Join us for a full day of interesting, informative presentations by women for women, geared to boaters of both power and sail persuasions. This year&0146;s seminar focuses on cruising, both preparing for a cruise and skills to enhance enjoyment once underway. A great opportunity to meet other women boaters to expand your horizons!

Registration is $35, and includes lunch and a chance to win valuable door prizes. Nearby parking is available.

Sponsorship opportunities are also available.

Check back soon for program updates!

Registration is $35 for the full day of activities, and may be paid by check or credit card.

If paying by check, please print the registration form and mail the completed form with check to:
    Women’s Boating Seminar - Registration
    c/o South Sound Sailing Society
    P.O. Box 1102
    Olympia, WA 98507

Credit card payments will only be accepted for on line registration. There is an aditional $2 charge to cover processing costs, which is non refundable.

Registration is limited to 60 participants and closes on Wednesday, May 12. Full refund of the registration fee may be made for cancellations before Saturday, May 12; no refunds will be made for cancellations after May 12.

Questions? Contact the Women’s Boating Seminar committee.

Limited free parking is available on nearby streets. Parking at a charge of $2.00 for the day will be available in at the Diamond Parking Lot ½ block south of the Olympia Yacht Club, at the corner of Simmons St. NW and 4th Ave. NW, across from Bayview Thriftway Market. Please do not park in the Olympia Yacht Club parking lot or the Bayview Market parking lot; your car will be ticketed and/or towed if parked in either of these lots.

Sponsorship

Women are the fastest-growing segment of the boating community. The full-day seminar is a great opportunity for you and your company to connect with this potential customer base by promoting your services and products through sponsorship. Sponsoring businesses will be listed in promotional and program materials, reaching a wide audience of seminar participants — and beyond.

Your generosity ensures lower registration fees for the seminar, so that more women with an interest in boating, including high school students, can explore being on the water with confidence.
A range of opportunities are available:

• Skipper – Donation over $300
  
• Mate – Donation $200 - $299
  
• Bosun – Donation $100 - $199
  
• Crew – Donation $99 and under
  

Download the Sponsorship form and mail the completed form to:
   Women’s Boating Seminar, Sponsorship
   c/o South Sound Sailing Society
   P.O. Box 1102
   Olympia, WA 98507

For more information regarding sponsorships for the Women’s Boating seminar, contact Mary Fitzgerald at (360) 754-1516 or wbs@ssssclub.com.

The 2011 Seminar is over.
Below is that agenda, speakers, and sponsors, to give you an idea of what the Seminars are like.
We will have this year’s topics and speakers when they confirm.

Report on the Seminar : Photos

• 8:00 – Registration
• 8:30 – Opening remarks
• 9:00 – First session: No Impact Docking! – Carolyn "Ace" Spragg
• 10:45 – Break
• 11:00 – Second session
  • Clubhouse: What’s Knot to Like? - Vicky McCarley
  • Boathouse: Two Heads are Better than None – Capt. Mary Fitzgerald & Capt. Mary Campbell
• 12:00 – Lunch
• 1:00 – Third session
  • Clubhouse: Captaincy, Captain Kirk or Captain Bligh? – Capt. Nancy Erley
  • Boathouse: Romancing the Outboard, Part II – Alison Mazon
• 2:15 – Break
• 2:30 – Fourth session
  • Clubhouse: The Safe Boat– Lynne Reister
  • Boathouse: Care and Maintenance of Inflatable Dinghies – Lisa Selfridge
• 3:30 – Break
• 3:45 – Capstone speaker: My Life in Sails – Carol Hasse
• 4:45 – Door-prize drawings and other announcements of interest
• 5:00 – Dismiss

Registration : Program : Speakers

Skipper level
Summers Yacht Services, Inc.
Olympia Yacht Club Foundation

Mate level
The Armchair Sailor : http://www.armchairsailorseattle.com
48 Degrees North : http://www.48north.com
Northwest Yachting : http://www.nwyachting.com
Nor’westing
Barbara Emmons
Chiechi & Associates www.chiechi.org

Bosun level
Alison Mazon : http://www.alisonmazon.com/
Fisheries Supply, http://www.fisheriessupply.com
Mary Campbell
Phil's Diving Service
Char McLain, State Farm Insurance : http://online2.statefarm.com/b2c/sf/agent/47/2824
Helly Hansen Outlet, Centralia www.hellyhansen.com
West Marine Olympia
Tacoma Women’s Sailing Association, www.twsa.org

Crew level
Foss Harbor Marina : http://www.fossharbor.com
Olympia Wine Merchant
West Marine Tacoma : www.westmarine.com
Port of Bremerton : www.portofbremerton.com
Olympia Supply Co. www.olympiatruevalue.com
Cascade Radiant Massage
Meconi’s www.meconissubs.com
Gamache Vintners www.gamachevintners.com

Sponsorship opportunities are available.

