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Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9780966914054 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0966914058 Label: Raven Cove Publishing Manufacturer: Raven Cove Publishing Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: November 30, 2007 Publisher: Raven Cove Publishing Studio: Raven Cove Publishing Editorial Review: Product Description: Great Loop Side Trips: 20 Cruising Adventures on Eastern North America's Waterways is the sequel to the authors' award-winning bestseller, Honey, Let's Get a Boat... : A Cruising Adventure of America's Great Loop. The first book was the story of their Great Loop Cruise of 6300 miles around Eastern North America known as the Great Loop or Great Circle Cruise. The Great Loop is the Interstate; the intersecting waterways are the Blue Highways-- the rivers, lakes and canals that flow into the main stream. Every spring and fall for the last several years the authors hitched up their 25-foot trailerable boat to the pickup and hauled it to places they'd never been before. Written and published in the style of Honey, Let's Get a Boat..., Great Loop Side Trips continues the adventures of discovering Eastern North America from the water's edge. Information on charts, guidebooks, marinas and launch ramps needed to cruise these Side Trips is included. Side Trips cruised are the St. Johns River, Potomac and Patuxant Rivers, Erie Canal, Little Triangle Loop, Lachine Canal, St. Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers, North Channel's North Shore, Wisconsin's Door Peninsula, Upper Mississippi River, Arkansas River, Ohio River and tributaries including the Monongahela, Allegheny and Great Kanawha Rivers, the Cumberland River, Tennessee River and tributaries, Upper Black Warrior River and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway from Mobile to Mexico. Contributing writers include stories of passages on Lake Superior, Lake Michigan's Inland Waterway and an excursion into the Finger Lakes off the Erie Canal. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great Loop Side Trips: 20 Cruising Adventures After reading the first book about the Great Loop, I decided to give this book a try. It is a fairly good book with stories of how the Stobs went about traveling with a smaller boat and moving it back and forth for small water adventures. The places that they went are places that I would never go and that made the book interesting. It would be a helpful book to those wishing to make trips up small river systems and what to do if something happened to the boat, trailer or themselves. The book is not ... Read More Rating:  - Good introduction to the Great LoopI am hoping to do the Great Loop over the next few years, but did not have much of an idea of what was there. This book gave me a good idea of the diversity of adventures possible. I am sure it will not replace a proper cruising guide, though. Rating: - Great Loops Side TripsIt was the dependable, and amusing information I expected. We will be using this book when we beging our own side trips this summer. It was helpfull to have the detailes about where to get slips, fuel and a pumpout. Also information about what to expect on the rivers as far as water conditions and locks. |
