Each year we meet some interesting people and see some unique boats that are partaking the the Great Loop experience. The Great Loop is a cruise route that lets you circumnavigate the eastern US via the Great Lakes, Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, Cumberland, Ten-Tom (KY, TN, AL) river systems, the Gulf of Mexico, the west and east coast Intracoastal Waterway, Hudson River, Erie Canal, and finally back in the Great Lakes.
This year we saw a unique participant and don't know exactly what kind of boat this was but it's definitely a "one design". The bow design was really unique and rumor has it that it was a ferro-cement hull (aka concrete). In addition, it had started in Florida. Enjoy the pictures.
from the Bolger blog:
ReplyDeleteThis AS29 was originally built in Minnesota by Marc Lindgren.
I think it was completed in 2001 and sailed on Minnesota lakes
until my wife and I purchased it in July 2008. The boat was
named Zephyr. While doing our modifications we decided to
rename her Lollygag.
My wife's blog about our loop in 2011:
http://lollygagaroundtheloop.blogspot.com/
Matt