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| Mediterranean Magic |
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Saturday, April 17, 2010 |
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11:45 AM |
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Compass |
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Liza Copeland, Author's Corner |
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| Speaker Bio: |
Liza is a lifelong sailor both cruiser and racer. In 1973 she married Andy in the Caribbean aboard the classic yacht Ticonderoga and they have since sailed over 140,000 miles together, including a circumnavigation with their three children. Cruising around North and Central America followed then they were lured back across the Atlantic for a family wedding. After another seven years in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, West Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean and currently in the Pacific Northwest, their Beneteau Bagheera has taken them 116,000 n.miles to 114 countries. Liza is the award-winning best-selling author of four cruising books. Just and Still Cruising recount their world travels with Comfortable Cruising describing their voyage around North and Central America. Their popular Cruising for Cowards is an inclusive technical and practical A-Z for cruisers whether coastal voyaging or offshore. Liza writes for a variety of yachting magazines, gives seminars at major boat shows and to a number of clubs and organisations. When not sailing the oceans of the world, leading cruising groups or touring giving talks on boating and travel, she lives in Vancouver, BC. |
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The Mediterranean is another favorite area that Liza has spent five years cruising full-time and continues to visit every year. The seminar includes physical features and scope of the Mediterranean Sea, weather patterns and forecasting, and routes to get there. Specific country information includes piloting, officialdom and cruising fees, harbours, moorage and anchorage, boating facilities afloat and ashore, boat repair and equipment, facilities and sightseeing ashore and cultural information and tips. Insurance requirements, communications resources and differences, power and fuel options, security, cruising nets and leaving the boat long term, as you will definitely wish to stay longer, will also be addressed. |
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