The 12th Annual
Women's Boating
Seminar
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Date of Event:
February 28, 2009
Time:
8:45am - 5:30pm
New Location:
North Seattle Community
College
Room LB1141
Seattle, Washington
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The Seattle Women's Boating Seminar, now in its 12th year, is specifically for
women interested in boating, both power and sail. The
group of speakers/instructors are dedicated to sharing their knowledge
and encouraging women to have the confidence of taking the
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Join fellow women interested in boating for a high energy day that is
both fun and educational. This is a unique event that cannot
easily be explained in words and is enjoyed by women from all over
including neighboring Canada.
Thanks to all our sponsors who have
generously donated items for our door prize drawing at the end of the
day. Everyone leaves a winner this year!
This event will once again benefit
underprivileged children in South Africa by means of sponsoring several
children to attend school in 2009. We have sponsored 16
children as a result of the seminar and hope to continue with the
program in 2009.
During my visit to South Africa
in 2006 I found out about Imibala from an old high school friend of mine.
Her artist mother Donna Downie has been actively involved with this
organization for some time. This group of volunteers donates 100%
of the money they receive to help children go to school. The
future for most South African children is very bleak as a result of aids
and high unemployment. Being able to go to school is an honor for
these children and as a result we are brightening a few children's
lives. Thank you for being part of the group and making it
possible to sponsor some of these children. If you would like more
information about the program www.imibala.com.
This seminar is
presented by Judy Nasmith founder of
Latitude Sailing Association,
specializing in women's sailing education.
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Program
The programs include
lectures, slides, video presentation, hands-on experience.
Questions and interaction between instructors and participants is
encouraged.
Carolyn "Ace" Spragg grew up
sailing on the Chesapeake Bay and spent 20 years as a summer camp
Waterfront Director, teaching sailing on small boats. She moved to
the Puget Sound in 2000, and has since become a liveaboard, ISPA
Yachtmaster Instructor and Skipper of a successful offshore voyage to
Hawaii and back with all-women crew.
Sail Inventory and Handling
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Expert advice as to which
sails to take on your cruise, best time to use them and how to deploy.
Instructor:
Carol Hasse, the founder of Port Townsend Sails, is a world renowned
sail maker of quality offshore cruising sails. Carol holds a USCG
100 ton license, is an ISPA sailing instructor and has over 27 years of
sailing experience.
Traditional Navigation Skills and Smart Use of Your Electronics-
Overview of latitude/longitude, compass rose, planning a course using
dead reckoning, plotting a fix from visually sighted objects and GPS
coordinates, factoring in current. Labor-saving planning tools of chart
plotters and PC based electronic charting.
Capt. Linda Lewis, Ph.D., holds a USCG 100
Ton Master's license and is a former U of WA Professor of Nursing who
now focuses her teaching and speaking on boating. She provides
on-the-water training for power boaters- with a special emphasis on
women and couples. Linda is a Coxswain in
the USCG Auxiliary and teaches Coastal Navigation to the
public.
Keeping
the dream afloat.
Karen Thornike is the first
American woman to circumnavigate solo around the world. She been
acknowledged by Guinness with a certificate for her achievement.
Karen's log book and sextant are part of the Smithsonian's new Maritime
exhibit. She is a true inspiration for following her dream!
Keeping the Dream Afloat, Boat ownership, partnerships,
charter, local, circumnavigating, having a dream, fulfilling it.
Judy Nasmith holds a USCG 50 ton license. She is a past
Hobie 16 Women’s National Champion. Judy lived
aboard a Valiant 47 for 5 years and has enjoyed several offshore sailing
experiences. Her cruising grounds include the East coast of
Florida, Bahamas, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Fiji, Bay Islands and the
west coast of USA. She is a Seattle Yacht broker at SAS Yachts
(Sailboats at Shilshole) specializing in
cruising boats.
Terminology - Basic
knots, their uses, parts of a line, how to tie the bowline,
clove hitch, coiling, flaking, round turn and two half hitches - hands
on class with your own piece of line supplied. An introduction to
nautical lingo which will no doubt help keep you out of trouble.
Presented by Carol Hasse
and Judy Nasmith
Boat Electrical
System Basics, Your boats electrical system, what it does,
how it interacts and what your boat meters are telling you. Learn
how to avoid tripping the circuit breaker on the dock, overloading your
inverter, or draining your batteries too quickly. Presented by
Margie Simpson who has been working in the electrical field for 25 years
as an electrician, contractor, teacher and electrical system designer.
Margie has been sailing since age 4 and has lived aboard her cruising
boat since 2000.
Margie and her husband Chuck spend their summers cruising
the Inside Passage.
First
Aid at Sea, First Aid Kits Dr. Betsy Plotkin will talk about
First Aid at Sea, how to stock your first aid kit and some of the
medical issues that have come up in her cruising experience.
Betsy Plotkin, MD has been
an Internal medicine doctor for 20 years. She and her husband left
3 1/2 years ago on their Valiant 32 and have cruised over 12,000 miles
down the Pacific coast to Panama, the Galapagos and French Polynesia.
She has returned part of each year to practice medicine and share her
medical knowledge and experience with her fellow boaters.
Schedule of Events
8:45 am
9:00 am Welcome
9:00 am 10:00 am Keynote -
Carolyn "Ace" Spragg - Reaching an attainable goal.
10:15 am
11:45 am Dr. Betsy
Plotkin - Health and first aid on board, First Aid Kits.
11:45 am
12:45 am Sit down
Lunch - Cafeteria
12:45 pm 2:15
pm Terminology and
hands on knots -
Carol Hasse and Judy Nasmith
or
Managing your boats electrical system - Margie Simpson
2:25 pm 3:25
pm Sail Inventory
and Handling - Carol Hasse
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Keeping the Dream Afloat - Judy Nasmith and Karen Thorndike
3:30 pm 5:00
pm Navigation
Skills and Smart Use of Electronics - Linda Lewis
5:00pm
5:30 pm Closing remarks and drawing for valuable door
prizes.
Cost:
$90.00 per person includes refreshments, lunch and drawings for
valuable prizes.
This
being the 12th anniversary of the Women's Boating Seminar our sponsors
have been extremely generous in donating many fabulous door prizes -
thank you for your support - there will be a lot of lucky participants!
Space is limited.
Participants must pre-register and pre-pay.
Driving Directions
From I-5 take
Northgate Way exit and head west to Meridian.
Turn Left (south) at
Meridian.
Turn left into College
parking lot at 97th.
Library building is in
front of you.
Seminar room #LB1141
(Concert Hall) is to the right of Library.
Free Parking on
Saturdays.
register