Tortugas Bound: Exploring Florida’s Last Piece of Wilderness
May 24, 2021
For the best snorkeling in the US, plus a great old fort, look no further than the Dry Tortugas.
For the best snorkeling in the US, plus a great old fort, look no further than the Dry Tortugas.
You can spend months exploring these approximately 800 islets. Some boaters are so enchanted, they never leave.
The Dry Torugas with its shallow waters, combined with increasing traffic, strong currents, and numerous hurricanes, became known as a “ship trap.”
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When city leaders cracked down on Spring Break back in 1985, it wasn’t that they wanted students to stay away forever. Come back, they said,
The BP oil spill made this a sad year for Gulf Coast inhabitants. Although no oil came ashore anywhere near my hometown region of Tampa
We were headed south to the Keys for the winter when we got the call. “We’ve bought the boat,” Deb said, almost like she couldn’t
We can spend years planning for a bucket-list trip and then life gets in the way. Go now.
Splashing later this year.
Karly and Evan Nietzel—aka YouTube’s @Navigating Nietzels—tailored their careers for remote work after buying a trawler, moving onboard and completing the Great Loop. Along with their pup, Ripley, they’re just getting started.
This aluminum vessel’s throwback design belies its modern systems, all installed for a Great Loop cruise.
The three-stateroom, semidisplacement model has a range of power options and a low air draft.
A solar-power system on our classic trawler lets us spend time moored or anchored with more than enough juice to meet our energy needs.
America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association has been helping boaters complete the ultimate voyage for a quarter century.
The steel-hull Nightfall, designed by William Garden, connects generations of this family through a love of cruising.
Larry Graf, the founder, designer and lead engineer of Aspen Power Catamarans, talks about Aspen’s proa hull designs and adventure cruising on his own creations from the Arctic to the Sea of Cortez.
With her vertical bow, reverse raked windshield and indoor-outdoor living space, the Galeon 430 EXP defies categorization.
