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2012 WINTER SAILING SEMINARS
It may be cold and the boats are out of the water, but we can still get together and do some vicarious sailing. Part of the joy of sailing is learning "new stuff", and this years presenters will have you better prepared than ever for the upcoming 2012 sailing season.  Utah Lake State Park Visitor's Center
4400 West Center Street Provo, Utah Thursdays 7:00 - 8:30 PM Our winter Sailing Seminars are free and begin on January 19th at the Utah Lake State Park Visitor's Center. (No park entrance fee). It will be nice to see everyone again.
Jan 26 Sailing the Inside Passage to Alaska. Erwin OertliJan 19 Offshore Passage Making. Doug Hendricks If you've ever thought about sailing across an ocean then this seminar is for you. You'll find out what "blue water sailing" is like and what skills, equipment, and preparations are needed to make the voyage safely. This seminar is a condensed version of the Offshore Passage Making class that one of Bonneville's instructors, Douglas Hendricks, will be teaching this spring. Then in the summer Doug will take select crew (could it be you?) on his 42' sailboat for an unforgettable week-long ocean passage from Virginia to Bermuda. Even if you aren't able to join the Bermuda trip in the summer this seminar will still be of great interest to people who are contemplating sailing out on the big bad ocean. Click on Offshore Passage Making for more details. Sailing the west coast of Canada, known as the Inside Passage, is a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. From August 6-24, 2011, Erwin completed a voyage from Prince Rupert, British Columbia to Juneau, Alaska and back aboard his Hobie 33. Erwin has also completed several other voyages around Vancouver Island, along the British Columbia coast, and in the Sea of Cortez in the Hobie and in a 38-foot Seafarer cutter-rigged ketch, which he also sailed in the Caribbean. Erwin's Hobie is based in Utah Lake during the summer, with occasional side trips to Strawberry Reservoir in years when the water is low in the lake. Feb 2 Shipwrights Workshop. “Boatbuilding Techniques from 100 years ago.” Dewitt Smith Recent TV shows such as “How’d They Do It” sparked the idea for an evening seminar on wooden boat construction techniques from years gone by… Members from the Boatbuilder’s Workshop in Salt Lake City will share their knowledge of: 1 - Joggle Sticks and Fairing Battens, 2 – Making up a watertight plank seam, 3 – Filling a screw hole with a bung, 4 – Making Marine Paint and 5 – Twist-laid ropework. Everyone gets to share this hands-on experience using methods of boatbuilding: design & layout, using a caulking iron & mallot, hiding fastners, finishing your boat in traditional fashion, and making up rigging in manila line. Come see “how they did it”! DeWitt has been building boats of all types since he was a teenager. If you have even the slightest curiosity of how boats are designed, constructed or repaired, this will be a great seminar to attend. Feb 9 Doyle Sails. Bill Colombo Doyle Sails, made right here in the good old USA, is one of the premier sail makers known around the world . . . from racing to cruising sails, from one design to the latest innovations. Bill will be flying out from San Francisco to teach us a thing or two about sails, sail materials, care and repair. This is the off season for Doyle Sails too, so Bill will be bringing special "Off Season" deals to our inland sailing community. A great opportunity to upgrade your worn out inventory. Feb 16 How to make your sailboat fly. Tim Adams A past lecturer and instructor with Bonneville, Sailors World Instructor and Ocean Racer, Tim is going to explain the fascinating world of aerodynamics, as applied to sailboat airfoils moving in a fluid environment. If you want to understand how your boats works, Tim will introduce you to some fascinating functions of sails, keels and rudders. Feb 23 The Great Escape. Chartering in the San Juan Islands. Mark Gillis As an independent charter company, Mark Gillis has contacted Bonneville about offering extremely reasonable charter rates aboard his 42’ Valiant. An experienced gunkholer, Mark has area charts of unknown anchorages and off the beaten path points of interest in the San Juan’s. Mar 1 Sailing Distant Oceans. Long Beach to Catalina Island. A video presentation of Bonneville’s inaugural Adventure Cruise to Santa Catalina Island, 2011. Special offers for our next Catalina Adventure Cruise for those in attendance at this seminar. Mar 8 Sailing Distant Oceans II. The SEAquel - return to the BVI’s. Mike Harmer Last year, Mike presented the best attended seminar of the series. We figure the seaquel will be as good or better. Forget the winter blahs and escape to the sunny Caribbean with us. Special prizes for the best Aloha shirt. |
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