Biography

Meet....John Macaulay

Specialist Area Of Work

Q: When did you join Haven Knox-Johnston?

A: 4 March 1996

Q: What’s the best bit of the job for you?

A: The people and staff I deal with day-to-day.

Q: What sort of boat do/did you own/sail?

A: A Hanse sailing yacht.

Q: How did you get into sailing?

A: From the age of seven, school holidays were always spent sailing on my Dad’s boat. 

Q: What’s been your greatest sailing experience?

A: Completing the Fastnet race.

Q: Got any future sailing ambitions?

A: Family cruising around the French coast in the summer.

Q: Where would you say is the best place to have fun on the water? Canoeing in Kent? Banana-boating in Benidorm?

A: Any bit of water will do. 

Q: What’s your favourite boat-related film, book or song, and why?

A: ‘A World of My Own’ by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. Just an incredible achievement.

Q: And finally… what’s your favourite riverside pub?!

A: The Jolly Sailor.

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