My Great Loop Journey began in June 2012 when I was helping a friend move his sailboat from the Sacramento Delta to Redwood City, which is in south San Francisco Bay.
Berthed next door to his sailboat was a very nice looking Ranger Tug similar to the one shown here.
I was captivated by the boat and later read up on the Ranger Tug line of boats. Note that what you see if you look at their current line up of boats is a different design (more of a "go fast" boat) than what they used to produce, which was more suited to long distance cruising.
That research led me to information about America's Great Loop. I was fascinated by the possibility of travelling over 5,000 miles up America's eastern seaboard (through protected waters), then through the Great Lakes and into Canada, then returning south through states in the middle of America.
