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OceanPlanet News
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The bad news: If you were thinking of signing
up for February's rigging seminars at the Maine
Advanced Technology Center (MATC), you're too late. The classes
filled up so fast, we had to add a 2nd set of the two-day seminars, and then
those filled up too!
The good news: I'm decided to
offer new two-day rigging/splicing seminars: either privately, or at your
place of work, boatyard, or yacht club. The interest seems to be there,
and I like teaching rigging...so why not! Get ready for spring!contact me for more
information.
More good news!: I'm a real fan of
the Landing School in
Kennebunkport, Maine. It is a great institution and part of the
growing network of advanced training facilities here in Maine (just
like the MATC in Brunswick). So when I was invited to join a panel of
short-handed sailing friends of mine for a show on March 1st, I said
yes. I'll be rushing over from a presentation I'm doing at the University
of New England earlier in the day...but I'll be there shortly after
2pm:
Navigating New Ideas in Short-handed Sailing
A free lecture and discussion, open to the
public: Featuring Josh Hall, Brian Hancock, Bruce Schwab and Rich
Wilson
March 1, 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. at The Landing School 286
River Road, Arundel, ME - 207-985-7976 - www.landingschool.edu
Josh Hall is a co-founder of
the Portimão Global Ocean Race and has completed three solo
circumnavigations, including the Around Alone and the non-stop, solo Vendée
Globe. In addition to his own short-handed racing, he has managed the
campaigns for other toplevel, short-handed sailors in Europe and around the
world. Josh is an Ipswich, United Kingdom, native.
Brian Hancock, from Marblehead, MA, is a co-founder of
the Portimão Global Ocean Race who has sailed more than a quarter of a million
nautical miles himself. Before competing in three Whitbread round-the-world
races, he was a professional sailmaker. He has managed communications for the
EDS Atlantic Challenge, the Around Alone and the Oryx Quest 2005 races, as well
as for the maxi-catamaran Team Adventure.
Bruce Schwab is the first American ever to finish the
Vendée Globe race. He is a sailor and rigger originally from California, and now
based in Maine. He is the winner of the 1996 solo Transpac (San Francisco to
Hawaii), as well as many other ocean races, and he was the only American to
finish in Class One of the 2002/2003 Around Alone. Bruce has also been awarded
U.S. Sailing's Alfred B. Hanson medal for at-sea rescue.
Rich Wilson is a Boston, Massachusetts, native, who
holds three short-handed world records and is the recipient of the prestigious
Blue Water Medal. He also founded the sitesALIVE! Foundation, a non-profit
platform for his ongoing educational programs that link adventures and
expeditions, on land or at sea, to K-12 classrooms. Rich will compete in the
2008/2009 Vendée Globe race.
Two major short-handed races are sending sailors offshore this fall.
Hear first-hand what new technologies and strategies are involved in making a
successful sail around the globe, competing with internationally renowned,
record-breaking competitors.
See you there! |
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