traveling fast. In trawler language that means we have been traveling more than our usual 35-40…

New York and New Jersey

on June 28, 2024June 28, 2024By Ellen Swedberg

We left Great Kills Yacht Club early in the morning to get ahead of any offshore winds. I had to post a photo of Frank and Sals, Staten Island where…

Surfing down the Hudson

on June 22, 2024June 22, 2024By Ellen Swedberg

What a difference a year makes, same heatwave but clear skies. We were going with the current this time and it was almost as if the boat could feel our…

Goodbye Erie for now

on June 19, 2024June 19, 2024By Ellen Swedberg

As we were leaving Little Falls, Maria from MV Do it Now took drone photos of us Locking through the Guillotine Lock 17 Today was a big locking day, on…

A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To Canada

on June 15, 2024June 15, 2024By Ellen Swedberg

Doing the Loop in sections, three to six months at a time has worked for us since we started in 2021 and sections gave us the ability to see the…

Back to the dirt house

updated on September 26, 2023September 26, 2023By Ellen Swedberg

We traveled on the boat from May to the end of August on this section of the loop, heading up to New England and ending the Leg at the northern…

“Bedford Falls” and homeward bound

on August 15, 2023August 15, 2023By Ellen Swedberg

As we worked our way back East, we had one more side trip. We turned South off the Erie Canal and took the Cayuga Seneca Canal to Seneca Falls, another…

The Bridges of the Western Erie ❤️

on August 12, 2023August 12, 2023By Ellen Swedberg

We are working our way back East on the “Easy” Canal and enjoying the relaxing sights alone. We went back to Medina, Spencerport, Fairport, and Newark. In the Western section…

Lockport and Medina

updated on September 6, 2023August 4, 2023By Ellen Swedberg

We had read that Lockport is a great place to visit but there aren’t good places to stay overnight. Several people we met told us they had done it and…