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Harbor JournalAug 3 2026
America's inland and coastal waterways are filled with side trips to rival the main route. From the Big Easy to Boston Harbor, these are the best extensions of the great loop route you've been looking to plan next season around.
Harbor JournalAug 1 2026
Lake Okeechobee or round the bend through the Keys? If your boat allows a decision at all - two very different routes carry their own set of challenges.
Harbor JournalAug 3 2026"Two-hour wait at Pickwick this morning — one chamber down for maintenance. Tows have priority; recreational locking through in pairs."
Reports from captains underway publish here within hours of Harbormaster review. None are live this morning — the intake is always open.
A narrow-beam, trailerable pocket trawler built around range, simplicity, and low operating cost. On the Loop, the SeaPiper 37 is less a miniature yacht than a small expedition platform: slow, efficient, towable, and unusually serious about turning modest size into geographic reach.
Why this vessel: a trailerable pocket cruiser in the same spirit as the lead's Ranger Tug 27 — small-boat range and shallow-water freedom on the sound-country stretch of the route.
A Gold Looper turned buyer-broker at Admiralty Yacht Sales — researched for trawler, catamaran, and Loop-minded buyers.
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Wormsloe Historic Site, located just outside downtown Savannah, is the former colonial estate of Noble Jones, one of Georgia’s original 1733 settlers. It features Savannah's oldest standing structure—a 1745 fortified tabby house—and is famous for its breathtaking 1.5-mile avenue of over 400 live oak trees
No new route-affecting developments to report this morning.
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