Honey, Let’s Get a Boat

Ron and Eva Stob’s Honey, Let’s Get a Boat: A Cruising Adventure of America’s Great Loop documents the couple’s one-year adventure cruising the famed Loop. When the Stobs started out, they had almost no boating experience between them. Regardless of their inexperience, the couple decided to charter a boat in Canada one summer. They met another couple who had cruised from the East Coast and up the Mississippi River. Intrigued, Eva asked how they got their boat from the Mississippi all the way to Bobcaygeon, Ontario. As Ron and Eva learned about the Great Loop for the first time, Eva whispered to Ron, “Honey, let’s get a boat.”

In planning their first Loop, the Stobs faced the same questions all Loopers do when taking on an adventure of such magnitude. Written with Ron’s self-deprecating sense of humor, Honey, Let’s Get a Boat brings readers along for the ride, sharing acts of kindness from local boaters, the culture and local flavors of the places they visit and all the nagging inconveniences in between, from boat repairs to sand fleas.

The book includes an appendix to help you plan your own Great Loop adventure, including route options, budget advice and recommended reading, plus tips on weather, what to bring, locking, postal services and more. It’s the perfect first stop for anyone contemplating a Great Loop voyage. —Julie M. Shea