Meet Janna Cawrse Esarey at the 2010 Seattle Boat Show

Here’s a great opportunity to meet another Women and Cruising friend:

Janna Cawrse Esarey will be speaking at the 2010 Seattle Boat Show, January 29 – February 6, 2010, at Qwest Field.

Janna is the author of The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman’s Search for the Meaning of Wife.

Gwen Hamlin and I both read Motion and thoroughly enjoyed it. Janna has a great sense of humor, and she certainly captures the dynamics of cruising, especially that of a couple learning to live together on a small boat. I highly recommend it!

Janna will be giving seminars on Sunday and Monday. Monday is Women’s Day at the Boat Show!

Here are the details of Janna’s seminars:

Writing and Sailing: From Blog to Book and Everything In Between

Sun, Jan 31, 2:15 pm, Red Stage

Ever dreamed of writing the next great sea story? Want to see your name in by-lines? Need advice on boat blogging? This hands-on seminar will help. We’ll start small (blogs, queries, your favorite sailing rags) and end big (book proposals, manuscripts, publication). Open to experienced writers and armchair writers alike.

The Motion of the Ocean

Mon, Feb 1, 3 pm, Green Stage

Janna Cawrse Esarey will show photos and read from her travel memoir, The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, & a Woman’s Search for the Meaning of Wife (Simon & Schuster 2009). It’s the humorous, true story of a couple that honeymoons across the Pacific on a beat-up, old boat—only to find that sailing 17,000 miles is easier than keeping their relationship off the rocks. If you’re interested in blue-water cruising, boating as a couple, women aboard, or just want a good laugh, come join us!

Keeping Your Onboard Relationship Off the Rocks

Mon, Feb 1st, 5 pm Green Stage, and 6:15 pm Red Stage

You love your spouse. You love your boat. Why can’t you three get along? Take heart, even the happiest union strains under onboard pressures; our friends call their boat the Divorce Machine. This hands-on seminar will help you identify potential pitfalls and give you tools for boating better together. Topics include the Pink and the Blue, Boat Hygiene, Romance on Watch, Divorce Docking, and most importantly, What She’s Actually Thinking. This seminar is intended for anyone—sailors, powerboaters, racers, cruisers, men, women—who would like to sail happily ever aboard with a loved one.

And here is the same schedule organized by day, so you can plan your visit to the Seattle Boat Show:

About the Seattle Boat Show:

Seattle Boat Show – Qwest Field – Fri, January 29 – Sat, February 6, 2010

Visit the Seattle Boat show website

View the complete seminar schedule.

See the list of Janna’s seminars at the Seattle Boat Show.

About Janna Cawrse Esarey

Janna Cawrse Esarey is a teacher by training, a writer by day, and a sailor by luck.

Her book, The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, & a Woman’s Search for the Meaning of Wife (Simon & Schuster 2009), is the humorous true story of a couple that honeymoons across the Pacific on a beat-up, old boat—only to find that sailing 17,000 miles is easier than keeping their relationship off the rocks.

Janna’s work appears in sailing magazines, such as Cruising World, Blue Water Sailing, and 48 North, and travel anthologies, most recently More Sand in My Bra.

She blogs about work-life-love balance for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer at “Happily Even After.” Janna was selected as a 2008 Jack Straw Writer and currently performs the juggling act of writer, mom, and wife—only dropping a few balls daily. Visit her at http://www.byjanna.com.