I’ve always wanted to see how the water vest works. We have the same brand

What a great episode - lots of travel legs, lots of moorings and dockings, and at the risk of repeating myself a hundred times, that water is unreal. Not to mention how bizarre and cool it is to see sharks swimming under your swim platform! Definitely not a visual we have here in the Great Lakes. Oh, yeah …and LOTS of adorable shots of Ollie in this one. 💕 🐾

Hey guys !!! Our family loves your videos. The bridge in Perdido Key that Kathy doesnt like and you went under is actually called the Theo Baars Bridge. We own a AirBnb just at the bottom of the bridge on the right side. If you are ever back in the area and need a place to stay let us know !!! You can dock at the Oyster Bar and Marina and walk to the house !!

a few things . . you seem real concerned with boating rules. You might want to check out the rules for legally flying drones for a youtube channel. First it requires a part 107 certificate (just verified you do NOT have one), secondly you MUST have a minimum of 3 miles visibility which early in this video when you almost lost the drone and had to wait out the visibility you were again operating illegally. Hey don't listen to me, check out the rules on the internet . . . all it will take is for one FAA Inspector to check out your page and the multiple times you used the drone illegally to absolutely ruin your day. I guarantee the fines will be much more then your youtube paychecks . . . probably more like much more then your yearly gas bill. #DroneResponsibly

I heard it, fanny pack on our loop list.

Jut found your channel so excuse my delay in commenting on past videos. This does not surprise me AT ALL. Boat yard owners are notoriously shady and your situation is exactly what they love. They love boat owners that drop a boat in the yard and have to leave it. The clock is running. They will milk it for every last dollar, complain to insurance, over estimate and always under deliver. They are all crooked and take advantage. Good luck moving forward.

Sorry to hear about the damage, been there!…💸💸💸

I am loving the video's, I live right by where you stopped for the night at the Meramec inlet in St. Louis and I have a place in Gulf Shores so watching you guys in the OB area was so familiar. Great editing too!

As always! You guys nailed it! Awesome scenery and sweet family time!

Great looking family and an excellent tour...continue...

So very nice the girls were able to fly down and visit. You have a beautiful family. Travel safe.

You have a beautiful family😊

Flew the Baron up to Grand Rapids in September of '98 to attend a conference and spent a very pleasant Sunday afternoon wandering around the river waterfront of Grand Haven and having a relaxing lunch with friends and colleagues at a waterside place I now can't remember. Lovely city on Lake Michigan. And I never, never rushed the aircraft mechanics.

Wow! Your daughters are beautiful and so is all that scenery we missed! Thanks so much for sharing! We may have to try and go there next year lol. Thanks for your great videos and helpful info!!

Enjoyed seeing the beginnings of your adventure!

What brand of boat is Dreamer?

Thank you for sharing. We are in the planning/prepping stage and appreciate the first hand account. Maybe November 2025? 😉 Btw, are you two editing and adding the audio? Nicely done, regardless!!!

Your daughters are lovely. Kathleen may be the best First Mate in the Bahamas. She handled the locks and lines like a pro. Much respect and mild breezes.

I must say that Orange Beach Alabama visor was an omen if there was ever one! 😉 Must be a story behind it for sure.

Im sure you loved your time with your daughters. Do you have any regrets about haulin a## and basically skipping the west of Florida? What intercoms are you using and how do you like them!

What a nice week!Beautiful water,beautiful weather and three beautiful ladies!

So beautiful 😍 Love that water😊

Great views as usual!!! Be well and safe my friends!!!

Enjoyed all that great scenery, nevers gets old! And we've all asked ourselves that same question, do we have to leave?

Thank god you were not on the open sea!!

When was this filmed? Now on 7/31 we have a tropical weather move toward the east coast. Just wandering when you moved north up the east coast.

Great show thank you. Please keep them coming 😊

Sandals and sand are not friends. I hiked up to big Sable Lighthouse and back from the state park parking lot with sandals. Lesson learned. =/

Loved seeing your beautiful daughters I love the area. Our son and dil explored on our last cruise.

I agree wardiwells is beautiful was there about 20 years ago aboard a37 tartan with friends there is a very old well there story has it that pirates used to hang out there hiding from the British man of wars thst patrolled the area the pirates would build fires on top of the island to lure inspecting merchant ships that in turn would be driven up on the rocks then looted

Thanks again, love watching your videos.... way to go life style. 🍻🍻🍻🍻🫶🦘🦘

The reason for all the river name changes is because they don’t naturally flow together. Both the Chicago and Calumet rivers flow naturally into Lake Michigan. There is a slight rise in the land between those and the Des Plaines river. Basically a sub-continental divide between water that flows through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic vs. water that flows down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. The canal and channel(more recent) were dug to provide a connection for boat traffic/trade. And the reason it’s called the Sanitary and Ship canal is because, in 1900, Chicago famously also used this waterway to send its sewage downstream rather than have it go into Lake Michigan where it had been polluting the water supply. Which is why the Chicago River lock is right at the mouth of Lake Michigan rather than further downstream. And yeah, St. Louis was not at all happy to have Chicago’s sewage flowing down to it.

