John’s Blogspot Archive

If you’ve read the previous post that I put up a couple of hours ago you'll know I was complaining about the weather.  Its just stopped raining...

Just a quick post today, no pics as its raining and my camera is up in the boatshed.  I have almost completed setting up the boatshed as a...

Its almost 2014, New Years eve this evening, about 9 hours to go. This year has been a horrorshow, with a few exceptions, just enough to keep me...

I had someone ask " isnt it cramped living on board a boat?" The main cabin in my ship is about 11 ft x 10 ft wide, there is a cabin forward of that...

I've moved, well, sort of.  Have an internet connection through my cellphone, have a cellphone even!  And thats a big deal as I've not had...

Its been a while, and I think that I've said that before. But life is on the move, I'm much improved on where I have been at for the last much too...

Its been much too long since I posted here,  the past year has been not as much fun as one might like, but the health issues are somewhat under...

Well, no one else would do it, I usually get things like a bar of very nice dark chocolate, maybe a bottle of tawny port or a book or two, but no...

Back on the air. A word of warning, don’t expect your email to work properly if you have a local network set up with two computers which use...

There isn't a recent photo of me about on the net, so for those who'll be attending the several gatherings where I plan to be, this is who you're...

Its the interaction with the customers that makes this job so good, lets face it, if I was only doing it for the money I'd be better off mending...

Man overboard.  Another winter job.Winter jobs, I’m not doing much sailing at present, the weather here in New Zealand never gets so bad that...