2012 Seminars
Chicago: January 28 (during Strictly Sail Chicago Boat Show; seminar price includes two day free show pass),
Seattle: March 3 at the Sea-Tac Radisson,
Oakland: April 14 (during Strictly Sail Pacific Boat show; seminar price includes free two-day show pass).
SEMINAR OUTLINE
7:45 Registration
8:30 Introduction
9:00 Getting Started in the Cruising Life: Understanding your partner
9:40 Boat Selection: Design and Construction Criteria – what makes a boat safe and comfortable for offshore voyaging
10:20 Break
10:35 Priority Equipment: Outfitting with the gear you REALLY need
11:30 Engines: Spares and Maintenance
11:40 Galley Essentials: We’re not talking about camping out!
12:00 Lunch Break
1:00 Anchors and Anchoring: Five anchoring techniques
1:15 Seamanship: Self reliance, awareness and responsibility
1:36 Storm Survival Tactics: Details of ten specific tactics
2:05 Optional Equipment: Outfitting with the cool gear that makes cruising more comfortable
2:45 Break
2:55 Rigging and Sails: Keeping the mast up and sails set
3:15 Medical: Common problems, preventions and treatment
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REGISTRATION
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Pre-registration is necessary as seminars often sell out
Registration is at 7:45
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3:35 Communications: Realities of staying in touch
3:50 Psychological: The nuts and bolts of keeping the balance
4:05 Break
4:10 Cost of Cruising: How much will this cost? Working while cruising.
4:15 Managing Your Escape: Piracy, firearms and security issues, insurance, pets, keeping a home base
4:40 Clearing into a Foreign Port: Procedures and courtesies
4:50 Leaving your boat in a Foreign Port
5:00 Worldwide Cruise Scenarios
5:30 Graduation Certificate: Questions and answers
6:45 Optional No-host Dinner: Wear your wildest, brightest tropical attire!
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THE SEMINAR CREW
Six months a year John and Amanda conduct sail-training expeditions worldwide aboard thier Hallberg-Rassy 46. This seminar incorporates the knowledge gained from their combined 564,000 sea miles and 70 years experience.
John & Amanda
 John Neal was born on the banks of Sudan's Blue Nile River. At the age of 22 his love of adventure and travel fueled a desire to sail to the South Pacific from Seattle aboard his 27' sloop. Log of Mahina chronicled his voyage and adventures and became a best seller. To answer the question he was frequently asked, How can I do what you did? he conducted his first of now 145 Offshore Cruising Seminars in 1976. In 1990, to meet the need for hands-on offshore instruction, John established Mahina Expeditions with the goal of sharing his knowledge of ocean voyaging in a safe and supportive environment. John has conducted 154 sail-training expeditions aboard his Hallbery-Rassy 42, Mahina Tiare II & his Hallberg-Rassy 46, Mahina Tiare III, sailing over 303,000 miles in the South Pacific, Caribbean, Patagonia, Antarctica, Atlantic, Scandinavia and the Arctic. John's personal interests include kayaking, trail running, cycling, yoga, swimming and flying. He holds a USCG 100 ton masters license.
Amanda Swan Neal grew up in Auckland, New Zealand and sailed to Seattle as a teenager aboard a boat she helped her family build. Upon returning to New Zealand, she became a sailmaker for Hoods and transferred professions to rigging with Noakes Rigging in Sydney, Australia then Southern Spars in NZ. In 1990 she completed the Whitbread Around the World Race (now Volvo) as rigger aboard Maiden, the first all-women Whitbread boat. Amandas 261,000 miles of international sailing include two Sydney-Hobart Races, numerous international regattas and seven Cape Horn roundings intermixed with a ten year involvement in tall ship sail-training. Upon meeting John in 1994 she joined Mahina Tiare for the Cape Horn and Antarctic expeditions. She is author of The Essential Galley Companion and since 2005 has written the monthly Galley Essentials column in 48 North Magazine. Amanda enjoys introducing women to the joys of the cruising lifestyle and her personal interests include Celtic step dancing, photography, triathlon training and sewing. She holds a NZ Commercial Launchmasters and Ocean Yachtmaster license.
Annually Amanda and John present seminars at four major boat shows as well as conducting several Offshore Cruising Seminars preparing sailors for safe, self-sufficient voyaging worldwide on their own boats.
When not at sea, John and Amanda live on San Juan Island, Washington.
 Jimmy Cornell
an accomplished sailor and successful author, Jimmy Cornell has sailed 200,000 miles in all oceans of the world including three circumnavigations as well as voyages to Antarctica, Alaska and Spitsbergen. Thousands of sailors have fulfilled their dream of blue water cruising with the help of Jimmy Cornell's books, among them the bestseller World Cruising Routes.
As the founder of the highly successful ARC transatlantic rally, Jimmy Cornell is credited with having devised the offshore cruising rally concept. Now in its 25th year, the ARC continues to be the largest, and most popular, transocean sailing event in the world. Jimmy Cornell's website www.noonsite.com, launched in 2000, is the main source of practical information for cruising sailors on the internet and attracts over one million visitors per month.
 Nigel Calder
Nigel is author of many books including Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Handbook and Marine Diesel Engines. Nigel and his wife Terrie are cruising Swedish waters aboard their Malo 46/ Nigel will only be able to join us in Oakland.
 Pete McGonagle is a marine engineer and certified processional yacht broker. He holds a USCG Unlimited Master's license and has logged over one million miles on merchant ships and 39,000 ocean miles cruising, racing and delivering sailing yachts.
A yacht broker since 1999, he founded Swiftsure Yachts in 2002 where he's assisted hundreds of sailors purchase and sell offshore-capable yachts. Pete recently completed a two year cruise of the East Coast and Caribbean waters with his wife and young son aboard Charlotte, their Perry 51 steel sloop.
COST
$179 per person · $299 per couple
Includes one 265 page Offshore Companion Book per single participant or couple.
Lunch is available nearby in Chicago and Oakland and is included in Seattle.
INFORMATION
Seminars run from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm Saturday.
Accommodations are available in hotels where seminars
are held. Hotel reservation information and map are included with
your receipt.
Many of the venues have airport shuttle service
and discount room rates for attendees.
CANCELLATION POLICY
Refund, less $35 booking fee, for cancellations received in writing more than seven days prior to seminar. Later cancellations may reschedule to a future seminar without charge.
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