The Looper's Companion Guide: Cruising America's Great Loop

By Capt John Wright

Book Overview

This is the 2023 updated edition of "The Looper's Companion Guide". This is a huge 8.5 x 11 x 300-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. It helps you plan and prepare yourself, your boat, and your budget for this epic adventure. It takes the 'guess work' out of planning it, 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.
Cruising the Great Loop doesn't get any easier or safer than this. Just follow in Capt. John's wake through Canada or the all U.S.A. route to over 140 amazing destinations, and from one incredible destination to the next. Doing so, you will know exactly what to expect all along the way. It includes every cruising day's distance, fuel range, overhead clearances, controlled water depths and known shoaling issues. It also reveals where the free docks & walls are, safe anchorages, and the cleanest most people and pet friendly affordable marinas.
One reader called it "Confidence in a can!".
Capt. John's famously known for his "More Fun than Fuel" boating philosophy, guides you to best and most affordable boater friendly marinas favoring those with such amenities as a courtesy car or free shuttle, nearby restaurants and interesting places to visit within easy walking distance. He gives you each cruising day's distance, mile markers, fuel range, bridge heights, controlled depths and known depth issues, and waypoints. 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.
You will have to purchase every Great Loop book on the market, to get all the information contained in this one. This is not about someone's journey around the Great Loop. This is about "how you" can make this epic adventure safely, comfortably and confidently. You won't just be Okay with the purchased of this book, you will be thrilled!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1721851550
• ISBN13: 9781721851553
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.4" x 10.9"