Help for JC a San Diego boat worker.

My name is John Craig, most of you know me as JC, I have been a part of the waterfront and yachting community of San Diego for 40 years. I have participated on the performance teams of 4 different Americas Cups, including Team New Zealand, Il Moro de Venencia, Tag Huer, and Le Defi France. I have run Southern California boat programs such as Swiftsure, WarPath, Bad Pak, and most recently Blue Blazes to great success. I am now in my 70’s and have come upon some difficult times. The pandemic changed my ability to work while minimizing my exposure. Staying safe and healthy depleted my savings. When Covid finally abated, what was painful but workable rheumatoid arthritis in my wrists and hands had progressed to the point of being debilitating. My hands and wrists are at a point where I cannot even drive a car without extreme pain, making working on boats with my hands to be a near impossibility.

As many of you know, despite years of hard work within the marine industry, there is no boat worker pension plan. I had planned on continuing to work in various capacities for many years to come, using my skill set in electronics, navigation, deliveries, race boat prep and marine maintenance but the rheumatoid arthritis in my wrists has made this nearly impossible. I am asking for some help to make ends meet while I work on trying to get the use of my hands/wrists back to a workable level. I understand times are hard for everyone and I never thought I would find myself in this position as I am hard worker, but find myself unable to use my hands. I am also open to any opportunities to use my life long knowledge of electronics, navigation, calibration, boat prep and all things race boat in a consulting capacity as I still have all the knowledge just not the physical ability to do it on my own. Deciding to do this was a difficult decision as I am a proud person but my situation is dire so now I need to reach out to all of you. I have always tried to be there for those needing advice or a sounding board for ideas on projects they were working on and now I need your help. Anything you can spare will literally keep a roof over my head.