Cutwater28GG":1ua90c5j said:
as a west coaster, can folks share what makes the loop fun to do?
The attraction of the loop to me is I like to cruise and go places. The loop has all kinds of water, views, weather, food, different towns, states, countries. Fresh water, salt water. Rivers, bays, sounds, canals, open water. There are things to do, people to meet, places to go.
I am doing the loop in sections, the very reason I have a trailerable boat. The majority of loopers have boats 39'-60'. Some are floating condos. Some of the big boats get parked for a few weeks to a few months while the owners travel home once or twice during their loop. I take my boat with me. Many loopers are on their boat the whole year +/- it takes.
I have always done trips-- backpacking, canoeing, airplanes. It is just in my DNA. When I was 10 years old, I got a gas station road map and followed with my finger along the entire Potomac River, which ran close to my home in Hagerstown, Maryland, for its full length, from the mountains to the Chesapeake Bay, dreaming of going down it on a raft. Decades later, I canoed 165 miles of the Potomac, in sections, from the mountains to Harper's Ferry. When I get to the Chesapeake Bay section of the loop, I will cruise up the Potomac to Washington, D.C.