Jon was really a special person. Not just a sailor, photographer, or writer -- he loved to share, to learn, to teach, and to experience life at his own pace. He was self sufficient, smart, not envious, thoughtful, and a dependable person.

Most of you here probably saw into his personality and experiences from his series of posts. Those showed his self-effacing nature, his avoidance of any rudeness, his variety of experience, his keen eye and wit, and his amazing ability to communicate.

Just "Search" above for "Post by Author" and you'll see a hint of his personality.

I think that everyone that met or interacted with him was better for it; and, everyone that looked at the products of think and eye knows more from them.

He would occasionally and seemingly casually sail his Chancy in the winter from his NJ home to Central America; and from NJ up into Labrador a few years later.

Over the years, as Jon and I would speak, we would discuss various sailors, their views, their communications, their deeds and misdeeds. Jon would give some of them his highest (and, as usually) understated praise: Jon would call them "the real thing".

Jon was our "real thing".