The Great Loop Goes Global: Featured in Yachting World

Yachting World featured the Great Loop and used some of my husband’s best pictures for this gorgeous spreads!

When we started researching America’s Great Loop, it felt like a uniquely American adventure.

Locks. Rivers. The Great Lakes. The ICW. A strange and wonderful circular route that somehow connects it all.

So seeing the Loop featured in Yachting World — a publication with a truly international readership — felt significant.

The article, written by Janneke Kuysters and Wietze van der Laan, explores cruising options beyond the Caribbean and includes a section on the Great Loop, highlighting both motorboats and sailing yachts. They interviewed us about completing the Loop aboard our Beneteau 423, Fika, with our kids and while working remotely.

What I especially appreciate is that the article places the Loop in a broader cruising context (alongside Mexico, the Bahamas, and the U.S. East Coast), showing that this route isn’t just a retirement trip or a trawler-only path. It’s a viable, adventurous option for sailors.

They even addressed the big questions sailors tend to ask:

• What about mast height?

• What about draft limits?

• Is it worth all the motoring?

• Can you really do it in a sailboat?

(You can. We did.)

The article features interviews from a number of sailors cruising along the East Coast from Mexico up to the far ends of North America, with the Great Loop a prominent topic.

The piece also highlights the camaraderie of Loopers and the Docktails culture... something that’s hard to explain until you experience it.

One of the things I love most about sharing our story in places like Yachting World is that it expands the conversation. The Loop becomes less of a niche insider route and more of a legitimate cruising option on the global map.

And again, it comes back to the story.

When people see a real family doing this — working, homeschooling, navigating locks, unstepping and resteping a mast — it moves the idea from “interesting” to “possible.”

If you’d like to read the full article, you can find it here: Cruising the Great Loop

I was able to share my story with two cruising magazines recently: Yachting World’s January 2026 edition and the previous month’s edition of Soundings magazine.

And if you’re dreaming about your own version of this adventure — whether it’s the Loop or something entirely different — consider this your reminder:

Your story might be the one that makes it possible for someone else.