Guest Speakers: Amanda and John Neal

Check in between 6:45 - 7:00.  Program starts at 7pm.

Once you register, the Zoom invite will be immediately sent to you in    a confirmation email.

Amanda and John Neal will cover sailing opportunities offered around the world with lots of photos. You’ll learn what to consider when choosing a sailing expedition plus how to determine what’s important for the next phases of growth and learning in sailing. If your focus is adventure sailing, there are many opportunities on numerous vessels worldwide. These range from crewing for someone on an ocean passage to being a paying guest on an old race boat or tall ship. They will also discuss sail-training expeditions where you are taught valuable fundamentals and skills enabling you to sail your own boat.

Amanda completed the Whitbread Race as rigger aboard Maiden, has 345,000 miles of offshore experience and is author of Marine Diesel Engine Essentials and The Essential Galley Companion. John is author, co-author or contributing author of 17 books and his 388,000 offshore miles include six Cape Horn roundings and expeditions to Antarctica, Africa, Australia and Spitsbergen. Amanda and John spend seven months at sea sailing 10,000 miles annually conducting sail-training expeditions in the South Pacific aboard Mahina Tiare III, their Hallberg-Rassy 46 or in the Pacific Northwest aboard Obelix, a Garcia Exploration 45. When not at sea, they enjoy winter kayaking from their island home at Roche Harbor. Their website is: www.mahina.com and they can be contacted at sailing@mahina.com.

A virtual Monday Lunch - please register for this event - you will receive an email with directions for joining the Virtual Monday Lunch.

Corinthian Yacht Club - Seattle

2021 Fridays in February

Program        7:00 – 8:30 pm

Location        Virtual via Zoom

Please join us this winter on Friday evenings in February, for talks and slide shows by CYC club members about their cruising adventures. This is a fun and educational way to spend a few winter evenings with friends and will inspire your own adventures. Registration is required. Meeting login information will be emailed to all registrants. $5 charge for non-members.

Topic:  Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlotte Islands Adventure

Peggy & Ron Watt, s/v Solstice.

They began their Haida Gwaii adventure on June 22, 2019 and spent most of the four weeks cruising the remote Gwaii Haanas National Park Preserve in the southern part of Haida Gwaii.  Haida Gwaii is situated about 80 miles west of British Columbia. They visited all five cultural heritage sites including the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Anthony Island (centuries old Haida Nation village ruins and totems), the Gwaii Hannas National Park reserve area at Burnaby Narrows, Hot Springs Island and more.

   

More information for this month's event will be provided closer to the time.  

Thanks,

Cindy

office@cycseattle.org

Corinthian Yacht Club - Seattle

2021 Fridays in February

Program        7:00 – 8:30 pm

Location        Virtual via Zoom

Please join us this winter on Friday evenings in February, for talks and slide shows by CYC club members about their cruising adventures. This is a fun and educational way to spend a few winter evenings with friends and will inspire your own adventures. Registration is required. Meeting login information will be emailed to all registrants. $5 charge for non-members.

Topic:  Seattle to Tonga

Cathy Sherwood & Kent Powley, s/v Coquette.  

Cathy and Kent will present the highlights of their 15 month adventure that includes: Seattle to San Francisco, the coast of California, including the Channel Islands; doing the “HaHa” (San Diego to Cabo), Mexico; Panama Posse including El Salvador and Costa Rica; Pacific Puddle Jump from Panama to French Polynesia, by way of Galapagos; and Bora Bora to Tonga with a stop at Palmerston atoll, Cook Islands. Currently they are landlocked stateside until they can return to their boat in Tonga and continue their Pacific loop.                                    

                                                           

More information for this month's event will be provided closer to the time.  

Thanks,

Cindy

office@cycseattle.org

Corinthian Yacht Club - Seattle

2021 Fridays in February

Program        7:00 – 8:30 pm

Location        Virtual via Zoom

Please join us this winter on Friday evenings in February, for talks and slide shows by CYC club members about their cruising adventures. This is a fun and educational way to spend a few winter evenings with friends and will inspire your own adventures. Registration is required. Meeting login information will be emailed to all registrants. $5 charge for non-members.

Topic: 

COVID Summer in The San Juans

Mike McGuane & Karen Mooney, m/v Rissa, and Mara & Greg Barckert, s/v Mara  

Mike and Karen spent four months working from their boat in the San Juan Islands last summer.   Join them as they share tips for staying sane when your salon is also your office, the eternal search for internet connectivity, managing hotspot data, favorite locations and their ongoing attempts to improve workspace ergonomics.

Mara and Greg usually head to Desolation Sound for a month every summer but the border closure kept them in the San Juan’s in 2020. They spent time on their Buchan 37 along with Mara’s parents and sister's family on their J40; and, even rafted up with a few other friends while maintaining social distance.  They will share favorite spots to anchor for exploring with kids onboard and ways to manage cabin fever when socializing is limited.