Patch AM Rewind: LI Boaters Make Year-Long Journey

FREEPORT, NY — A couple of Freeport completed a sailing venture that took them up and down the Eastern Seaboard, encompassing over 6,000 miles in more than a year.

Hal and Laurie Goldschlag took their boat on the route that's called the "Great Loop," from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.

"Everybody's loop is different," Laurie Goldschlag, said on Wednesday's Patch AM. "We chose to do it in one continuous year."

Hal Goldschlag brought his background as a licensed boat captain to the journey.

"There's a lot of loopers that are not experienced. We met many people who bought a boat and thought 'Let's do the loop.' They go out and do it," Hal said. "I wouldn't recommend that necessarily."

The only setback the Goldschlags encountered was the weather.

"It happened to be a windy year. The weather was not that wonderful," he said

Watch the full "Patch AM" interview.