MARION BERMUDA SAFETY AT SEA SYMPOSIUM MARCH 21-22, 2015

UMASS BOSTON 100 Morrissey Blvd. • Boston, MA 02125 • Campus Center March 21 & 22, 2015

Organized by: BLUE WATER SAILING CLUB

Sponsored by: MARION TO BERMUdA CRUISING YAChT RACE

In Conjunction with: LANdFALL NAVIGATION - SAFETY AT SEA SPONSOR

US SAILING SANCTIONEd SAFETY AT SEA SEMINAR Fall 2014 – mid 2015 Campus Map www.umb.edu/gettinghere

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This event is the result of the collaboration of efforts by a number of organizations interested in promoting safety at sea. It is sponsored by the Marion Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race Association and organized by the Blue Water Sailing Club, one of the three sponsors of the Marion Bermuda Race along with the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club and the Beverly Yacht Club. The Marblehead to Halifax Ocean Race also has participated in the planning of the event and has encouraged their members to attend.

The symposium is sanctioned by US Sailing. The agenda includes safety topics described in the 2014-2015 “International Sailing Federation Special Regulations” (ISAF) Handbook, section 6 – Training.

SAFETY AT SEA SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE

Edward J. Stott, Chairman

MEMBERS BOOTH SPONSORS Peter Dragonas Bermuda Dept. of Tourism Aedan Gleeson Blue Water Sailing Club Allan McLean Cay Electronics Alan Minard Core Medical David Patton Edson International Brian Schanning Kingman’s Yacht Center Liz Stott Landfall Navigation Life Raft Survival Equipment Locus Weather North East Rigging Systems Ocens Quantum Sail Design Group Sail Fast LLC Team 1 AGENdA – SATURdAY, MARCh 21ST

REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 0700 - 0730

WELCOME & INTRODUCTION ...... Ed Stott 0730 - 0745

CREW OvERBOARD RECOvERY ...... John Rousmaniere 0745 - 0830

MEDICAL / SEASICKNESS ...... Michael Jacobs MD 0830 - 0915

COMMUNICATIONS - SATPHONES, vHF/DSC, AIS ...... Chris McNally 0915 - 1000

BREAK 1000 - 1015 Play USCG Helo Rescue DvD

DAMAGE PREvENTION - RIGGING & STEERING ...... Kevin Montague/Will Keene 1015 - 1100

LESSONS LEARNED FROM RECENT ACCIDENTS ...... John Rousmaniere 1100 - 1130

PYROTECHNICS, SIGNALING, LIFE RAFT INFLATION ...... Capt. Henry Marx 1130 - 1200

LUNCH 1200 - 1245 Show Lifesling and Helo videos ...... Charles Daneko

SAIL FROM HELL ...... Bill Biewenga & Panel 1245 - 1330

CARE AND MAINTENANCE OF THE CREW ...... Gail Greenwald 1330 - 1400

HEAvY WEATHER ...... John Rousmaniere 1400- 1445 BREAK 1445 - 1500 Show Heavy Weather video

QUESTIONS (vIA NOTE CARDS) ...... John Rousmaniere AND SUMMATION and All Speakers 1500 - 1545

WRAP UP AND CLOSE - PRIZE DRAWING ...... Ed Stott 1545 - 1600

MAKE SURE TO COMPLETE SURVEY FORM – and be eligible for over $1000 of door prizes. (You must be present at the drawing to win.)

Marblehead Halifax Racers go to Breakout Session – Ballroom Section “B”

MARION BERMUDA BREAKOUT SESSION ...... Ed Stott 1600

ARRIvING IN BERMUDA AND FINISHING ...... Neil Redburn THE RACE WITHOUT PENALTY 1600 - 1700

BERMUDA COURSE WEATHER ...... Frank Bohlen 1700 - 1800

MARBLEHEAD HALIFAx BREAKOUT SESSION ...... Peter Fein 1600

MHOR WEATHER ...... Ken McKinley 1600 - 1700

1700 - 1800 BOAT PREPARATION INSPECTION ...... Dave Campbell AGENdA – SUNdAY, MARCh 22Nd

REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 0700 - 0730

MEDICAL SEMINAR ...... Michael Jacobs MD 0730 - 0930 1230 - 1430 Campus Center 3rd Floor Room 3545

WEATHER – GULF STREAM SEMINAR ...... Frank Bohlen 0945 - 1230 Ken McKinley 1445 - 1730 Campus Center 3rd Floor Room 3545

IN WATER TRAINING ...... Dan O’Connor 0830 - 1200 1330 - 1700 Clark Athletic Center

Pool attendees should come prepared with a towel, change of clothes, and drinking water. In addition they should be prepared to enter the pool with their full foul weather gear including their boots, as well as their life jacket and tether. For those who cannot bring their life jacket a few will be available to borrow. Trash bags will be provided to stow wet gear in after the conclusion of the pool work. Please let Dan O’Connor know if you have any further questions at [email protected].

