Long Distance Cruising Master Class including Planning Your Dream Voyage (6 hours)

Saturday February 18, 2012 – 9:00am to 3:00 pm
Aboard the Biscayne Lady at Miamarina at Bayside.

$155.00 per person. The cost of the seminar includes 6 hours with Jimmy Cornell, a 2-day ticket to the show and buffet lunch aboard the Biscayne Lady at Miamarina at Bayside.

Master Class Syllabus:

• Planning your dream voyage: Planning an offshore voyage starting from US east or west coast and sailing to the Caribbean, Panama,  Mexico, or Hawaii … and all the way around the world. Routing suggestions, weather routing, prevailing wind patterns, 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