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Honey, Let's Get a Boat... A Cruising Adventure of America's Great Loop
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About Honey, Let's Get A Boat... A Cruising Adventure Of
Product Description This is the story of a couple's travels on a forty-foot trawler cruising 6300 miles and 145 locks around the eastern part of North America known as America's Great Loop or the Great Circle Cruise. Their nautical ineptitude is evident from the beginning, but pulling from their personal and collective strengths, the authors overcome doubt, a lack of experience, and real and imagined horrors. The odyssey is told the way life hands out its adventures -- sometimes humorously, sometimes tragically, but always memorably. The writing is light and appealing, but there is a serious strain running through the book for those who relish history and descriptions of the landscape. Astute and attentive to detail, they chronicled events and kept an account of expenses, equipment and charting. As a result, the appendix/guidebook is worth the price of the book for anyone interested in planning their cruise. Topics include necessary charts and guidebooks, information on locks, setting an itinerary, resource addresses and websites, details on equipment and the best place to be educated about boating. The book has full-color inserts with black and white photographs interspersed throughout. Review Heres the perfect gift book...filled with vital travel information, touching and often funny anecdotes... a masterfully written tale. -- Power & Motoryacht, October 2002 Its the pulling-no-punches sentiments that make (this book) such a good read and a wealth of information. -- BoatU.S. Magazine, September 2001 About the Author Ron Stob was a travel writer and photographer for the San Luis Obispo County (California) Telegram-Tribune from 1984 through 1998, taking readers on hikes, river-rafting excursions and motor trips along the back roads in search of the obscure and unusual. He has written books on travel from Santa Barbara to Big Sur Back Roads of the Central Coast, More Back Roads of the Central Coast and Exploring San Luis Obispo and Nearby Coastal Areas. He and his wife, Eva, write and photograph for a variety of publications, including Heartland Boating, Highways, Power and Motoryacht, Latitudes & Attitudes, Trailer Boats Magazine, Go Boating, Wildlife Conservation and Bluegrass Unlimited. Their photographs often appear on magazine covers. The Stobs have traveled throughout all 50 of the United States and abroad. Together, they learned about boats and cruised for nearly a year aboard their forty-foot trawler, Dream OGenie. In August 1999, they formed Americas Great Loop Cruisers Association, a network of boaters who cruise or dream of cruising the coastal and inland waterways of the Great Loop, on the web at greatloop.com. The membership has grown to include cruisers from nearly every state as well as foreign countries. AGLCA products include newsletters, map, burgee, shirts and caps. Ron and Eva reside with Canoe, their cat, along the shores of the Little Tennessee River on Tellico Lake in the hills of East Tennessee. They travel and discover Americas scenic areas in their 5th-wheel travel trailer, and explore the inland waterways in their trailerable cruiser, Lil Looper.
