Showing posts with label Crossing Our Wake!. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crossing Our Wake!. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Our Great Loop Stats

Plane 2 Sea crossed her wake on April 4, 2016!

A few Stats from our Loop:

Began 4-19-15
End 4-4-16
89 days underway
50 Weeks
Total statute miles traveled = 5,123 miles

Cruised through and explored 18 States, one Providence (Ontario, Canada), and 3 Great Lakes; Lake Ontario, Lake Huron (and the Georgian Bay), and Lake Michigan.

Crossed our wake at 30.3871N 81.4646W at SM 739.7

Nights at anchor = 16 (not including free city walls, Lock walls, and tying to barge).
# of Anchorage Locations = 8

Longest time underway = 20 hrs. 50 min. Doing the overnight Gulf of Mexico crossing of 200.1 Statute Miles.

For every night at a marina we averaged $.90/ft (including taxes and electricity).
We average $2.79/gal. Diesel (including taxes).

Our average speed was 11 mph (Sometimes we went 25 mph, sometimes we went 5 mph).

Our average fuel burn was 1 gallon/statute mile (this includes 5 min. warm up and cool down each time we moved and 350 generator hours of use).

Total Locks = 108
Total Up = 1,179'8"
Total Down = 1,140.8'
Tallest Lock = Whitten Lock = 84'
Shortest Lock = Mayaca Lock = 8 INCHES
(Excluding Lock 53 and Olstead Lock which were zero and under construction).

Most Eastern point = On the Atlantic Ocean, Off the coast of Atlantic City:40.17.06N 73.56.59W
Most Northern point = near Killarney, Ontario:46.06.4927N 83.37.9633W
Most Western point = Flint Creek, Norfolk Southern RR Bridge, south of Meredosia, IL MM 61.2: 39.41.8N 98.38.78W
Most Southern point = Fort Myers Beach, Florida: 26.45706N 81.8553

Well over 30,000 photos taken.


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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Full Circle! Jacksonville, Florida

Garmin and I got the Gold!! Monday, April 4, 2016

Full Circle! I have completed my dream of completing America's Great Loop, circumnavigating the eastern United States waterways including Canada! 



Garmin's enjoying his last day along his epic journey circumnavigating America's Great Loop!


St. Augustine Lighthouse.


Historic St. Augustine.



The oldest masonry fort in the Continental United States:
Click here:  Castillo de San Marcos



Mission cross of Nombre de Dios in St. Augustine, FL stands 208 feet tall.




Looks like something out of Star Wars!




Jacksonville, Florida. Back to where our journey began less than 12 months ago.











We love our bridge repair guys!


Crossing our wake, right "here" near mile marker 740. We've been at sea too long as we are wearing "Red, Right, Return".


We crossed Cathy and Michael, aboard Trawler Life, as they are underway on Day 1 of their Great Loop journey and we are on the last day of our Great Loop journey! They took our first photo underway of being official Gold Loopers!


Trawler Life begins their year long journey today!


And.....he's done. What a journey!




Similar boat name.


Celebrating our new status as official "Gold Loopers"!


Retiring our very tattered Great Loop White Burgee, "Looper-In-Progress Flag".
AGLCA = America's Great Loop Cruisers Association.


Tossing my torn up "Locking-through" gloves after 108 Locks. We would have held a memorial burning of the gloves ceremony, but this marina has a 'burn ban'.


At port, bow view, Ortega Landing Marina, Jacksonville, Florida.


Garmin enjoying his "Gold Looper Dog" ceremonial Rib-Eye bone!



What a ride!


Our travel map. Each anchor represents our Ports of Call during our 11 month journey circumnavigating America's Great Loop, including Canada.


Our first "Gold Looper Sunset"!