Tracy and Bob’s Adventures on Three Sons
Newest Blog Post
-
North Carolina
Read moreThe ICW is basically a watery interstate route filled with natural breathtaking beauty and engineered paths connecting the waterways. In North Carolina the ICW runs for 300 miles and has large tidal flow, inlets currents, creeks and rivers, shallow water and active dredging barges. Three Sons cruised the 271 miles of the ICW through North… Read More »North Carolina
-
Great Loop Stats!
About Us
We are Tracy and Bob Oliveira from Dartmouth, MA. We have three wonderful sons: Zachary, Jacob, and Cory; thus the name for our boat. As we closed out our careers and our boys crafted their own, we decided we needed something to do with our time. After working our way up from an 18′ center console, we arrived at the Three Sons, a 1990 Grand Banks Motoryacht. It was the perfect fit for us as it provides lots of space to live comfortably for long periods of time, and also accommodates our boys and other guests along the way. Being a 32+ year old boat, it also provides us with endless projects to occupy our free time as we travel.
Our plans are inspired for our desire for warm weather, spontaneous fun, exploring new places and adventure of new experiences. A goal is to complete the Great Loop but we traveled down the East Coast in the fall of 2022 calling it our “practice run.” We migrated back North in the spring of 2023 and spent the summer in Massachusetts with family and friends. Now, the fall 2023 we are once again traveling down the East Coast, planning to stop at the ports we missed on our other trips. After the East Coast, our hope is to cruise over to the West Coast of Florida via Lake Okeechobee and start our Great Loop Adventure. We are looking for froward to many ‘side trips’ along the Great Loop Route the first being wintering in the Bahamas.
Pre Great Loop Stats
Nautical Miles Traveled – 4,248
Ports Visited – 83
Breweries Visited – 73
