Bermuda Adventurer On Top of the World
Bermudian photographer and adventurer John Harries is on top of the world — almost literally — as he continues to explore Arctic waters aboard his aluminum cutter “Morgan’s Cloud”, named after the daytime cloud which forms over Bermuda.
Mr. Harries, 60, who ran computer businesses in Hamilton before embarking on what’s turned into an almost 20-year-long odyssey exploring the northern latitudes, is profiled this month in the boating magazine “Soundings”
“Harries grew up sailing in Bermuda and was what he calls a ‘serial entrepreneur’ who started successful computer and printing businesses, among others,” said the magazine. “He raced often — inshore and offshore, on big boats and small …
Mr. Harries, who is now based in Canada, and companion Phyllis Nickel [pictured together at top] received the Cruising Club of America’s prestigious Far Horizons award in 2008 for their “extensive cruising and voyaging” – explorations of Greenland [where 'Morgan's Cloud' is seen surrounded by icebergs below]; two Newfoundland circumnavigations; their cruises to Labrador, Iceland and Norway; and two transatlantic passages via Iceland.
The Bermudian maintains a website to share his experiences and photography — as well as to provide advice to other aspiring seagoing adventurers.
“ He says the website’s chief goal is to take the misadventure out of adventure — to the extent it’s possible — so the cruiser can have a ‘good time’, which is, after all, the aim of recreational voyaging,” said “Soundings”. “He and Nickel firmly believe that the key to having a good time offshore is to be properly prepared. Poor or simply uninformed preparation is a ‘recipe for tears’, Harries says.”
Copyrighted photographs by John Harries
