Join Women and Cruising at the Annapolis Boat Show – Oct 11, 2009!

Thanks to Cruising World, we will once again be giving the Women and Cruising Seminar at the Annapolis Boat Show this Fall. It’s been a while since we have done the seminar so it will be a happy reunion for us – and for women and men who have attended the seminar in previous years and have told us they will be back again this year.

As a woman emailed us today: “I attended your seminar last year at the Annapolis Boat show and absolutely loved it.  I plan on attending again this year.”

The Women and Cruising Seminar is different every time we give it – because it all depends on who is in the audience and what questions they are concerned with. Here are some of the questions that women have asked about during the seminar:

• seasickness
• carrying health insurance and getting medical care in other countries
• what I need to know to cruise and the best ways to learn
• fears about night passages, bad weather, and pirates
• the best ages to take my kids cruising
• handling finances and mail
• getting along aboard and dealing with conflict in small spaces, yelling
• problems women singlehanders might have
• provisioning
• do we need a watermaker-refrigeration-washing machine-generator, single sideband radio
• staying fit and healthy onboard
• choosing clothes for cruising
• provisioning
• costs of cruising
• staying in touch with families
• leaving the boat in a secure place and flying home to visit family
• how much do I need to know about diesel engines, mechanics, navigation
• is cruising safe?
• … and many more topics.

Like we said, it’s different, fresh and (most of all) FUN every time! So, we hope you can be there!

You will get a copy of our Women and Cruising handout Best Tips and Resources which we will be updating for the Annapolis Boat Show.

AND we expect that there will be several more Women and Cruising contributors participating in our seminar. More on that later as we have more details on who will be there!

Here are the details:

Women and Cruising Seminar
Sunday October 11, 2009
12:00 – 1:30pm
Ballroom of the Annapolis Marriott Waterfront Hotel
Free, no advanced reservation required

See you there!

More info:

• Download the complete Cruising World 2009 US Sailboat Show (Annapolis, MD) Seminars on Sailing Schedule. There are 4 full days of free seminars with some of cruising’s most knowledgeable and interesting people including Jimmy Cornell, Beth Leonard, Don Street, Gary Jobson, Liza Copeland, Donna Lange, Lee Chesneau, Chuck Kanter, Larry Berlin, and um, us: Pam Wall and Kathy Parsons.
• Visit the website of the US Sailboat Show, Annapolis, MD, October 8-12, 2009. This will be the 40th Anniversary of the show!