Testimonials

Thank you so much for everything you do to help us to get out there and enjoy it. Your resource was the biggest help for me.

l realise that by taking this route l will pay the $36 annual fee up from my legacy amount.  But the amount of pleasure and knowledge you give me each year, l should have done it a few years ago. You are…worth every penny.

I was very fortunate to find a boat whose previous owner was also an AAC subscriber…and many of the systems you describe in detail (preventer for one example) are already set up on my boat, just as you describe they should be.

Your content and style are wonderful, and I’m glad to be a continuing member.

Wow, what a month. First, my radar reflector is worthless. Great. Good to know, I suppose…Now, it turns out, my engine is quietly planning on murdering me, burning me alive…Anyway, thanks, I’ve framed this as a complaint, in jest…This month, alone, has been worth a couple of years of annual subscription fees.

Thank you…for putting together such a content rich site. I no longer have to use unpaid forums for subjective information. Best bang for buck on sailing info out there!

Thank you so much for all you guys do, I rely on you extensively and tell any sailor who asks me questions about my vessel and its equipment to join AAC.

I recently retired from a lifetime in the marine industry and really appreciated your work. I have referred many aspirant sailors to your site and will continue to do that.

We are busily prepping our Arcona 435 for the ARC, and leave Jersey shores in a couple of weeks. So grateful for your efforts on the site, and I appreciate it very sincerely. This is my go to sailing esource, and I absolutely love it.

After owning boats on/off since I was 27 and am now 71…2 Canal crossings, 2 Pacific crossings and everything from Alaska south, AAC has been a guiding light since 2017.

I think the two articles, anchoring-snubbers and 15 steps to getting securely anchored, were worth the subscription cost on their own. Really appreciate the experience being shared.

The weather book really delivers a concise and practical application of a broad subject. I appreciate his effort and experience. 

Thank you for a great website and all the great information that taught me so much before, during and after my ocean crossings.

I wish to congratulate you again for the work you’re doing. It is a great resource for every sailor and especially every owner.

I retired recently and bought a well loved KP 46 cutter. Preparing for this part of my life’s journey has included many hours of reading your work and taking your advice. I am a low profile person and generally prefer anonymity but I really feel a need to express my gratitude.

Love the articles and your approach. BTW. I love my Spade anchor. I think your reporting on the failure was very appropriate and responsible.

Less than the price of one of those fancy lattes a week!  What a bargain.

Thanks for doing what you love and sharing it with us…find great value in the knowledge you share and use your chapters to learn and validate what I learn elsewhere.

I’m currently in Portugal getting ready to head to the Canaries and cross back to the US…Your website has been invaluable to me as I referenced it extensively to prepare both myself and my boat for ocean sailing.

Keep up the good work! I’m preparing my new-to-me OVNI 385 for long term blue water cruising and your information is priceless.

…realized how much I LOVE your articles! Congratulations on 20 years and please keep it up. My wife sends her regards, she read all your articles on docking and it has really boosted our confidence in docking our 14 ton boat in small marinas!

My wife and I truly appreciate all you do for the sailing community and in our opinion this is the best resource we have found for cruising/ seamanship. As newish boat owners and dreaming of cruising before we get too far into our 40’s, we have a road map thanks to your efforts.

I am well past my sailing days but very grateful for your information. I have great respect for your craftmanship and knowledge. It keeps me inspired!

I became the third caretaker of Hound – a 59′ aluminum Aage Nielsen sloop built in 1970. We found your site that winter and it has been absolutely essential to maintaining & upgrading the boat while preserving its original simplicity and performance.

I would give you MOST of the credit for me being able to buy and sail my boat alone from UK to Northern Norway, including anchoring, docking, heavy weather and more, without ever having set foot on a sailboat before! 

One thing I have observed locally, is the inadequacy of ground tackle among cruising yachts, and I refer the owners to your website for ideas on proper gear, correct setup and techniques.

I enjoyed your articles and newsletters. They were incredibility informative and well-written. I referred to your recommendations so many times over the last decade.

Just a quick note to say how useful I found the recent mast climbing series of articles. I have upgraded all my equipment as per John’s recommendations and feel much safer now.

In responding to a new owner’s questions about his onboard AC system, I referenced one of John’s articles…I told him, and the sentence just came to my mind spontaneously, that my modest membership dues paid each year to ACC “was the best sailing investment I have ever made.”  I have been sailing for 67 years.

Your experience and website is a super value. I’d like to increase my annual payment to you. Thanks for doing what you do.

New member here and REALLY loving your site! Best I’ve found yet for experienced offshore cruising advice.

Attainable Adventure Cruising is the best service of its type that I know of. Please keep at it.

Your site has been a rock solid and frankly invaluable reference for us ever since we started dreaming of a cruising life. We’re now happily aboard our Allures 45…cruising the Western Isles of Scotland this summer…

This Summer was a breakthrough for my ability to maneuver the boat under power. I pulled off docking moves that I never would have attempted without your tutelage! I backed our large steel gaffer with a long bowsprit into 3 tight berths and boy were my crew impressed.

Been a subscriber for a number of years and so much appreciate the treasure trove of trustworthy information and lack of BS. I sail a Najad 373.

As a sailing instructor in 7 day intensive courses, they always ask about resources and what’s next once they get certified. AAC is at the top of my list of recommended sites and have shared it with hundreds of students.

John, just a fan saying thanks for your work and keep it up. This is fantastically interesting to my wife and me. We’ve just ordered hull # 82 from Outbound (46).

