Calgary Club Night - Preparing for offshore adventures
by Bluewater Cruising Association on 25 Feb 2017
Beth Norm Cooper Bluewater Cruising Association
The Calgary Chapter is pleased to welcome Norm and Beth Cooper, BCA members from the Vancouver Chapter, to our March 7, 2017 club night.Enjoy an evening with Norm and Beth as they share their thoughts about offshore boat preparation, ranging from rigging and ground tackle to electronics and satellite communication. Along the way, they’ll share stories of adventure and misadventure with hundreds of dazzling photos of the South Pacific. Tips and pearls of wisdom will be shared with all.
Norm & Beth Cooper are experienced offshore voyagers. They spent 3 years sailing to New Zealand and back. Prior to that, they spent two years preparing their boat, Sarah Jean II, a Saga 43, for the adventure. This talk is based on their boat preparation experience, their practical experience offshore and their observation of hundreds of cruising boats of various designs.
Norm is a certified ISPA sailing instructor. He teaches weather and boat preparations courses for BCA and authors Lessons Learned the Hard Way for Currents. Norm and his wife, Beth, own Ocean Forest Voyaging, a local sailing school providing coastal and offshore sailing instruction, educational books and passage planning software. Keen to continue exploring, they have put the company on hold until 2018 while they they head off cruising again in spring 2017, this time to Alaska.
HMCS Tecumseh 1898 - 24th St. S.W. , Calgary, AB
07 Mar 2017 1900h - 2130h
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