9:00 Clubhouse
A detailed presentation that takes you step-by-step through docking procedure, including handouts and practice progressions so that you can dock with confidence.

11:00 Clubhouse
Knots? Hitches? Bends? Learn the difference and how to tie the most commonly used in a seawoman-like manner!

11:00 Boathouse
Capt. Mary and Micki team up to help you understand one of the most daunting systems onboard! Learn how to keep yours fully functional, and what to do when it’s not.

1:00 Clubhouse
Traditional rules of hierarchy don’t apply today so what works instead? Is the boat owner necessarily the best person to be the captain? In addition to captaining two 5-year circumnavigations, Nancy brings to this presentation insights gained as an adjunct professor for Denver University’s Executive MBA leadership intelligence program.

1:00 Boathouse
Alison returns with a hands-on version of last year’s popular outboard presentation. Learn to make that outboard purr!

2:30 Clubhouse
What keeps your boat afloat? Lynne discusses what to look for to ensure safe boating for you and your crew, and suggests safety checklists and schedules to stay on top of critical items.

2:30 Boathouse
Lisa will discuss how to tell the difference between Hypalon and PVC boats, along with the pros and cons of each. She will describe different hull types and factors to consider of different styles. Lisa will talk about proper inflation techniques, cleaning and maintenance, and how to use a field patch kit.

3:45 Clubhouse
Carol shares stories of work and play inspired by adventures under sail, our grand sailing community and S/V Lorraine, her 25-foot wooden Folkboat.

Registration

Nancy Erley has led two voyages from Seattle around the world aboard her Orca 38 sailboat, Tethys. George Day, publisher of Blue Water Sailing magazine, says, “As the skipper of an all-woman crew, Nancy fashioned a circumnavigation that should go down in the record books as one of the soundest, most seamanlike journeys in the modern cruising era. Like all competent voyages, Tethys’ circumnavigation was notable for its lack of disasters.”

Founder of Tethys Offshore, Nancy teaches the skills to take a small boat across an ocean, from competent crew to ocean skipper. She holds her USCG 50-ton Master of Oceans and 100-ton Master Near Coastal licenses, is an Instructor Evaluator-Ocean for the International Sail and Power Association, a ham radio operator (ki7dp), and an advanced scuba diver and delivery skipper.

In 2006, Nancy was presented with the Leadership in Women’s Sailing Award sponsored by BoatUS and the National Women’s Sailing Association. The award honors a male or female who has built a record of achievement in inspiring, educating and enriching the lives of women through sailing.

Nancy is now in the Pacific Northwest scheduling learning cruises for women aboard Tethys. She also offers private instruction aboard the learner’s boat for both men and women, ocean deliveries as captain or onboard advisor, and voyaging consultation.

Capt. Mary Fitzgerald started sailing at the age of eight on an 8 ft. Sabot sailboat that her father purchased at a garage sale for $50. The family heritage has always included sailboats, which is evident in old photos collected from her grandfather’s sailing scrapbooks.

Having grown up in the Midwest where the boats come out of the water before the lakes freeze over, Mary fell in love with the idea of sailing all year round and moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1973. She has now lived in Washington State for over 35 years.

Mary started sailing again when she became active in the Budd Inlet Sailing Club in 1974 while attending The Evergreen State College. She has raced extensively on many boats in the South Sound, as well as in Seattle races. Mary is a Certified US Sailing Small Boat sailing instructor; teaching sailing is one of her passions! She has taught sailing using many types of boats from 8 ft. El Toros to 26 ft. Solings. She is teaching a sailing class for women this spring and is an active member of the South Sound Women’s Sailing Group.

Mary received her Masters Merchant Marine license in 2009. She has cruised extensively in NW waters, and owns and maintains her own Newport 30, S/V Clara McDougal.

