John has logged well over 30,000 nautical miles at the helm on the North Atlantic, North Pacific and South Pacific oceans, as well as in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and in the Gulf of Alaska. John has also logged over 1,000 hours on the Cape Fear River of North Carolina.
John’s longest non-stop high seas passage covered 5,000 miles from the Galapagos to Hilo Hawaii in just over 31 days.
He has transited the Panama Canal four times and has stood watch in the eyes of three CAT 3 hurricanes both at sea and at anchor.