Seahorse's Great Loop Adventure: BRINGING SEAHORSE HOME

After much internet searching and shopping we found our perfect boat - a 1999 Mainship 350 located in St. Charles, MO on the Mississippi River. In April of 2012 we purchased our boat and began preparation for bringing her to our home port of Holiday Point Marina on the Ohio River at MM 338.9 LDB. For those who are land lovers - that is the mile marker location on the Ohio River and is on the left descending bank (LDB).

Our Home Port

To learn more about our home port marina go to

http://www.holidayptmarina.com/

On May 1st Dan and his two crew, Daryl and Henry, began the seventeen day journey of bringing Seahorse home. Fortunately the wind and weather gods cooperated and brought fair winds and calm seas for the majority of the trip. Our new boat performed well throughout the trip. After 11 days, Dan and crew made it to Louisville for crew change where Angie came aboard and Henry returned home with our car. Besides an 11 hour wait at Meldahl Dam for gate repair, the rest of trip was uneventful. Upon arrival at Holiday Point Marina we were greeted by many boating friends.

This trip would not have been possible without the help of two great shipmates, Daryl and Henry. THANK YOU BOTH !!!

Henry, Dan, Daryl

We enjoyed boating from our home port with our wonderful friends in 2012 and 2013 while preparing for our Great Loop Adventure.

2 comments:

Maryann AilesApril 27, 2014 at 3:19 PM
Great adventures await you two!
UnknownMay 7, 2014 at 4:04 PM
I'm looking forward to following your loop adventure when you get started and hope you don't have to use that spare prop I sold you. When you get down to Mobile, AL, I hope you will email me so we can drive over and take you folks out to Dinner or visit for a spell. My boat is currently over at Dog River Marina in Mobile. We have a contract for sale on it and the perspective new owners with be surveying and sea trialing next week. Guess if the sale happens, we'll move on to looking for the next boat. Neither of us knows precisely what the "next boat" looks like yet. We have tons of open water here and our current boat is too slow and too tender in the waves for any length of time so I feel sure the next boat will be something faster, but not necessarily larger.