Biography

John Clifton Wright (Capt. John - sailor, author,and lobbyist) (born 1948 - ) is best known in the trades as "Capt. John". He is an accomplished world sailor and most popular for his 5 voyages around America's Great Loop. Capt. John is a licensed USCG Captain and the author of America's Great Loop and Beyond, Caribbean Island Hopping, The Frugal Voyager, Looping on $15.00 a Day, and America's Great Loop Fingertip Facts. His books are published by Anchor Publishing, U.S.A Capt. John was born John Clifton Wright, and raised on a farm near Terrell, Texas. He attended Terrell High School, Dallas Baptist College, and served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War as Warrant Officer and Helicopter Pilot. He later graduated from East Texas State Teacher's College, and attended Harvard in Boston, MA. He retired in 1993 as Senior Marketing Executive with Honeywell Information Systems Inc. With a lifelong passion for boats, boating and boat building, Capt. John spends his retirement years cruising America's Great Loop and spending winters in the southern Florida and the Caribbean. As a passionate Great Loop promoter, Capt. John maintains the most popular Great Loop website on the Internet. He is also an active Government lobbyist and promoter for keeping the Great Loop open for navigation through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that links the Great Lakes to the Illinois river and the Mississippi river basin, where an Asian Carp invasion threatens a hard lock closure of the USCG's Electronic Fish Barrier on the connecting navigable waterway.

Books

BYOB Bring Your Own Boat Trilogy

• America's Great Loop and Beyond(2012)
• Caribbean Island Hopping (2013)
• The Frugal Voyager (2014)

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