Two boats, one map, ~4,500 miles around eastern North America. Youens is running 24/7 with two drivers and sleeping quarters, gunning for under 10 days.
Record holder (19d 13h 1m, 2025). Launched from Chickasaw/Mobile on July 13 with co-driver Steve Hernden — 23' boat, 120 hp, running day and night.
Solo in a jon boat, underway since July 10 from St. Marks, FL — chasing the solo record (19d 13h 1m) on a 5,000-mile route, with a stretch goal of 14 days.
Target: 12d 18h 10m — fastest documented Great Loop ever
Target: 19d 13h 1m — Youens' 2025 solo mark
Fan-made estimates computed live from GPS over each boat's full run so far: schedule compares total miles covered against the pace needed to beat the record over each crew's route (Youens ~4,500 mi; Bandit ~5,000 mi per his page); odds are a projection from average speed to date. Not official.
The Great Loop is commonly described as a ~6,000-mile circumnavigation of the eastern U.S. and parts of Canada via the Gulf, Atlantic ICW, Great Lakes, and inland rivers — though a tightly planned speed route runs far shorter: Youens covered about 4,800 miles setting the 2025 record, and is running roughly 4,500 this year. Robert Youens set the solo/single-engine record of 19 days, 13 hours, 1 minute in 2025 in a 16-foot jon boat. This year he's back with a bigger boat, a second driver, and a 24/7 schedule — aiming to finish in under 10 days and take down the outright record too. Both boats are tracked live above via Garmin inReach satellite.
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