I am pruning off whatever digital services I can but I have learned so much from AAC that I use on my boat everyday that you are well worth it.

Your services are often a life saver, well at least a work saver.

You took us from Bristol, England up to the Norwegian Arctic and also provided a wealth of insights as we upgraded and maintained our trusty Rival 36. 

Thank you from the heart for the information you publish. Your webpage and ebooks have really changed my life.

I really enjoy your site. I think it is one of the best anywhere in the world. Without exaggeration.

We are a year and a half into cruising, starting with no experience. I have relied on your experience very much with good outcomes. 

I’m having to go to therapy because I’m addicted to all the wonderful articles, etc. I’ve been missing meals, calling in sick to work, staying up past my bedtime. Okay, maybe that’s stretching it. It’s just so refreshing to find such down to earth, well written articles, etc. Thank you for sharing all your experience and knowledge. I would gush some more but I’m beginning to drool on the keyboard and I fear it may become inoperable at anytime!

Great site. Great content. Love it. One of the few places one can get solid, unbiased info in a well organized way. So sick of sailing magazines pushing stupid “reviews” for advertising $$$, or forums where most people are talking out of their ass without having a clue. You should charge more.

I really appreciate your website and content – it is one of my favorites…I search and reference it often when studying specific boating issues.

Signed up for your membership when researching and learning for our own sailing adventure. We bought a (an imperfect) boat, cruised around the Caribbean for nearly 2 years with our young kids…I enjoyed your well reasoned, level headed and thorough arguments. And most importantly, I learned heaps!

Love your website – so informational and enjoyable for an amateur cruiser and sailor like myself!

I really appreciate and love what you do. I find the answers on your website that I cannot readily access anywhere else. And it is all written in a way that, given my lack of experience, doesn’t speak over my head or make me feel inadequate.

…you could at least double or triple your rates or more. Your reputation is worldwide. The value is there.

I enjoy and learn with your blog…clear and  concise. Congratulations for the job you…do with it.

Just want to take this opportunity to thank Phyllis and yourself—and Colin while I’m at it—for your excellent, dedicated, thoughtful contribution to all of our sailing lives. Nec plus ultra.

I have really enjoyed y’alls work and it has fundamentally reshaped a lot of my eduction on all subjects discussed in the articles. I’ve been building and operating boats professionally for almost 25 years, and was excited to dive into the gravy contained in Morgan’s Cloud.

Happy to renew my membership and continue to have a resource for the best information online for someone actively planning to purchase a blue water sailboat and circumnavigate in 5 years!

I just wanted to give my sincere thanks and gratitude for your great work with the site. Morganscloud.com is my absolute favorite thing on internet to read.

Keep up the good work, really appreciate all that you are doing. Looking forward to another year of great articles and insights.

I have been chartering boats for 25 years and I am about to purchase one for long range / term cruising. Your site completely addresses the online plethora of misinformation and fills the voids. Your careful deconstruction of a topic placing emphasis on facts, science and skills over confirmation bias and convenience is consistent with my commitment to safety and professionalism.

I look around my boat and see so many things that come directly from AAC. From the Spade, central jack lines, preventers, making my own tethers, and on and on. I realize how much better this boat and the setup is because of my careful reading of the site…

…thanks for so much valuable and entertaining reading at your web site. I use it all the time – and so do my sailing friends.

We rely on your monthly posts to make very important decisions on our 50′ Crowther-designed custom catamaran. It’s not only that the articles are very well researched and thorough, but it seems that you two can read our minds because you hit topics that we really need to learn!

I’m still a wanna-be ocean voyager with just a few ASA courses and a short Caribbean charter as experience.  But as I wind down a career and look to a new adventure your writings have given me confidence that if I follow your common sense advice…I will find a beautiful world. 

I am in love with your AAC, and I speak a lot of you in my French blog.

Your content is terrific – thoughtful, practical, candid and well-written, and the design of your web site and processes…start with the customer.

Your site is consistently excellent and should be regarded as the gold standard for sensible, practical and innovative thinking. However it is your approach to your subject matter and your responses to the debate, points raised, etc, is truely unique, honest and humbling.

I’m a blue water sailor and a big fan of yours, in fact I think this is the best source of information for advanced ocean sailing there is out there.

I have been reading your fantastic blog for some time now and trying to resist joining up, due to the amount of online reading I do already, but your site and your management of it is so irresistibly GOOD, that I had to bite the bullet and just joined up for 3 years.

I’m an utter novice learning to sail a Trintella 1A…Your advice has been extremely clear and sane—and, perhaps most important, reassuring.

I enjoy your site as you are a no nonsense sailor like myself. Too many sailors these days seem to have to do everything by a book, but I find like me you put logic first.

Thumbs up for the whole tether series. You have done a real service with your work in this area. I agree with your conclusions, and somewhere down the track you will have saved someone’s life.

…very much impressed indeed by the rich treasury of experience and knowledge one can find even as a long time blue water sailor. Thank you very much for all the effort and expertise you are putting into this great forum.

We are a family of four trying to get out cruising and EACH time we have made a choice not in line with your recommendations it has cost us.

Your site is the best on the internet on any subject that I have seen yet and I am glad to support it.

No nonsense, practical, yet at the same time sophisticated enough that takes us beyond the usually available babble and unsubstantiated opinions.

We are reading many sources to learn how to get our coastal cruising efforts off the ground. Nothing comes close to the quality, depth and breadth of your material. 

So why do I follow your site? It’s fascinating in the breadth and depth of content. Beautifully written, concise, astute, honest.