Carol Hasse has been a sailmaker and owner of Hasse & Company Port Townsend Sails, Inc., since 1978. The sails made by Ms. Hasse’s loft are world-renowned. For two decades, the Seven Seas cruising Association’s membership surveys have acknowledged Port Townsend Sails for building the best offshore cruising sails available anywhere.

Hasse came to sailmaking from a love of cruising. She has logged over 45,000 offshore miles in northern and southern latitudes on wood, fiberglass, ferro-cement and steel boats ranging in size from 25 to 101 feet. She has sailed on both mono- and multi-hulls, and on vessels with traditional and moderns rigs.

Hasse has been involved personally and professionally in the building of fiberglass and wood boats, and has owned a 25-ft. wooden Nordic Folkboat, Lorraine, since 1979.

Hasse is a founding Board member of the Wooden Boat Foundation in Port Townsend, Washington. Its premier event is the annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Hasse currently serves on the Board of the Northwest Maritime Center, also located in Port Townsend. She is a regular judge at the Victoria, B.C., Classic Boat Festival, and has served in the past as a judge for Cruising World’s Boat of the Year competition at the Annapolis Boat Show.

Hasse regularly lectures for the Wooden Boat Foundation and the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building in Port Townsend. She is active in teaching and lecturing about sailmaking, sail repair, sail inventory and sail handling. Instructional venues include sail training vessels, boat shows, yacht club meetings, offshore cruising seminars, Safety at Sea seminars, and Port Townsend Sails’ in-loft Hands-On Sail Repair seminars. She has an ISPA instructor’s certificate and a USCG 100-ton Near Coastal Masters Auxiliary Sail license. Hasse has been active in women’s and youth sail training in the Northwest and the South Pacific for over 25 years.

Alison Mazon is a full-time marine surveyor specializing in yachts and small craft. She is an accredited marine surveyor (A.M.S.®) with one of the two internationally recognized marine surveyor organizations: the Society of Accredited Marine Surveyors (S.A.M.S.®). Prior to becoming a marine surveyor, Alison had her own business installing systems and repairing pleasure boats.

Alison is active in S.A.M.S.®, always expanding her knowledge of repair procedures, construction advances, and new systems and standards. She stays abreast of new regulations and standards of the USCG, ABYC, and NFPA to ensure her surveys are as thorough as possible. Alison is a member of ABYC and has attended many of their educational seminars. She is ABYC certified in Standards and in Corrosion. She continues to take advantage of other training such as MerCruiser’s failure analysis training, and Caterpillar’s seminars on oil sample analysis and shaft & bearing failure. Her handling of marine insurance claims on behalf of insurance companies has made her involvement with IAMI (International Association of Marine Investigators) and ABYC accident reconstruction training invaluable. Most recently Alison achieved her ASM Limited Class 2 Ultrasonic Thickness Testing certification.

Alison’s career has always been technically oriented. She has been a Master A.S.E. technician, Master Porsche technician, and Master Suzuki technician. She has been an active member in SAE (the Society of Automotive Engineers), ASTM (American Society of Testing & Materials) developing standards for two-stroke oils. Alison’s background includes a total of 17 years in the technical departments of two major motor vehicle manufacturers.

For the last 15+ years, Lynne has been surveying boats throughout the Pacific Northwest. She is a member of the Society of Accredited Marine Surveyors (SAMS®), as well as an active member of the International Association of Marine Investigators (IAMI®).

Lynne is a graduate of Chapman’s School of Marine Survey. She assisted with the development of the curriculum for the Havorn Marine Survey and Shipwright School and taught Marine Survey for many years, training a number of apprentice surveyors. Lynne holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Management, and did post-graduate work at Northeastern University in Experiential Education. Lynne furthered her marine experience in Cargo Claims at the State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College. She holds certificates through the American Boat and Yacht Counsel (ABYC) and recently completed the Captain’s Course with Zenith Maritime in Seattle. Lynne is often referred to as the “Wooden Boat Whisperer” for her expertise with wooden boats both sail and power. She also handles insurance claims for a number of insurance companies.

Lynne prides herself on conducting a thorough survey, and has traveled as far as Greece to survey vessels. As an educator, she brings a distinct difference to the survey process, helping boat buyers to learn and understand the boat they are purchasing. She offers a Pre-Survey Inspection Service, spending up to two hours looking at a boat for potential purchase. The buyer watches and learns, acquiring a new eye for detail.

