3This is the 2023 updated edition of "The Looper's Companion Guide". It is "post pandemic & post hurricane updated. "This is a huge 8.5 x 11 x 270-pages with full-color Maps & photos. It is the #1 Best-Selling Great Loop book on the market. Just read any of the more than 400 reviews, most 5 Star ratings are by previous Loopers! It is the ultimate Great Loop planning & cruising guidebook. Without doubt it is the most current, most accurate, and most informitive Great Loop Guide you will find anythere in either Book or Blog format. It helps you plan and prepare yourself, your boat, and your budget for this epic adventure. It takes the 'guess work' out of planning your route, and the 'stress work' out of cruising it. It includes planning, preparing, budgeting, boat buying, equipping, and provisioning your boat. Most importantly this 2023 updated version includes Capt. John's "Looping By The Numbers", a complete 140-cruising day itinerary that not only guides you from one safe destination to another, it leaves you at a safe marina or anchorage every evening before dark.
Ever wonder which is farther? The Canada's Trent Severn route or the "all" U.S.A. Erie Canal & Great Lakes route? Capt. John gives you destination to destination distance, fuel range, overhead clearances, controlled water depths and known shoaling issues. He tells you where the best 42 Free Docks are, and he ends each and everyone of your crusing days at a free dock or wall, safe anchorages, or the cleanest most people and pet friendly affordable marina - every single evening in time to get safely settled in before dark.
One reader called it "Confidence in a can!".
Capt. John's famously known for his "More Fun than Fuel" boating philosophy. For those new to cruising long-distance, you get a complete run down on actual cruising costs with cost comparisons on the most popular types & size vessels suitable for cruising the Great Loop. From the most frugal and fuel-efficient boats to the most flamboyant and accommodating vessels, from sail to power, one engine or two, large and small - Capt. John gives you a real heads up on what your cruising costs and Looping expenses might be, both on & off the water. He makes it easy to determine a more accurate budget based on your existing lifestyle, boat type, size and speed.
This is not about someone else's journey around the Great Loop. It is about "YOUR" adventure around the Great Loop, and Capt. John provdes all the information you want and need to make this voyage safely, comfortably, confidently, and best of all, affordably. You won't just be Okay with the purchased of this book, you will be thrilled!