An Ankeny couple found a new way to scoop the loop. This year, Pam and Terry Partis completed the Great Loop, a 6,600 nautical mile boat journey that travels the Eastern Seaboard, passes through ...

Jib and Teresa Davidson navigate their way out of Port 32 Marina in Jacksonville during a trip in April. The couple are among the hundreds of boaters who have completed the Great Loop in recent years.

Robert Youens left Pensacola, Florida, in a sixteen-foot aluminum johnboat at 7:31 a.m. on July 12, with the goal of navigating America’s Great Loop as fast as he could. Roughly 4,800 miles, 64 locks, ...