Sailing has been Lynne’s passion for many years and she has taught sailing on everything from 8-foot Sabot dinghies to 138-foot tall ships. She loves to share her skills and knowledge, and is always open to answering your questions or pointing you in the right direction!

Lynne is a former National Safety Specialist with the American Red Cross including First Aid, CPR, Nursing, Youth Leadership, Corporate Safety and Boating Safety. She successfully ran her own company, Second Wind – The Safety Training Group, for many years in Arizona before moving to the Northwest. She feels that the Pacific Northwest is her niche, and has built a two-story houseboat on Lake Union, which she is just now completing.

Mary was inspired to get into sailing after reading Adrift, Steven Callahan’s harrowing story of 72 days in a life raft after his boat was holed by a marine mammal. This got her reading everything she could find in the State Library’s extensive collection of sailing books. She figured she could avoid Callahan’s fate by buying a metal boat, so her first sailboat was a 35-foot Colvin junk-rigged aluminum schooner, Sirena.  Being the only junk owner in a sea of sloops, cutters and ketches, Mary taught herself to sail her schooner, venturing farther and farther from the South Sound with each successive summer. She also learned all she could about boat systems.  Over the course of 2 years, she replumbed the boat, upgraded the electrical system, re-upholstered the salon and V-berth, and installed a teak floor. In 2007, she and another person took Sirena around Vancouver Island. In 2008, they ventured north to Glacier Bay, Alaska, and Mary single-handed the boat back to Olympia, visiting as many hot springs and humpback hangouts as she could en route.

Mary sold Sirena in 2008. Suffering boat withdrawal, she bought a Cascade 36, Sonrisa II.  She has just finished recanvassing and restoring the deck non-skid, and has sworn off boat projects for the summer! Mary is leaving in a matter of days to join two other women on a passage to Hawaii on a Vancouver 38, and plans a summer of sailing to Desolation Sound with her sister when she returns.

Mary Campbell is very excited that she recently got her Captain’s license.  She’d not sure what she plans to do with it yet, but it will sure look nice next to the documentation papers.

Lisa is a born-and-raised Pacific Northwest native, originally from Hood River, Oregon. She learned to scuba dive at the age of 13 at which point she began to spend a lot of time diving with her father throughout Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands. Shortly before she left for college in Colorado at age 18, her father bought a trawler. Every summer she would come home from school and spend a couple of weeks on the boat with him. This, she says, was her first real introduction to boating and she fell in love!

Colorado was beautiful, but Lisa missed the water. At age 25, she moved back to the Northwest, first to Hood River; then, craving the ocean, to Bellingham, where she ran a small business for an inventor on Lummi Island for a couple years. In the spring of 2009, Lisa was offered an opportunity to open and run an inflatable boat and outboard motor shop in Anacortes, Washington, with her partner, Adam. Lisa says, “As it was just the two of us, we both needed to have many different skills and be willing to wear different hats in the business. I learned to run the office as well as care for, maintain and repair a wide variety of inflatable boats. We are now going into our third season and have a following of happy customers.” Lisa looks forward to sharing the lessons she has learned with seminar participants.

Ace Spragg grew up sailing on the Chesapeake Bay and spent 20 years as a summer camp Waterfront Director, teaching waterskiing, swimming and sailing. She moved to the Puget Sound in 2000, and moved aboard her 39 ft. sailboat, Fraid Knot, in 2003. In 2006, she was the Skipper of a successful offshore voyage to Hawaii and back with an all-women crew. Ace has her USCG 50-ton Master’s license, and is an ISPA Yachtmaster Instructor, US Sailing Instructor and a US Maritime Academy Instructor. Mostly, though, she just enjoys teaching and sailing and being on the water!

Vicky’s knot tying began as a youth on her family’s small farm in Berthoud, Colorado. Knots were an underlying theme in several jobs through college, her time on the Larimer County Search and Rescue team, as a Ropes Course facilitator and trainer, and in her current position as a 4-H Outdoor Adventure Education Program Coordinator for WSU Extension. Vicky has literally relied on knots for her personal safety and knows the importance of a well-tied knot. Whether you’re securing a horse, boat, person, or shoe, there’s a right knot for you!