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| Storm Avoidance and Survival Tactics |
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Friday, April 16, 2010 |
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4:30 PM |
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Windward on Washington |
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John & Amanda Neal, Mahina Expeditions/West Marine |
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| Speaker Bio: |
John Neal sailed to the South Pacific in 1974 at age 22 on a 27' sloop, wrote Log of Mahina, a best seller, and has logged 284,000 miles. Since 1976, John's passion has been sharing his knowledge of ocean cruising and he has conducted 142 sail-training expeditions in the South Pacific, Patagonia, Antarctica, Atlantic, Scandinavia and the Arctic aboard Mahina Tiare II & III. Amanda Swan Neal grew up in Auckland and set sail for the South Pacific at age 12 aboard a boat she helped her parents 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. Amanda has logged 242,000 miles including two Sydney-Hobart Races and seven Cape Horn roundings and was involved in tall ship sail training in New Zealand prior to joining Mahina Tiare in 1994. She is author of The Essential Galley Companion. www.mahina.com. |
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Survival becomes critical when storm avoidance is no longer an option. Based on thousands of miles and decades of experience in the high latitudes of the Pacific and Atlantic including six Cape Horn roundings and the Queen’s Birthday Storm, John & Amanda Neal show you the safest survival tactics including some new radical findings. A concise 25 page text is available illustrating and detailing this seminar. |
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