Saturday, March 18
0730 – 0830 Registration, coffee/tea/cocoa &
rolls
0830 – 0840 Welcome & Introduction of Speakers—Don
& Réanne Douglass
0845 – 0855 Keynote: Introduction to the Inside
Passage—Linda Lewis
0855 – 1025 Inside Passage Routes, Northbound:
Through the Rapids, from Seattle to Skagway (includes
newest data on major ports) Don & Réanne
Douglass
1025 –1035 Break & refreshments
1035 – 1135 Getting Ready to Go: Dave Parker
1135 – 1215 Crew Issues & Provisioning Réanne
Douglass
1215 – 1255 Lunch
1255 – 1425 Tips and Updates: Linda Lewis
1425 – 1515 Dealing with the Unexpected—Safety
Issues: Bruce Evertz
1515 – 1525 Break
1525 – 1640 Maintaining & Repairing Your Boat
Underway: Brian Pemberton
1640 – 1715 Participants Q & A Session, Moderator:
Linda Lewis
1745 – 2000 Pizza, cider & beer/wine hosted
by Bryan and Laura Hennessy, Anacortes Marine Electronics,
917 Commercial Avenue, Anacortes
Sunday, March 19 (Subject to Change)
0800 – 0830 Coffee & rolls
0830 – 1000 Outer Passage Routes, Southbound from
Glacier Bay, Sitka, Prince of Wales Island; Principe
Channel to Queens Sound (with uncharted hazards) –
Don Douglass
1000 – 1030 Favorite Places Off the Beaten Track:
Réanne Douglass
1030 – 1040 Break
1040 – 1140 Anchoring Techniques: Bob Duke &
Don Douglass
1140 – 1210 Kayaking from a Mothership: Jim Kyle
1210 – 1250 Lunch
1250 – 1400 Inside Passage Weather and Staying
in Touch: Brian Pemberton
1400 – 1430 Latest Options on Email, Sat Phone,
and Systems Integration: Bryan Hennessy
1440 – 1510 Radar for Safety: Bruce Evertz
1510 – 1520 Break
1520 – 1540 Developing a Personal spares List:
Michael Beemer
1540 – 1610 Skipper's Issues with Electronic Navigation:
Open Discussion
1610 – 1710 Participants Q & A Session, Moderator:
Linda Lewis
1710 – Adjournment
Seminar Presenters
Hosts: Don Douglass & Réanne Hemingway Douglass
have logged more than 165,000 miles of cruising in the
past four decades—from 56°S to 60°N latitude—
Cape Horn to Cook Inlet and Shelikof Strait. For the
past 18 years, they have explored the west coast of
North America, documenting over 6,000 places to anchor
or tie up from the Mexican border to the Alaska Peninsula.
They have also chartered in New Zealand and France.
Don and Réanne are the authors of six Exploring
series cruising guides, published by FineEdge.com. Réanne's
classic Cape Horn: One Man's Dream, One Woman's
Nightmare has also been translated in French and
Italian.
Keynote Speaker: Linda Lewis,
Ph.D., a former U of WA Professor of Nursing,
teaches Advanced Coastal Navigation in the USCG Auxiliary.
An avid boater for 40 years (sail & power), Linda
is currently completing her testing for the USCG Captain’s
License (50 Ton Master’s). Linda and her husband,
Dave Parker, cruise the Inside Passage for three months
in the summer on their 45’ trawler (seven times).
They trade the role of Captain each year, sharing all
docking, navigation, and boat handling on a 50-50 basis.
Linda speaks at numerous boat shows and seminars and
is the former leader of the Pacific NW Chapter of Women
Aboard. Her newest interest is in providing on-the-water
training for women on powerboats.
Brian Pemberton has
cruised for over 40 years in both sail and powerboats
along the Pacific coast from Southern California to
Alaska, as well as the Atlantic Coast of France and
Spain. Brian and his wife, Carol own NW Explorations,
a premier charter company comprised of Grand Banks diesel
trawlers, which is now doing successful "Mother
Goose" guided flotillas (see www.nwexplorations.com).
Brian holds a USCG 100-ton license.
Bruce Evertz is a
veteran NW boater, retired Northwest Airlines pilot
and skipper of M/V Tapawingo. For the past
decade Bruce and his wife, Margaret, have been cruising
Northwest waters from Olympia to Glacier Bay and the
west coast of Vancouver Island in their 38' Ocean Alexander.
They have also spent three summers exploring the many
inlets of B.C.'s North Coast.
Bob Duke, author
of Cruising to Alaska: Tips & Tactics from 20
Skippers, has boated worldwide and written more
than 500 articles for national and regional boating
magazines. He has cruised to Alaska five times since
2002 and instructs an afloat Inside Passage training
course for Home Shore charters.
Jim Kyle has completed
over 80 passages between Washington State and Alaska,
having been a commercial fisherman since 1962 and a
charter vessel owner-operator since 1997. The Kyle family
converted its classic wooden fishing vessel, Home
Shore, for passenger service and now offers sea
kayak mothership tours in Alaska and Inside Passage
Training Cruises between Bellingham and Sitka (see www.homeshore.com).
Jim holds a USCG 100-ton license.
Bryan Hennessy, along
with his wife Laura, is the owner of Anacortes Marine
Electronics which specializes in total systems for boats.
Bryan and Laura and their two children cruise the San
Juan/Gulf Islands in their sailboat. AME will host their
second annual Pizza Mixer Saturday night, March 18.
Michael Beemer, owner
of Beemer's Boat Repair which specializes in electrical
systems and watermakers, is a technology and math teacher.
He has been active in educational events linked to marine
technology and is part of the Center for Excellence
in Marine Technology, an Anacortes group planning to
set up a training facility. In summers, he and his family
cruise NW waters in their Skookum motor sailor.
On
March 18 and 19, 2006, Don and Réanne Douglass
hosted the 3rd Annual Inside Passage Seminar in Anacortes
to a record attendance of 75. Ten experts shared their
intimate local knowledge of British Columbia and Southeast
Alaska with the attendees who came from seven states and
British Columbia. Boat sizes of participants represented
ranged from 22 ft. go-fast speedboats to 90 ft. yachts.
Several boaters were among those joining the 2006 Grand
Banks Inside Passage Expedition to Ketchikan, as well
as Byron Pemberton’s NW Explorations' Mother Goose
escorted expeditions to the remote outer coast of Southeast
Alaska.