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Updated February 7, 2010 Winds and Waves -- Winter Boating Seminar Series
2010: 7 PM, Saturday February 6, 2010 at the Haviland Club: "The Loop". Joe and Mary Beth Amelia completed the Loop Atomic 4-powered 30' Morgan sailboat from PEI, more than 6,000 nautical miles up then down the rivers, to the Gulf of Mexico, and home to PEI via the eastern seaboard, from June 2008 to June 2009. They gave a delightful and informative presentation, full of lessons for short and long range cruisers. http://www.joeamelia.ca/
2009: The good, bad and ugly of boating – Lessons from a lifetime on the water. Retired Canadian Hydrographic Service scientist Dave DeWolfe is a hydrographic consultant and Canadian Yachting Association advanced cruising course instructor in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. He is a member of Canadian Power & Sail Squadrons, and has taught their core courses. Dave has cruised the Caribbean and Central America, and conducted hydrographic surveys on all three Canadian coasts and Antigua. A lifetime on the sea taught him much about the right and wrong way of doing things. He passed along mostly the good and some important bad to a fascinated audience, mixing learning with travelogue.
2008: History of Charlottetown Harbour. Our speaker this year was Harry T. Holman, sailing skipper and PEI Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries. His superb slides and talk covered the period to 1938, including early history of the Charlottetown Yacht Club and recreational boating in Charlottetown. Owing to the size of the audience,we moved Winds and Waves to the Charlottetown Curling Club this year. His talk was enthralling, recalling the days of sail that dominated PEI life in the early days, and the impact of steam and petroleum engines. One of the audience summed it up perfectly when she emailed us later: "Thank you, Harry, for giving us back our harbour".
2007: By Sail through the Northwest Passage. Peter Nelson, avid Nova Scotia sailor and racer, gave a fascinating, down-to-earth talk about sailing during the Arctic's short 6-week summers in August and September. He and crewmate Barry helped owner Peter Brock to sail Minke, a 42-foot steel hull sailboat, eastward through the Northwest Passage during two of the three years it took to cross the Arctic. Peter Brock had sailed Minke from Nova Scotia clockwise through the Caribbean to Alaska during previous years, heading for a circumnavigation of North America. Over two late summer treks in 2005 and 2006, Peter assisted as the athletic Peter Brock, then in his 70's, as they moved Minke eastward between winter harbours, carefully negotiating summer ice and lonely Arctic winds. Minke became the seventh sailboat under 50' to successfully complete the Passage without assistance. Owner Peter Brock was the Nova Scotia Yachting Association's Sailor of the Year in 2006. Seminar Location: Haviland Club. 2006: By Sail to Greenland. Geoff Ralling, Charlottetown blue water cruiser, gave an enthralling talk with spectacular slides, describing his trip from Charlottetown to Greenland and back in the summer of 2005. He and a crew member sailed their family's Aloha Be Faithful II over 4,000 nautical miles, earning a rightful spot in PEI's sailing hall of fame. Geoff had previously sailed to Newfoundland and the Bahamas. Seminar Location: Haviland Club. 2005: Winds, Waves and Currents in the Northumberland Strait -- A Fireside Chat with Professional Mariners and Other Salts. The Squadron assembled a blue ribbon panel of experienced PEI mariners, including ferry captains, a professional fisherman, a faculty member from the marine school at Holland College, a professional yachtswoman, and a long-time yacht owner and racer. They shared their combined decades of experience on the water with a fascinated audience. Seminar Location: Haviland Club.
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