Journalist Jamie Lauren Keiles spent four days on the Great Loop with Tim and Karen Bartel on their Bluewater 52, Let It Ride, for a story in The New York Times Magazine. The Bartels left home in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, last Sept. 2. Keiles caught up with them in Fort Myers, Florida, as they prepared to cross the Okeechobee. She ends up with a fun story about real life on the Loop, including an emergency trip to the dentist and an extra day tied up in a marina waiting for a missing part. Her story is a cinema verité snapshot of life on the water. Read it here:
