November 11th, 2011

Jimmy Cornell launches Cornell’s Ocean Atlas at Chicago boat show with world cruising seminars

Jimmy Cornell will officially launch his new book Cornell’s Ocean Atlas at the Strictly Sail Chicago Boat Show in January 2012. He will offer his popular Long Distance Cruising Seminar plus shorter free seminars on a broad range of cruising topics.

Long Distance Cruising Seminar (5 hours)

Friday January 27, 2012 – 2:00 to 7:00 pm

This seminar includes 5 hours with Jimmy Cornell and a two day ticket to the show. The cost is $125.00. To pre-register, contact Kevin Murphy, kmurphy@nmma.org or 401-293-5207.

This 5 hours course includes:

Main voyage planning considerations: Heavy weather, safety concerns and piracy, common breakages, dealing with emergencies.
Practical aspects of long distance cruising: Downwind sails, cruising in the tropics, cruising around the world in stages, yacht transport.
Offshore routines: Life on board, daily routines including meals, maintenance, downwind sails, cruising in the tropics, self steering gears and autopilots, provisions, fuel and water, electricity consumption and generation, watch systems, fishing, diving and photography.
The main factors that can affect the outcome of a voyage: Essential features on an offshore cruising boat, financial considerations, crew and problems that should be avoided, cruising couples, self-sufficiency, the right attitude: from dream to reality.

Please note that attendees for the 5 hour seminar should plan to attend Jimmy’s Planning Your Dream Voyage on Friday morning as part of the short interactive seminars.

Long Distance Cruising Seminar (Complete Course: 6 hours)

Sunday January 29, 2012 – 9:00 am to 3:00 pm

This seminar includes 6 hours with Jimmy Cornell, a buffet lunch and a two day ticket to the show. The cost is $145.00. To pre-register, contact Kevin Murphy, kmurphy@nmma.org or 401-293-5207.

This 6 hours course includes:

Planning your dream voyage: Planning an offshore voyage starting from US west coast/US east coast and sailing [to the Caribbean/Panama/ Mexico/ Hawaii] … and all the way around the world. Main subjects: routing suggestions, weather routing, prevailing winds, tropical storm areas and seasons, climate change and its possible effects.
Main voyage planning considerations: Heavy weather, safety concerns and piracy, common breakages, dealing with emergencies.
Practical aspects of long distance cruising: Downwind sails, cruising in the tropics, cruising around the world in stages, yacht transport.
Lunch with Jimmy
Offshore routines: Life on board, daily routines including meals, maintenance, downwind sails, cruising in the tropics, self steering gears and autopilots, provisions, fuel and water, electricity consumption and generation, watch systems, fishing, diving and photography.
The main factors that can affect the outcome of a voyage: Essential features on an offshore cruising boat, financial considerations, crew and problems that should be avoided, cruising couples, self-sufficiency, the right attitude: from dreams to reality.
Questions and answers

Interactive seminars schedule

Interactive seminars below are FREE with the price of admission to the boat show.

Thursday January 26, 2012

Highlights of a Sailing Life (1 hour) – 4:45pm

Photographic highlights from three and a half decades of world cruising and as many circumnavigations.

Friday January 27, 2012

Planning Your Dream Voyage (1.5 hour) – 11:45pm

Planning an offshore voyage starting from USA (east or west coast) and sailing to [the Mediterranean, to the Canaries or Azores, to the Eastern Caribbean (and back), to Panama/ Mexico/Tahiti/Hawaii] … and all the way around the world. Main subjects: routing suggestions, weather routing, prevailing winds, tropical storm areas and seasons, safety and piracy, climate change and its possible effects.

Saturday January 28, 2012

Planning Your Dream Voyage (1.5 hour) – 10:30am

World Cruising Today (1 hour) – 1:00pm

An overview of the current global cruising scene with particular emphasis on the current concerns among sailors planning a longer voyage (personal safety, piracy, climate change, economic uncertainty), what can be done to avoid them and still enjoy the unique rewards provided by the opportunity of sailing the world on your own boat. Also an analysis of current sailing trends and the global movement of cruising boats, with specific numbers of boats in any of the more popular cruising destinations. Questions and answers.

Pilot Charts: Every Sailor’s Friend (1 hour) – 4:45pm

For many years pilot chart have been the most important aid for voyage planning. For the last 150 years navigators have been using them for route planning and in spite of the advances in weather forecasting and the availability of weather information while on passage, their importance has not diminished. They are still the only means of route planning to take best advantage of favourable weather conditions. Monthly pilot charts for each ocean depict mean wind direction and speed, ocean currents, and tracks of tropical storms.

Jimmy Cornell will describe the history of this, the passagemaker’s best friend, and discuss the impact of the current climate changes on the data contained in the current pilot charts. To present as true a picture as possible of the actual conditions which prevail in today’s oceans, Jimmy Cornell will launch Cornell’s Ocean Atlas at the Chicago Show. The pilot charts in this comprehensive atlas are based on extensive data collected by meteorological satellites from 1987 to the present.

Pacific Marathon: Antarctica to Alaska (1 hour) – 6:00pm

This tale begins with a cruise in Antarctica and takes us 15,000 miles north to Alaska. Having already crossed the Pacific twice from east to west, Jimmy decided to fulfil a long nurtured wish of sailing from one extreme of that great ocean to the other. With son Ivan as crew, the epic journey was accomplished in just four months so as to take best advantage of sailing conditions on both sides of the equator. Along the way they landed at Cape Horn, navigated the Chilean Canals, stopped at Easter Island, Pitcairn, the Gambier, Austral and Society Islands, the Line and Hawaiian Islands before finally reaching Alaska.

More details:

Strictly Sail Chicago website