6000 miles in a 35 year old Trojan – Is it possible?
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 12:40 pm
What does everyone think of taking a 6000+ mile trip in a 35 year old 10 Meter. How about if I told you it was one with the original 454 gas engines. Do you think it’s possible? Well, I’m here to tell you IT IS!!!
When I originally purchased a Trojan 10 Meter Sedan 3 years ago I had no intentions of taking it on the Great Loop. I had heard of this trip several years ago and dreamed of doing it, but not until the timing was perfect. I wanted to wait for retirement, wait until I had enough money saved, wait until I had the perfect boat, one with diesel engines that would be economical to run.
One day while surfing the net I was reading about the Great Loop and thinking about the boat I was going to get for retirement to take me on this elusive trip. Granted retirement was still 20 years away, but it’s still nice to dream, right? One comment that I read about selecting the “perfect” boat was that there was no perfect boat since each boat fills a different need based upon ones wants and needs at the time. It further went on to say that the perfect boat was the one that you already own. That statement right there got me thinking. Thinking that now, not later in life was the time. Now if I could just convince my sweetie that this is what we needed to do. We needed to do this now, while we are both young and healthy and while we still like each other.
We spent 2 summers cruising with this boat and 3 winters getting it ready in hopes of leaving on the Great Loop trip. When I first thought about planning for this all I really thought about was getting the boat ready, but there was so much more that needed to be done. It was not just about getting the boat ready, but about getting our lives ready that took a lot of time. Things that I didn’t think about early on were the aspects surrounding our dirt house, what do we do with that? What about our vehicles? Do we rent out the house and store the contents or just close it up? This and so so many other factors caused us to have a later departure than we wanted, but I am happy to say we finally left on this trip of a lifetime called The Great Loop on August 10, 2019.
When I originally purchased a Trojan 10 Meter Sedan 3 years ago I had no intentions of taking it on the Great Loop. I had heard of this trip several years ago and dreamed of doing it, but not until the timing was perfect. I wanted to wait for retirement, wait until I had enough money saved, wait until I had the perfect boat, one with diesel engines that would be economical to run.
One day while surfing the net I was reading about the Great Loop and thinking about the boat I was going to get for retirement to take me on this elusive trip. Granted retirement was still 20 years away, but it’s still nice to dream, right? One comment that I read about selecting the “perfect” boat was that there was no perfect boat since each boat fills a different need based upon ones wants and needs at the time. It further went on to say that the perfect boat was the one that you already own. That statement right there got me thinking. Thinking that now, not later in life was the time. Now if I could just convince my sweetie that this is what we needed to do. We needed to do this now, while we are both young and healthy and while we still like each other.
We spent 2 summers cruising with this boat and 3 winters getting it ready in hopes of leaving on the Great Loop trip. When I first thought about planning for this all I really thought about was getting the boat ready, but there was so much more that needed to be done. It was not just about getting the boat ready, but about getting our lives ready that took a lot of time. Things that I didn’t think about early on were the aspects surrounding our dirt house, what do we do with that? What about our vehicles? Do we rent out the house and store the contents or just close it up? This and so so many other factors caused us to have a later departure than we wanted, but I am happy to say we finally left on this trip of a lifetime called The Great Loop on August 10, 2019.