John’s Thoughts & Photos

John’s thinking about food (always), cool tools, stinky towels, and other stuff.

John is back out cruising and thinking about great anchorages, small cruising boats, camping and prime lenses.

John is thinking about modern anchors, the Vendée Globe, winter storage, and why the heck is it so hard to sell Nova Scotia as a winter yachting destination?

John’s thinking about seasickness (yet again), climate change, RIBs, oil analysis, good books for long winter evenings…and the beach.

John’s thinking about Whitbread 60s, paying to sail, boatyards, watermakers, and climate change…something for everyone.

John’s thinking about a little bit of everything: single handed racing, cutless bearings, and prime lenses.

Lots of laying-up tips in this one. Stuff that can save you a bunch of time and aggravation.

This week, John’s thinking about laying up.

John’s got a creative itch to scratch. Here is the first of a new type of post.

Celebrating the middle of the sailing season (in the North) with post on a cool meeting with great potential for AAC, a great video, and some other fun stuff too.

A few thoughts and photographs to start the month off: lee shores, pubs, books, and a sobering reminder.

It’s been a while since we did a this and that post, so here goes.

OK, enough with all this talk of motorboats, let’s go sailing in a bit of breeze on Morgan’s Cloud. We made the video below a few days ago in a solid Force 7 blow (near gale, 28-33 knots).

The publishing team here at AAC world headquarters is ready for spring. We have some other news too.

It’s amazing how often we see this: an otherwise substantial anchoring set up totally compromised by one small detail. Can you spot it? Please leave a comment. Just to keep things simple, I’m only talking about the starboard anchor.

A Race For Real Sailors I’m thinking that some of you might be interested in learning more about the series of races that the original Bluenose was built to win. A series that was inspired by the desire of working schooner fishermen to go out and show a bunch of effete yachtsmen racing expensive, silly […]

“Fun Tax” I got an email from yacht designer Ed Joy, about something else, to which he added the following: I agree with the sentiments in your hull form article. Racers having great fun scampering downwind on their sleds are dreading the “fun tax” that must be paid when it’s time to harden up the […]

A great piece by Charley Doane over at Wavetrain on the folly of carrying jerry jugs of fuel on deck and how to make it unnecessary with smart motor-sailing.