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HereÂ’s the perfect gift book...filled with vital travel information, touching and often funny anecdotes... a masterfully written tale. -- Power & Motoryacht, October 2002ItÂ’s the pulling-no-punches sentiments that make (this book) such a good read and a wealth of information. --BoatU.S. Magazine, September 2001
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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 Stob’s 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 O’Genie. In August 1999, they formed America’s 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 America’s scenic areas in their 5th-wheel travel trailer, and explore the inland waterways in their trailerable cruiser, Li’l Looper.
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Product details
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Raven Cove Publishing; Revised - 2010 Printing edition (June 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0966914031
ISBN-13: 978-0966914030
Product Dimensions:
6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
85 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#172,062 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I bought this book hoping for it to be a good read for my wife. My idea was to get a good non-technical view of the Great Loop experience and how wonderful it might be to do ourselves in several years. I wanted to read it first, and I'm sure glad I did. I can't see how anyone would find this book anything other than depressing. It starts with some pretty major, and unexpected, repairs being required shortly after purchasing the boat. I was fine with that, a little reality check regarding possible unplanned and expensive maintenance for any boat. Unfortunately, it really doesn't get better as it goes on. There is good information to be found, but every chapter is somewhat gloomy. The author doesn't seem to have even enjoyed the trip. The closing paragraphs of the book aren't even upbeat. A couple times through the book he breaks the gloom suddenly and declares that he wants to live in whatever location they are in, but that is right after describing the travel legs as pretty much miserable. I could go on agreeing with other reviews about the religious overtones and condescending racial attitudes, but you can read that yourselves.Amazingly, this book actually diminished my supernova like fire of a desire to do this trip. I think I'll recover, but I'd be glad to have never picked this up in the first place. Even more amazingly, I've discovered that this book was actually written by the same people who created the AGLCA. So somehow they did this trip, immediately sold their boat, wrote a book that made it sound pretty mediocre or even unpleasant, and then went on to found an association that celebrates that very same trip.
I bought and read the original in 1999 and must admit, it did give me the fever and I love that about the book. I have been on a 15 year quest to get ready to do the loop and have been reading, researching, and googling everything I can about it. I bought this as it stated it was revised in 2010. I saw very little change between the years and in fact, was disappointed that much of the material is well outdated, including cost figures and even Marina's that are now closed.The cover indicates there is a guidebook included - did I miss something? I'm still looking for itIt reads a lot like someone's travel log but there are some references they make to certain places that are noteworthy to be referenced in my future cruising guides.I think the author's attempt of humor is sometimes futile and they should have left their political and personnel opinions on the chart table. They were somewhat negative toward the end and in fact sounded like they couldn't wait for it to be over - not at all inspiring. In fact, sold their boat when the loop was completed.If you are interested in doing the loop it is a decent source to wet your appetite but as far as buying and outfitting you first boat, I highly recommend "Living Aboard A Boat" written by Mark Nicholas as a very good place to start.
My husband is very interested in cruising The Great Loop so we both read this iconic book to see what to expect. The book is interesting and recounts the Stob's year long odyssey describing ports and towns visited, problems encountered along the way, scary moments and fun times. The appendix is filled with tons of pertinent information such as planning your itinerary, recommended guidebooks, where to take boater education classes, budgets, choosing and outfitting a boat, etc. We are still researching whether we will attempt the loop, but this is the perfect first book to read on the subject of looping.
Cute book! My husband, two sons, our cat, and I circumnavigated the Caribbean several years ago. Now my husband and I are thinking about the Great Loop. Our initial experiences with a large sailboat were very much like the experiences of this couple on their new power boat. Their trials brought back memories and made us laugh at the similarities! It looks like they have settled near my birthplace, so even more in common now. Loved the book!
Great read. We are planning on doing the loop and there are some great references and stories to make us want to loop even more!
Boring book written by a racist and prejudiced person. Clearly an effort to finance his trip.
A little flowery in the writing and not enough writing on the Tenn-Tom and Gulf Coast but overall a good book. This one actually convinced us not to do the entire loop but concentrate on the East coast and then head for the Caribbean.
The title might set the wrong tone as this book is a colorfully written actual account of this ambitious trip taken by a husband-wife crew on a 40 foot trawler capable of 9 knots. It was their first big boat but they were a quick study and courageous. Bonus is an entire section summarizing all the resources they used to prepare for the trip with contact information and recommendations. He is a travel writer so you get a lot of the local flavor and history as they cruise.
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