Cruise with Barb and Dave on Hallelujah
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    • About Us
  • 2021 Trip Log
    • Winter, 2021
    • Spring, 2021
  • 2020 Trip Log
    • Fall, 2020
    • Summer, 2020
    • Spring, 2020
    • Winter, 2020
  • 2019 Trip Log
    • Fall, 2019
    • Summer, 2019
    • Spring, 2019
    • Winter, 2019
  • 2018 Trip Log
    • Fall, 2018
    • Summer, 2018
    • Spring, 2018
    • Winter, 2018
  • 2017 Trip Log
    • Fall, 2017
    • Summer, 2017
    • Spring, 2017
    • Winter, 2017
  • 2016 Trip Log
    • Fall, 2016
    • Summer, 2016
    • Spring, 2016
    • Winter 2016
  • 2015 Trip Log
    • Fall 2015
    • Summer 2015
    • Winter, 2015
  • 2014 Trip Log
    • Fall, 2014
    • Summer 2014
    • Winter / Spring, 2014
  • 2013 Trip Log
    • Fall, 2013
    • Summer, 2013 >
      • Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
    • Spring, 2013
    • Winter, 2013
  • 2012 Year Trip Info
    • Fall, 2012
    • Summer 2012 trip >
      • September, 2012
      • August, 2012
      • July 2012
      • June 2012
    • Winter 2012
  • 2011 Loop Trip
    • Winter 2011 / 2012
    • Loop Trip Leg 11: Canal Cruising
    • Loop Trip Leg 10: ICW North from FL
    • Loop Trip Leg 9: Bahamas
    • Loop Trip Leg 8: Keys
  • 2010 Loop Trip
    • Loop Trip Leg 7: Clearwater FL to Keys
    • Loop Trip Leg 6: Tenn-Tom Bigby to Clearwater, FL
    • Loop Trip Leg 5: Tenn River Part 2
    • Loop Trip Leg 4 - Tenn River Part 1
    • Loop Trip Leg 3 - River System
    • Loop Trip Leg 2 - Lake Michigan
    • May - June, 2010
  • Loop Trip Leg 1: Summer 2009 Cruise
  • Route milage logs
  • BJR recipes
  • Guest Comments

Welcome to Hallelujah, our summer home.

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 We are lifelong boaters, both having boats in the family before we married.   We have owned 5 sailboats ranging from 12 to 38 feet and our current MV over our 50 years of marriage.  We now own Hallelujah, a DeFever 44.  We purchased Hallelujah in 2006 before retiring to prepare to complete the Great Loop (the waterway system around the eastern half to the US.).  Dave retired in 2009 so that we could have an extended cruise on the Great Lakes and think about what we would need when we moved aboard.  We have sailed Lake Michigan and Northern Lake Huron over our many years of boating.  In 2010 after Barb retired, we moved aboard to complete a lifetime dream of full time cruising and completing the Loop.  We completed the Great Loop in 2010 when we passed Treasure Island, FL (former home for Hallelujah and the start of our first loop).  We went to the Bahamas and then started loop two in 2011 and finished it in 2015.  We took a number of side trips while completing Loop two.  Lake Superior was a wonderful experience and the weather was great except for the cold and fog.  In 2016 we ventured to Maine from Florida and returned having experienced three hurricanes on the trip.  In 2017 we moved Hallelujah back to the Great Lakes and have been enjoying cooler summers and no hurricanes.  We are still on Loop Three as Platinum Loopers and enjoy meeting loopers in the Great Lakes.
We hope that you enjoy our blog and find our trips interesting.



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