Welcome to Over Yonder Website.
Here we will share with you the start of our retirement life and “Great Loop” journey on our Eastern Casco Bay trawler named “Over Yonder”.
We started in Rhode Island aboard Over Yonder, an Eastern Casco Bay 31. We traveled 6632 miles thru 3 countries on rivers, canals, thru locks, lakes, swamps, marshes, across bays, thru channels, and on oceans. We stayed at marinas, on town walls, at community docks, on moorings, and anchored. We were inducted into the AGLCA looper family and made numerous friends. And, we were visited by numerous family and friends that had been separated by distance. We crossed our wake at the Statue of Liberty after 414 days.
As we were nearing the end, a friend asked us what was the best part of the trip.
I remembered when we were a couple months into our trip. We were anchored out in a small bay in the North Channel on Lake Huron waiting out a storm. The weather cleared. There was a post storm sunset. The rugged Canadian cliffs lit up with all the colors of the sunset. My spouse stated “This is the best day yet”.
A few days later we stopped at a small town dock, they were having a festival, live music, food, the pleasant buzz of newly formed looper friends. “This is the best day yet”.
Dolphins riding the bow wave on a starry gulf crossing. “This is the best day yet”. Turtles and stingrays swimming around us in the Bahamas. “This is the best day yet”. Otters playing around the stern of our boat in the Carolina marshes. “This is the best day yet”.
After a while, you would think that phrase would lose its meaning, but not only was every day good, but it was different and interesting and we could not wait to see what was next. Looping was the best day yet.
Over Yonder
Eastern Boats Casco Bay 31 – Semi-Disp, Downeast workboat
31’4” long, 11’ 2” wide and draws 3’6” and has a 12′ clearance
Powered by a single 370 Hp Volvo Penta Inboard
200 of gallons fuel and 70 gallons of water
Layout – Aft deck, a main cabin/salon/galley, head, and V-birth.
Our America’s Great Loop
The America’s Great Loop is a circumnavigation of the eastern half of the U.S., and part of Canada. Our Route started at the Status of Liberty, transited up the Hudson River to the New York State Canals, the Canadian Canals, the Great Lakes, the inland rivers, the Gulf of Mexico Florida, and then the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway to head back home. with a side trip to Nashville, Richmond, the Dry Tortugas, and the Bahamas.
It was the adventure of a lifetime aboard our boat Over Yonder.