John & Claudia

John has been sailing since 1964 on a variety of cruising yachts ranging from a 1911 vintage ex-international 8 metre yacht to Rafiki. He married Claudia in 1994 and introduced her to sailing through bare boat charters in the Great Lakes and the BVI. John was born in the UK and worked at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology until he came to work at the University of Wisconsin in 1993. He has spent most of his career studying the neuro and cellular biology of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and retired in October 2008. Claudia was a geneticist who also studied this organism until she retired in 1995.