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"Why wait?" About a year and a half ago, Steve Hernden, a Cape Coral, Fla.-based firefighter and charter boat captain, met his cousin for lunch. The two got to talking about America's Great Loop, the all-water route around the eastern continental United States that includes the Atlantic and Gulf Intracoastal Waterways; the Erie Canal, Great Lakes and related canals and waterways; and portions of the Mississippi River and Tributaries system. Through his charter company, Island Coast Excursions, and aboard his two boats, a 70-foot trawler and a 26-foot Glacier Bay 2685 Coastal Runner catamaran-style power boat named Tortuga, Hernden had encountered plenty of people doing the Loop. Most of them were retirees talcing a year or more to complete the Loop. "That was always kind of a retirement plan," Hernden said. But over lunch, Hernden and his cousin kept coming back to the question: "Why wait?" |