We’ve already announced here on the blog that Pam and I will giving two free Women and Cruising seminars at the Strictly Sail Pacific Boat Show, at Jack London Square in Oakland, California on April 16 and 17.
And Amanda Swan Neal has invited you all to the seminars she will be offering at Strictly Sail.
But that’s not all. There will be over 100 seminars during the show and Women and Cruising contributors will be giving a number of them. Here are 7 more great seminars that Pam Wall, Janna Cawrse Esarey and I will be giving during the show.
Come meet us and let’s talk cruising!
(1) Cruising the French and Spanish-speaking Caribbean
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Kathy Parsons Saturday April 17 – 2:15pm Room: Compass and Sunday April 18 – 2:15pm Room: Compass |
The French and Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean provide rich and varied cruising opportunities: from Martinique and Guadeloupe’s French Creole cuisines, to inland travel through Central and South America, to the music and beauty of Cuba. Yet boaters often hesitate, faced with language and cultural differences.
With photos, hand-outs and personal stories from over a decade of travel throughout the Caribbean, author and cruiser Kathy Parsons shows how and why to fully explore these areas.
You will leave this seminar with a list of Caribbean destinations that you won’t want to miss and practical tips that will reduce cultural misunderstandings and make your travel more safe and enjoyable.
(2) Outfitting for Blue Water Cruising
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Pam Wall Saturday April 17 – 11:45pm Room: Portside |
Pam Wall has years of sailing and cruising experience. In this seminar she shares many good ideas on how to make your boat safer, more efficient, and therefore more fun.
See the many photos of good ideas on how to sail your boat efficiently, be safer, and a lot more.
(3) Family Sailing Around the World
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Pam Wall
Sunday April 18 – 2:15pm
Room: Portside
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Join Pam and Andy Wall and their two small children as they sail their 39 foot sloop around the world. This wonderful sailing family adventure took six years.
Enjoy the entertaining stories, and learn from the thrilling experiences of a family seeing the world from their own home, their boat KANDARIK.
(4) Cruising the Bahamas
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Pam Wall
Saturday April 17 – 6:00pm
Room: Regatta II
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Pam has been cruising the Bahamas for over 30 years. Come join Pam in a cruise around the Abacos in the Bahamas.
Get all kinds of good information on what to see, where to sail, and what to do in the lovely Abaco Islands in the northern Bahamas.
(5) Sail the Transatlantic on the Four-Masted Bark Sea Cloud
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Pam Wall
Sunday April 18 – 11:45am
Room: Regatta I
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Come and join the Trans Atlantic Passage of the lovely and historical yacht SEA CLOUD. This beautiful 367 foot private yacht was built for Marjorie Merryweather Post and is now a charter yacht that works the Caribbean in the winter and the Mediterranean in the summer.
Pam Wall just recently sailed from the Canary Islands to Antigua and wants to share this wonderful 16 day passage aboard the bark SEA CLOUD. Come and see what it is like to cross the Atlantic with the trade winds and enjoy the life aboard a square rigged sailing ship.
(6) The Motion of the Ocean: Funny Stories from a Salty Marriage
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Janna Cawrse Esarey
Sunday April 18 – 1:00pm
Room: Regatta II
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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!
(7) Keeping Your Onboard Relationship Off the Rocks
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Janna Cawrse Esarey
Saturday April 17 – 4:45pm
Room: Regatta II
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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.
About Kathy Parsons
Kathy Parsons is author of the books, Spanish for Cruisers and French For Cruisers, popular language guides for boaters.
Together with friends Pam Wall, Gwen Hamlin and Beth Leonard, Kathy conducts “Women and Cruising” seminars at boat shows, answering questions that women have about the cruising life.
She is the founder of this website, Women and Cruising, which provides advice, inspiration and resources for women cruisers.
Kathy Parsons has spent much of the last twenty years living aboard and sailing the US, Bahamas, Caribbean and Central America. Along the way, she has pursued a number of passions: diving, hiking, and inland travel, and learning and teaching foreign languages.
Look for Kathy in the Author’s Corner at the Boat Show.
About Pam Wall
Pam Wall works for West Marine in Fort Lauderdale. After many years of sailing around the world with her husband, Andy, and two small children, Pam has become a diplomat for West Marine by offering her knowledge to offshore cruisers.
She not only answers questions on anything to do with sailing, but can be of assistance in suggesting fun things to do, places to eat, foreign country checking in process, great places to anchor, and of course her specialty, what to take aboard your boat for safe, efficient, and fun sailing and cruising.
With many miles of cruising under her belt, Pam is a source of information for anyone to use. Her lectures at boat shows take you all over the sailing globe and give everyone who attends the desire to be out there too!
Together with friends Kathy Parsons, Gwen Hamlin and Beth Leonard, Pam conducts “Women and Cruising” seminars at boat shows, answering questions that women have about the cruising life.
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.
More info:
Strictly Sail Pacific Boat Show
Jack London Square, Oakland, CA
Thurs, April 15 – Sun, Apr 18, 2010
- Visit the Strictly Sail Pacific Boat Show website.
- View the complete seminar schedule.
- Get details on our Women and Cruising seminars.
- Read about Amanda Swan Neal’s seminars.
