Our Great Loop Stats

Written By Andy & Darth Castan

We have been home for a month now. Time has flown by and we are settling into the creature comforts of being home. This last entry will be some overall statistics of our trip. Our daughter Jamie interviewed me this week as a guest on Anglers Unlimited / Fishing in the San Juans Islands & Beyond. There is a Facebook page and Anglers Unlimited can be found on YouTube. The link below is the interview on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9DnsepGPRs&t

Thank you all again for following us on our loop!

Karla and Paul from Current Plan mapped their loop with sticky dots along their way noting when they stopped overnight/s.  Karla sent us a batch of dots so we could use them on our map.  Our map key--the dots represent at least one night stay:

Green - 87 Marinas--we stayed more than one night in some

Blue - 3 Mooring Balls

Pink - 35 Anchorages

Black - 33 Wall or dock to tie up to without electric/water

Departed home: 09/07/2023 arriving in Peoria, IL 09/11/2023 Total miles: 2,291

Arrived home from Peoria: 09/02/2024 Total miles: 2,085

  • Total truck & trailer miles: 4,376

  • States on trip East: Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois

  • States on trip West: Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington

Dropped the lines from Peoria Boat Club on 09/14/2023 - looped - Arrived back to Peoria Boat Club 08/26/2024

  • Total Nautical Miles on the loop: 5,658 converted to regular miles: 6,511

  • Fuel: 2,200 gallons Cost: $9,570

Number of states cruised through: 17

  • Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin

Number of Canadian Provinces: 1

  • Ontario

Inland River Locks

  • 10 locks going up total 478feet

  • 29 locks going down total 927feet

Albany, NY & Erie Canal from Waterford, NY to Oswego, NY.

  • 21 locks going up

  • 28 locks going down (this includes helping a dear looper friend locking down 18 locks back to Albany)

Trent-Severn Waterway - Ontario

  • 34 locks going up

  • 10 locks going down

Total locks: 65 locks up & 67 locks down = 132

Total ice cream cones: never enough : )

Andy & Darth Castan
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