Plan Your Next Journey

MyBoatJourney.com plans multi-day boat trips across North America and beyond, from a lazy week in the islands to a year on the water. Pick a journey, and you start with a complete route and a stop for every night.

  • The Great Loop - around eastern North America, with every side trip and alternate route.
  • The Pacific Northwest - Puget Sound, the San Juan Islands, British Columbia and the Inside Passage to Alaska.
  • The Baja Ha-Ha - the cruisers' rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, and on down the coast of Mexico.
  • Ocean races - such as the Pacific Cup and the Transpac to Hawaii.
  • And more - Florida to Maine, Boston to the Cape and Islands, Miami to the Panama Canal.
every route in MyBoatJourney.com on one map of North America
46,000+miles of routes
2,400+marinas
300+anchorages
250+locks
1,500+bridges

A Few Clicks

Every journey starts the same way: pick a journey, your boat, where you start and where you end. Take the Great Loop as an example - in a few mouse clicks you have a full route around eastern North America with stops every 50 miles or so.

Great Loop map with stops

Choose

Modify your route from over 17,000 miles of Great Loop waterways.

17,000 miles of waterways

Summary

View a summary of your trip including the number of destinations, nights, hours underway, miles to travel, fuel burned, the number of locks and bridges, and when you will arrive.

Journey Summary

Customize

Point and click customization of the route with lots of options especially in the Chesapeake, through Canada, around Florida, and through North Carolina and Virginia.

customize the route

Where to Fuel Up

Differentiate the destinations such that green ones have your type a fuel and red ones do not.

differentiate marinas with fuel

View the Locks

See where they are visually and find out what you need to know about them.

customize the route

Itinerary

A complete itinerary is automatically generated for you - providing the distance and time it takes to get the next destination, and the fuel left when you get there. It also provides the arrival and departure date. Change the 'nights' to change your itinerary.

Fill Up. Tick Fill Up at any marina that sells your fuel, and the tank is filled there - every Fuel Left after it is recalculated from a full tank. In the example, the boat arrives at St. Johnsville with 62 gallons, fills up it 300 gallon tank, and reaches Brewerton with 287.

Magnetic Variation. Navionics gives headings relative to true north, but most skippers steer by the compass, which points to magnetic north. The difference depends on where you are - about 13° in upstate New York, 7° in Miami, 18° in Alaska. The Mag Var column gives it for every stop, ready to use: add it to the Navionics heading to get the magnetic course to steer.

Itinerary

 

Leg of the Journey

Get a detailed picture of today's leg of the journey - including the bridges you need to wait for (in red) and the ones where you need to put down your antennas (in yellow)'. There's also extensive information about both you departure and destination.'

a leg of the route