2011 Seminars
Chicago: Jan. 29
Seattle: April 2
Oakland: April 16
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
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!
THE SEMINAR CREW
John & Amanda
John Neal was born on the banks of Sudan's Blue Nile River, but sailed away from Seattle on a 27' sloop to the South Pacific in 1974 at age 22, wrote Log of Mahina, a best seller, and has since sailed 272,000 miles. Since 1976, John's passion has been sharing his knowledge of ocean cruising to exotic locations. John has conducted 133 sail-training expeditions since 1990 in the South Pacific, Patagonia, Antarctica, Atlantic, Scandinavia and the Arctic aboard Mahina Tiare II & III. John's personal interests include kayaking, trail running, cycling, swimming, flying and studying history.
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 and rigger, completing the Whitbread Around the World Race as rigger aboard Maiden, the first all-women Whitbread boat. Following the Whitbread, Amanda continued as an international sailor, logging 230,000 miles including two Sydney-Hobart Races and seven Cape Horn roundings. Amanda was involved in tall ship sail training in New Zealand for ten years prior to joining Mahina Tiare in 1994. She author of The Essential Galley Companion and enjoys introducing women to the joys of the cruising lifestyle. Amanda's personal interests include photography, Celtic step dancing, triathlon training and sewing.
Amanda writes the monthly "Galley Essentials" article for 48 North magazine and both John and Amanda write for Cruising World, Blue Water Sailing and Latitude 38. Amanda holds New Zealand Commercial Launchmaster and Ocean Yachtmaster licenses and John holds a USCG masters license.
Annually Amanda and John present seminars at three 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.
INFORMATION
Seminars run from 8:00 am to 6:30 pm Saturday. Registration is at 7:45.
Accommodations are available in hotels where seminars
are held. Hotel reservation information and map are included with
your receipt. Pre-registration by mail or telephone is necessary
as seminars often sell out.
COST
$179 per person · $299 per couple
Includes one 265 page Offshore Companion Book per single participant or couple. Lunch is available nearby in Philadelphia and is included in Seattle and Oakland.
CANCELLATION POLICY
Refund, less $30 booking fee, for cancellations received in writing more than seven days prior to seminar. Later cancellations may reschedule to a future seminar without charge.
TO REGISTER by phone, contact Armchair Sailor 1-800-875-0852 or click here to register online
This 10 hour course is packed with information
that has taken the presenters years to acquire. Presented logically,
intelligently and professionally, the course includes lectures,
charts, diagrams, Power Point images and an invaluable 265
page Offshore Cruising Companion notebook. The seminar atmosphere
encourages questions and interchange with the instructors, as
well as with other participants.
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