My wife and I live on the banks of the Tombigbee River roughly seven miles north of the Coffeville Lock in a community of camps on the West side of the river. We are truly sorry to hear of your troubles. However everyone in our community has a problem that we encounter almost daily and that problem is Yatchs! I would say that at least 75% of the Yatchs that pass our homes do so at wide open throttle showing no respect for our docks, piers or the boats that we might have tied up to these docks. Even though the fist statement in the Alabama boaters book states that no one should operate a vessel in a manner that will cause damage to another vessel or personal property, we can’t seem to get any help with the problem from the state level. I personally have had boats damaged while tied up to my dock by passing Yatchs. So if you are one of the 25% that slow down and show respect then I am truly sorry for the troubles that you encountered. If you are part of the other 75%, well………………

48 Gallons an hour?🤯🤪

I would name the dingy OB.

Interesting seeing the video. I have grown up the Riverbend area. The Alton Marina you stayed at is location of the Old Clark Bridge and Railroad Bridge. In addition, if you looked over to the Missouri side of the River you would of seen one part the old Lock and Dam that was left on Smallpox Island (West Alton). There is a monument close to the old dam on the island that has a list of Civil War soldiers that died on Smallpox Island. During the Civil War, there was a prison in Alton (close to where the grain mill is now located) and the soldiers that became sick was transported over to West Alton (Smallpox Island) and 'treated' there and kept isolated from the main population.

not paradido...it's PERDIDO

to the USCG "Taking on water" sounds like an emergency. You didn't have an "emergency" did you?? You traveled 9 hours after the logstrike. with both engines working and transmissions unaffected....

Love the wake Andromeda cuts when the throttles are hammered down, every thing in the green, making good headway on a gorgeous southern Fall day!

I did not know, much less appreciate, this kind of scenery, and these kinda river marinas, were around me in the southeast. This area has always been flyover country for me...at either 8,000 feet in the Baron or Flight Level 280 on a commercial flight (westbound). Gotta understand, for the pilot in me, I'm always wishing I was on the water when I see the waterways from altitude. For the boater/sailor in me, when I see an airplane overhead, I always wish i was up there goinhg to far flung destinations unknown. Thanks for the ground (or river) level scenery for this mixed up pilot/sailor/boater kinda old guy!! Vessel captains and pilots in command have a lot in common ( a really lot!).

As a way back when (Gulf) coast coastal S/V cruiser I really do not understand inland sailboating. I guess to diehard sailboaters it's any patch of water will do. But it's darn hard to get the SaltLife outta my veins. What great harbor host greaters!! Harbor hosts seem to be the equivalent of trail angels for those of us who mix in some Colorado Trail backpacking with our distant, wistful boating life. Thanks for sharing some of the southeastern waterways I'll never have a chance to experience first person.

Enjoyed seeing all the Christmas decorations!

At the moment I'm finalizing plans for my annual pilgrimage to the Colorado Rockies this Fall. I do not know why I'm watching this vid and not one about chasing the Colorado Fall colors and Colorado fly fishing reports for my fav streams. Always been a tough call for me...beaches and boats or the western Rockies. But here I am. 😉. And Kath is one helluva deckmate.

Enjoying my backtracking on your Great Loop adventure. Gotta admit I've never been a fan of river running for all the junk in the water. In my early boating days when I did run the Alabama River near home, I always proceeded slowly and kept a handful of prop shear pins handy, hoping no damage to the prop itself (had a spare one of those too!). I'm a bit curious why y'all chose the eastern segment between MO & KY rather than the western segment staying on the Mississip thru Memphis and down to New Orleans. If you've answered that in a vid I've missed, point me in the right direction for the answer. BTW, from my sailing days I met a few sailboaters that did the GL and in my opinion they were gluttons for punishment. But that's just me.

Backtracking on some of your earlier Great Loop videos, it's inspired me to learn more about the local geography and history of the places you guys have cruised through. The nice Fall colors are a treat. Some of the scenery brings back a few memories of the photos I got to see from when a great uncle of mine would do a lot of in-land cruises like this on his all wood cabin class Chris Craft back in the 60s. Those were photos from exotic places for a 12 or 13 YO farm kid at the time. I still have his 17' lapstrake runabout I learned to ski behind in the 60s. It's still seaworthy but in need of new varnish and paint. Appologies for rambling on.

Absolutely you can block the engine up to do that repair. I’ve done it on the water!

Missed this leg somehow; you wisely chose open water. Not the same circumstances but been there and done that during our coastal sailing days. Superb helmsmanship getting into the haulout slip! Always enjoyed flying into the Gulf Shores Airport and the opportunity for a "business" lunch at Lulu's.

Backtracking on a few of your videos and yes that lock gate failure at Demopolis did create a big mess on the TennTom. Gotta say that the Kingfisher Bay Marina courtesy car you guys usesd was way better than most airport courtesy cars I've had to use over the years. Know about that rafting trick from my sailing daze.

Your videos are great for the average boater. Yeah sure, you’ll get comments from a couple of boaters that have grown up on live aboard boats or have been living on big boats first the past 20 or so yrs; don’t let them dissuade you from documenting your adventures for others to see. I too have thought about the big loop and other boating adventures. I’ve been small boating since a child. The biggest boat I’ve owned was a 33’ Searay. Again. Always dreamt about bigger adventures! Love the videos.

Go to the dentist hun.