John’s Blogspot Archive

We’ve  started a Facebook page,  I’d tried to do that a couple of years ago but got annoyed at how many emails it dumped into my inbox and...

Three minutes and forty four seconds. Not a lot, you cant do much in that small amount of time.  I can type about 100 words, walk a hundred and...

Its the shortest day of the year today, here in the southern hemisphere anyway.  Its calm after the mayhem that yesterdays fast moving winter...

Camp cruising I love camp cruising, began my cruising career in a then 40 year old open 14 ft sailing dinghy with a damp kapok sleeping bag, a very...

A grumble and other things. Just recently over on the jwbuilders yahoo group, there was some discussion about temporary shelters in which to build a...

Home again. It’s a long way home from Vancouver to my ship in Auckland, Skytrain in Vancouver (great public transport, quick, quiet and cheap! Well...

Blog. Desolation Sound, British Columbia. Jackie and I found each other ok at Vancouver airport and the flight across to where we were to pick up...

RAID Dates and other news. Time to book leave from work, family or any other excuses for not coming along. 29 January to 6 February. Raid to be run...

I was surprised to be asked.  Complimented too, you've no idea. I’ve a trip coming up, I’m to skipper a charter motor cruiser in Desolation...

I’m home again, the little ship here on the river really does feel like home.  Waking in the morning to look out from my bunk and watch the light...

Last summerI made a half hearted attempt to organise a group of friends to go cruising in small boats, researched the area, campsites, routes and...

I designed my Navigator design quite a few years back now, originally designed as a race trainer which would teach late teen aged sailers the basics...