Webinar Hosts Jessica Grimm, Sailing Specialist with Navionics, has been sailing and boating for most of her life. She and her husband spent a year in the Bahamas and Caribbean living on their sailboat and are currently planning their next “big trip” with their 1 year old son.

Kim Russo, Executive Director of America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association. As the driving force behind AGLCA, Kim maintains and directs the planning and events associated with keeping "loopers" informed and up to date.

Ed Tillett, GM / Editor-in-Chief of Waterway Guide Media. Sailor, fisherman, author and multimedia producer, his career spans 40 years of broadcast, instructional design and publishing. Owner of a classic 1947 yacht, he and his wife Anne live in eastern Virginia along the Rappahannock River.

Agenda What is America’s Great Loop?

Who should consider traveling the Loop?

What to expect?

How to prepare?

Possible routes?

What is America’s Great Loop?

Intracoastal Waterway

What is America’s Great Loop?

Who Should Undertake the Great Loop?

Who Should Undertake the Great Loop?

What to Expect

How to Prepare

How to Prepare

How to Prepare

Navigation and Seamanship

Navigation and Seamanship

Electronics

Information Resources

Information Resources

Information Resources

Miscellaneous Equipment

Safety and Health

In the Galley and On Board

In the Galley and On Board

Pets

Communications

Communications

Clothing and Gear

Boat Maintenance and Repairs

Boat Maintenance and Repairs

Boat Maintenance and Repairs

FAQs

FAQs

your

FAQs

FAQs

The Route(s) & Side Trips

Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure...

Patience is not a virtue - it's a necessity...

If the Admiral ain't happy, ain't nobody happy...

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Thank You for Attending! More Questions? Reach us at:

Jessica Grimm: jgrimm@navionics.com

Ed Tillett: Waterway Guide Media

Kim Russo: AGLCA Kim Russo: AGLCA

Ed Tillett: Waterway Guide Media

The Route(s) & Side Trips

Great Loop Waterways

•! TennTom

Great Loop Waterways

•! TennTom •! Gulf ICW

Great Loop Waterways

•! TennTom •! Gulf ICW •! Atlantic ICW

Great Loop Waterways

•! TennTom •! Gulf ICW •! Atlantic ICW •! Chesapeake, NJ, Hudson

River

Great Loop Waterways

•! Erie Canal

•! If staying in U.S. •! 15-foot clearance

•! Lake Erie •! Lake Huron

Great Loop Waterways

•! Entering Canada

•! Erie Canal to Oswego Canal to Kingston •! 19 foot clearance

Great Loop Waterways

•! Entering Canada

•! Erie Canal to Oswego Canal to Kingston •! 19 foot clearance

•! “Triangle” •! Lake Champlain,

Richelieu, St. Lawrence, Rideau

•! 17 foot clearance

Great Loop Waterways

•! Trent Severn Waterway •! Georgian Bay •! North Channel •! Lake Huron

Great Loop Waterways

•! Trent Severn Waterway •! Georgian Bay •! North Channel •! Lake Huron •! Lake Michigan

Great Loop Waterways

•! Trent Severn Waterway •! Georgian Bay •! North Channel •! Lake Huron •! Lake Michigan •! Illinois River

Great Loop Waterways

•! Trent Severn Waterway •! Georgian Bay •! North Channel •! Lake Huron •! Lake Michigan •! Illinois River •! Mississippi River

Great Loop Waterways

•! Trent Severn Waterway •! Georgian Bay •! North Channel •! Lake Huron •! Lake Michigan •! Illinois River •! Mississippi River •! Ohio River

Great Loop Waterways

•! Trent Severn Waterway •! Georgian Bay •! North Channel •! Lake Huron •! Lake Michigan •! Illinois River •! Mississippi River •! Ohio River •! Tennessee River

Questions Submitted Feedback/ Questions to Ask: How much will it cost? What is the maximum draft and bridge clearance? My question is what is the record for the fastest loop? Good places to dock - (conversely ) places to avoid. Hazards ("This bay is notorious for XYZ".) Places to spend extra time. Challenges. Resources...(aka https://www.greatloop.org/) Will A Tampa Girl go on a Great Loop? Places of interest, ie museums, cultural and historical attractions, costs involved, places and areas to re-provision, etc How many fishing license and their cost? I would focus on resources (i.e. the above websites) and etiquette (i.e. passing large ships, barges, other pleasure craft, etc) What side trips (such as Lake Superior) would you do? Which route did you take (number of options)? If you did it again, what stops would you do again versus avoid? Where would you spend more time, why? What was your percentage of anchoring versus marinas? Docks and good stops Max boat height and max draw