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Experience America's Great Loop
Michael Straub completed the Great Loop on a Sea-Doo personal watercraft, solo and unsupported, covering 6,795 miles in 101 days in the summer of 2022.
Most people do the Great Loop on a trawler, a cruiser, or a sailboat. Michael Straub did it on a jet ski. No support crew, no chase boat, no sponsors. Just him, a Sea-Doo, waterproof bags, and 101 days from Omaha to Key West to New York to Chicago and back.
It is a different kind of Loop story, and that difference sharpens the experience. Everything a cruiser takes for granted, including shelter, range, storage, and comfort, had to be rethought or done without. The physical and mental demands are front and center throughout, and Straub writes with the directness of someone who has actually been tested.
The route hits the full Loop: the Gulf Coast, Florida, the Eastern Seaboard, the Great Lakes, and the river system back home. For readers who have ever wanted to see what the Loop looks like stripped down to its essentials, this is a vivid answer. It is also a good motivational read for anyone who keeps putting off their own version of a big adventure.
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