ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Peter Frank has paddled from Michigan's Upper Peninsula in June to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland this month in his 1982 Sawyer Loon decked canoe, but he's still got a long way to go.

After 480 days and 7,810km of paddling, 24-year-old Peter Frank has completed a canoe journey around most of the Great Loop the “wrong way.” Beginning and ending in Escanaba, Michigan, the U.S.

A 23-year-old Eagle Scout is sailing 6,000 miles across the U.S. and Canada, tackling the Great Loop route in an unmotorized canoe. Starting in June from Escanaba, Michigan, Peter Frank has paddled ...

Peter Frank stands by his canoe in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, a day before he plans to resume his trip along the Great Loop in what is roughly a 6,000-mile voyage and that he estimates ...