John’s Thoughts and 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. An Accidental Purchase The photo above is the shop window at Arthur Beale, a chandlery (yacht shop) in London. Earlier this year our friend Alasdair Flint, who we originally met on a dark and foggy night when we talked him into a [...]

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). John With Egg On Face By the way, look for a timely reminder from Phyllis at the halfway mark [...]

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