Author: Elliot Schoenfeld

After 2 days waiting for weather to blow over, we decided to spend the last day on land and check out the Marathon Turtle Hospital. This hospital specializes in rehabilitation, education, and research and you can learn more or even adopt a turtle at this link: https://www.turtlehospital.org/ Afterwards we close out Marathon at a classic…

Our plan for the day was originally to knock out some boat chores like Groceries, laundry, propane, etc and then cruise to our “hurricane hole” to ride out these winter winds! A combination of our exhaustion from getting back to filming (leading to a late start) coinciding with the weather turning earlier than forecasted made…

After a long first day on the Loop we pulled up the anchor from a calm nights sleep and left Newfound Harbor. With a split cruise in store for today, we are stopping by the TOP marina in the Florida Keys before arriving at our anchorage for the evening at Boot Key Harbor, Marathon.

Thank you to all of YOU for your support! Let’s get it started! Time to begin America’s Great Loop! After a 9 month hiatus, we are back at it folks. We are starting in Key West, Florida – the southernmost tip of the contiguous United States. We tour Key West before we hop back in…

Back when we had a car, a different life ago, I did the only real maintenance I knew and needed to do. Oil Changes… Now that we currently live on a boat, I’ve had to completely re-learn what it means to have our systems in order! As you know, it is much more difficult to…

If you had asked us 2 years ago, if we would ever own a boat – we would have both replied, “never”. I guess you should never say never and due to covid + life changes, we pivoted to Boat life! We had practically 0 experience when it came to boating as well although Jennifer…

Today we leave our anchorage where we held out some foul weather yesterday. We highly recommend Mile Hammock Bay if you need a quiet place to spend a couple nights! We left just after sunrise after Elliot took Ollie out for a walk. Unfortunately, our dinghy engine is still the bane of our existence. Due…

We’re switching it up today and having our first retrospective! We realize that at different stages of the loop, boaters will have different advice. The points we highlight now, after one month will undoubtedly be different than our highlights after a full year or even a lifetime! Hope you enjoy! If you would like a…

Today on America’s Great Loop we have a long 10 hour cruise from Carolina Beach to Mile Hammock Bay. Our first challenge is leaving the tough dock at Carolina Beach Municipal Marina. Normally this wouldn’t have been too much of a challenge, but there were a couple of items that made this more difficult. Luckily…

Today we leave South Carolina and head into our 4th state up the East Coast – North Carolina! What should have been a nice easy day was anything but as shortly after leaving our anchorage in Calabash River, our wheel fell off. I (Elliot) was navigating from our flybridge when I shifted to port in…