Skirting the Shore
Reflections on Sailing the Great Loop
Adrian Martin sailed the Great Loop with his family and wrote about it with the kind of honesty that makes life aboard feel real -- the weather, the exhaustion, the wonder, and the daily rhythms of living on the water full-time.
Most Great Loop books are about completing the route. This one is equally interested in what it’s actually like to live aboard while doing it. Adrian Martin and his family set out to sail the Loop, and he writes with genuine candor about what that life looks like day to day: the good passages and the rough ones, the tight anchorages, the systems that fail at inconvenient moments, and the way your sense of normal quietly shifts when a boat becomes home.
The book covers the full Loop, so readers will find themselves in familiar waters whether they’re thinking about the Great Lakes, the Gulf Coast, or the East Coast ICW. Martin doesn’t oversell the adventure, which is exactly why it works. If you’re wondering what liveaboard Loop life is really like for a family, this is a useful and readable answer.
A good fit for couples or families in the dreaming or planning stage, especially anyone asking the question: what is it actually like once you’re out there?
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