John Rushworth's Excellent Adventures
About - John Rushworth
John is a qualified Master and Engineer. I live on the beautiful Isle of Bute. I hold an RYA/MCA Yachtmaster Offshore CoC (Certificate of Competence) for both power and sail, STCW commercially endorsed to 200gt along with an MEOL (Y) CoC in Marine Engineering. These are to the standards laid down by the
MCA (Maritime and Coastguard Agency) and the International Convention on
STCW (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping).
Vessels I've worked on recently include:-
Llandudno Bay,
Penrhos Bay,
Wylfa Head,
Carmel Head,
Colwyn Bay,
Cemaes Bay and
Porth Dinllaen.
In my twenties I was an
RN Marine Engineering Artificer, my thirties an ROV pilot, forties an
IT consultant, motorcycle journalist, tester and tour guide. When fifty dawned I became a health and fitness instructor, qualifying with
YMCAfit to
CYQ Level 2, Certificate in Fitness Instructing Gym - all for fun and to find out what all that training was doing to my body!
After that I
dipped my toe in the water with my own boats whilst working for IBM. I lived aboard
Set Fair (Seamaster 30) on the Clyde in 2007 and then
Atlantic Dawn (NB 840 Classic) in 2008/09 whilst
cruisng the west coast of Scotland , Crinian and Caledonian canals with friends and family. I ended up and had great fun at
Whitehills Harbour,
whilst I worked in Aberdeen. After that I moved along to
Inverness Marina. In 2010 I delivered a
Victoria 800 from Falmouth
to the west coast of Scotland via Wales, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
I retain a lifelong passion for
motorcycles. I currently run a
Suzuki DRZ400 Supermoto. A
Mini Cooper recently provided buckets of fun, in a two wheel gap year.
I'm an avid and early adopter of toys and technology. I enjoy writing, with many technical and adventure holiday articles published. My hobbies include
Masters
Swimming and
music.
Me - my
namesake - the
author -
an
ancestor and why
Bradford’s Coat of Arms features the only Boars Head in Heraldry
without a tongue. Yorkshiremen also have a sense of
humour.
John's Amazon
motorcycle and
swimming
book links.
Contact - John Rushworth
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