Author: jgrahamsrq

On The Road Again!

After a seven week break from our Great Loop journey, we are now back aboard Hydrotherapy and have resumed our travels North and heading into Canada.

We flew home end of May so that we could be there for the arrival of our newest grandchild.  Worth and Erin welcomed their beautiful little girl, Lillian Elizabeth, on June 14th.  Grace is a doting and loving big sister and is so proud of her baby sister!

We also were able to celebrate the 5th birthday of our oldest grandchild, Selby and spend time with her little brother Graham.

it was a time to spend with family and see friends whom we had not seen since February, when we began our boat journey.

We also were able to spend a week in Highlands, NC with Lauren and John and Selby and Graham.  We had a great time hiking to beautiful waterfalls and vistas and visiting the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.

We returned to Syracuse on Friday.   We had Hydrotherapy buffed and shined and a few minor repairs done there while we were gone.  We resumed our journey on Saturday and headed west on the Erie Canal until we turned north onto the  Oswego River.  It was a time consuming day as we had eight locks to get through.  We docked at the Oswego Municipal Marina for the evening and left this morning  to cross Lake Ontario to get on the St Lawrence River.  We are now cruising into the Thousand Islands…where Thousand Island salad dressing originated!

We loved our time at home with family and friends and now it is time to resume our 6,000 mile Great Loop journey!   Tonight we are anchored near Cape Vincent, NY.

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About Us!

We have lived in Sarasota, FL since 1985.  We started boating locally on the west coast of Florida in 1988, utilizing a boat rental club called “Club Nautico”.  Through that exposure, we realized that boating was something we wanted to continue to do with our family. Our two grown children and their families now share our enthusiasm for boating and scuba diving.  We cruised many summers to the Florida keys with our children and dove for lobster and recreation.

Through the years we have owned three gas powered Sea Ray inboard/outboards and three diesel powered Sea Rays.  During that time, we kept admiring the quality of Marlow yachts, which has its headquarters near Sarasota.  Throughout our many years of owning boats and boating, we knew what would be an ideal boat for us.  We designed and built a 49E Marlow with all the comforts necessary for long range cruising. In 2018, we took delivery of our vessel, which we named Hydrotherapy. 

We had heard about a 6,000 mile boat trip around the eastern United States waterways.  This is referred to as the Great Circle Loop.  We had been reading articles about this cruising adventure for many years in boating magazines and become more and more familiar with this boating trip.  We are recently retired and now have the time to embark on this journey.