Ok Guys "Bucket list Trips or Cruises"

Another for the loop. But I'm getting tired of waiting for the right time. I may just start doing it and take a few years shuttling back and forth to the boat.
 
Converse48 said:
....Maybe we should start a loop thread? (Only kidding, Alex)

I plan to do the "side trip" through Lake Champlain up to Montreal and down through the Thousand Islands.
Say what you want about the sneaker, but it is a perfect loop boat. Low profile, climate controlled helm on one level, great living spaces, can get up and go when/if we need to, but also can run very efficiently at hull speed.

After the loop I hope to buy a real boat (lol, a 55' Fleming) and then will do the Bahamas and maybe further south through the Caribbean.
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Tim,

Granted, it's way too early for me as well as some other folks doing the loop now, but I wanted to start it with "Snow Birds Migration to FL" thread and do the shirt term goals first. That sounds more realistic.

You're right, sneaker is a unique model but I've heard number of stories where people choose it for doing the loop.

55' Flemming is on my list of "real" boats, as you call it....:grin:
 
Pack66Dad said:
Finished one "bucket list" trip last year, Princess Louisa. Next year, Desolation Sound and the Broughton Archipelago.
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You will love it up in Desolation Sound. Just make sure that you get to see more than just Prideaux Haven. We have been going up there (and the southern Gulf islands) every year for the last 5 years. We go for 3 weeks at a time and every year we discover a new place to go to.
 
Great Loop for sure, if I can get the houses out of the toilet value wise, sell everything and get a 40-50 trawler and move aboard for 5-6 yrs. and do the Loop and wherever else seems interesting.
 
My bucket list cruise is to touch all five Great Lakes on a trip. From Lake Michigan up the St. Marys through the Soo Locks and a tour past the Pictured Rocks to Munising. Then return through the locks proceeding east across the North Channel and then south along Georgian Bay. Through the Trent Severn into Lake Ontario and a side trip to Montreal. From there, into the Erie Canal and back through Lake Erie to Detroit, Lake St Clair and the river to Lake Huron. Back north along the Michigan coast to my home port.
 
I want to leave the Severn head north up the Chesapeake head thru the Narrows towards St. Michaels and down lower Eastern Bay and then North back home. Should take about 5-6 hours.... :) Gotta start somewhere..
 
Current boat, down the coast to Southern California.
Next boat, Mexico and up to the San Juan Islands
Final boat, all over the Carribean.

Oh, and a trip back East to run a new 65 up the coast with a certain captain!
 
Would like to do the Great Loop over about a 1 yr period ... nice and slooooow. There is just so many great places to spend time along the way. Hopeful to plan this in about 5 years or so, my son will be finished college and (hopefully) settled.

Shorter term: The North channel; Point Pelee through Lake Ont & Erie; and a loop down the St. Lawrence - east coast to NYC- up the Hudson through Lake Champlain and back to the St. Lawrence.
 
Westie said:
You will love it up in Desolation Sound. Just make sure that you get to see more than just Prideaux Haven. We have been going up there (and the southern Gulf islands) every year for the last 5 years. We go for 3 weeks at a time and every year we discover a new place to go to.
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Our plan is to go to Desolation then loop up and around to Big Bay and all points in between, then going to Campbell River. From Campbell River head up Johnstone strait to the Broughtons.
 
Pack66Dad said:
Our plan is to go to Desolation then loop up and around to Big Bay and all points in between, then going to Campbell River. From Campbell River head up Johnstone strait to the Broughtons.
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If you mean Big Bay on Stuart island why not continue north of the Thurlow Islands and connect to Johnstone strait at Hardwicke Island? On the way back you could take discovery passage to Campbell River. Even spending a week or two in Desolation sound is not enough.

By the way I hope you have radar as you will need it if you venture up north of desolation sound.
 
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Play dough I'm there right with you but when in superior I want to go to Island Royale see some Moses , cause that's on my wife's bucket list (seeing a moose in the wild) . Maybe visit northern canada while in superior ....... Then head to the North Channel all the while recording the trip on a gopro or my video camera and digital 35mm ..... Pictures are awesome and Forever.
 
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boltman said:
Play dough I'm there right with you but when in superior I want to go to Island Royale see some Moses , cause that's on my wife's bucket list (seeing a moose in the wild) . Maybe visit northern canada while in superior ....... Then head to the North Channel all the while recording the trip on a gopro or my video camera and digital 35mm ..... Pictures are awesome and Forever.
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People that have done the Loop will chuckle, but I'm intimidated by the Soo Locks which may keep me out of Superior. That's quite a trek all the way to Isle Royale so I wouldn't venture that far west. I've been 10' from a moose in a canoe so that box is checked. Retirement is the end of this year so the cruise is anticipated to occur in 2015. I plan to start out and continue until I've had enough or complete the adventure.
 
10 feet from a bull moose and the Soo locks scare you.... Come on man !!!! Hahaha you'll be fine


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Great Lakes Loop thru the Trent-Severn is our next big trip we're planning.
Hope to do the Great Loop upon retirement as a liveaboard. (8yrs)
 
I'm going to follow Lake Superior around. I want to be able to stop, explore, hangout. It could be done in the 280DA with it's limited range but I plan to have a different boat to minimize the effects of fuel management on what I want to do. After that the North Channel, Georgian Bay and north 1/3 of Lake Michigan.
 
Starting in April 2016, the Admiral and I will be on our way to the Inside Passage, Gulf of Alaska and Prince William Sound. Not all at once, it will take multipule summers. Then for the winters we can stay in Puget Sound or head south back to the Columbia, or head further south to Mexico. It is called retirement!!!!
 
Lake Michigan to Florida via the mississippi for retirement hopefully in the next 2 years
 
Bass king??? Is that what it's called... Retirement , I call that enjoyment Damn I envy you , I'd just like to take a month off and return back to the working dead after a wonderful trip!!!

Woody, that 280 won't make the trip in Lake Superior???? Seems the perfect boat for that , cause they don't have a lot of marinas for the big boats . Marquette is big and then swing up to copper harbor , what a beautiful marina.... Plan for fuel stops and you'll be fine ..
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boltman said:
Bass king??? Is that what it's called... Retirement , I call that enjoyment Damn I envy you , I'd just like to take a month off and return back to the working dead after a wonderful trip!!!

Woody, that 280 won't make the trip in Lake Superior???? Seems the perfect boat for that , cause they don't have a lot of marinas for the big boats . Marquette is big and then swing up to copper harbor , what a beautiful marina.... Plan for fuel stops and you'll be fine ..
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I keep the boat in Houghton. We pretty much have everything explored from Marquette, the Keweenaw Peninsula, to west and the Apostle Islands and Isle Royale. The places you mention are regular runs for us. What I want to do is tour the whole lake, follow it around, explore the 2,900mi of shoreline. Yes it could be done in the 280 but it only has 95gal of useable fuel. I like to keep a reserve. If I find a place I want to hang out at and explore for a couple days fuel could become a limiting factor.
 
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