PRESENTERS

~ SATURdAY 21ST ~

John Rousmaniere, Moderator

Bill Biewenga Frank Bohlen Dave Campbell Peter Fein Gail Greenwald Michael Jacobs MD Will Keene Capt. Henry Marx Ken McKinley Chris McNally Kevin Montague Neil Redburn

~ SUNdAY 22Nd ~

MEDICAL SEMINAR Michael Jacobs MD

WEATHER & GULF STREAM Frank Bohlen Ken McKinley

IN WATER TRAINING Dan O’Connor EDWARD J. STOTT - Chairman 0730 Introduction

Ed has logged over 60,000 ocean miles via numerous Caribbean deliveries on private yachts as well as his own Swan 44, cruising in the Caribbean and South Pacifc, and racing offshore to Bermuda and Transatlantic. He has served in leadership positions as Skipper, Watch Captain and Navigator. Ed is knowledgeable in passage-making, preparation for an offshore voyage, mechanical repairs at sea as well as meteorology. He has authored articles about sailing preparation, safety and boat maintenance which have appeared in Cruising World and Blue Water Sailing magazines.

Ed is a member of the Blue Water Sailing Club, one of the sponsoring clubs to the Marion Bermuda Race, where he has served on the Board of Governors as the Offshore Chair and a member-at-large. Since 2010, Ed has served on the Safety at Sea committee and Marketing committee for the Marion Bermuda Race. Ed currently serves on the Marion Bermuda Race Executive Committee as the Safety at Sea Chairman.

He has spent his career in sales and marketing within the Insurance, Software Technology and Marine industries. Ed is currently the owner of Stott Marketing, a business to business marketing strategy and consulting company. Ed is also an accredited business counselor for SCORE.

JOHN ROUSMANIERE - Moderator 0745 Crew Overboard 1100 Lessons Learned 1400 Heavy Weather

John is an acknowledged expert on safety at sea and has more than 40,000 miles of blue water behind him, including nine Newport Bermuda Races (with two second place fnishes) and three Atlantic crossings. He wrote The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, Fastnet, Force 10, the well-known account of the fatal 1979 Fastnet race storm (in which John sailed), and the history of the A Berth to Bermuda-Newport Bermuda Race. He has moderated or spoken at more than 100 safety and seamanship seminars. He co-organized and wrote the fnal report of the most recent crew overboard rescue trials.

MICHAEL JACOBS MD 0830 Health Issues & Seasickness

Director, Annual MedSail Educational Conferences “Medicine for Mariners and Safety at Sea” 2003-present; U.S. Coast Guard licensed Captain 100 Ton; co-author of A Comprehensive Guide To Marine Medicine, author of chapter “Survival At Sea” in the textbook of Wilderness Medicine (past three editions). Speaker at “Safety At Sea” conferences and “Wilderness Medical Society” (WMS) conferences. He is a practicing physician on Martha’s vineyard. He is a life long sailor with extensive ocean and coastal sailing experience. He is a winner of Multihull division Newport to Bermuda race aboard trimaran “Moxie.” He is also a medical consultant to Adventure Medical Kits. CHRIS MCNALLY 0915 Communications

Christopher J. McNally Esg, lives in Newport RI, and is a member of the Cruising Club of America. He holds a USCG 500 Ton Ocean Masters license and a 200 Ton RYA Yacht Master upon Oceans certifcate. Christopher is a practicing Maritime and Ocean and Coastal Law attorney at Sayer Regan & Thayer, LLP in Newport, RI.

Christopher has tens of thousands of ocean miles sailing on a multitude of vessels, many thousand of which came from his time as mate, captain and educator of the sailing school vessel GERONIMO, the sail training platform for St. George’s School. He also launched and developed a maritime training program in Southern California for Orange Coast College with the goal of bringing talented young men and women into the professional maritime industries.

Christopher is the Chair of Communications and Emergency Management for the Newport to Bermuda Race and remains active in the New England maritime community.

WILL KEENE 1015 Damage Prevention – Steering

Will Keene, President of Edson International, was awarded SAIL Magazine’s 2005 Industry Award for Leadership on January 20, 2005 during the Strictly Sail Philadelphia Boat Show. The award was presented by SAIL’s publisher Eric Cressy during an industry reception celebrating the magazine’s 35th Anniversary. “Forthright, conservative and outspoken, Will stands up for what he believes is right for the sailing business and motivates people behind these causes,” stated Eric Cressy during the presentation. “Will has been a major proponent of making sure Congress pays attention to sailing related issues such as dredging and other environmental issues. His leadership goes far, far beyond his own company.”

Will Keene, President of Edson International since 1989, has been active in the marine industry for over 30 years. Along with brother Hank, the Keenes are second-generation owners of one of Massachusetts’s oldest continually operating businesses, with beginnings in 1859 in Boston, manufacturing hardware for the active New England fshing feets.

Will has been with Edson International since 1979. After graduating from Tabor Academy in Marion, MA and Hartwick College in New York, Will began his career in the marine industry as a manager in the quality control, customer service and inventory control departments of Cape Dory Yachts in Taunton, MA.

An avid boater, sailor and fsherman, Will enjoys spending time on his home waters of Buzzards Bay, MA with his wife Franny. They make their home in South Dartmouth, MA and spend their summers exploring the waters of New England and beyond.

Edson International, celebrating its 154th year, manufactures an extensive line of marine steering systems and accessories, boat davits, radar towers and marine pumps for sail and powerboats. KEvIN MONTAGUE 1015 Damage Prevention – Rigging

Kevin Montague, Owner and founder of North East Rigging Systems, LLC since 2002, has been rigging in the North East marine Market full time since graduating from Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1982. A lifelong sailor with many offshore races and campaigns under his belt, he has developed a keen eye for what works well offshore to make passages safe and fast. Whether replacing your standing rigging or rod or a total reft of your rig and deck layout, Kevin has been involved in thousands of offshore adventures. He has worked with many owners and yacht designers to make the most of existing applications, as well as being involved on new “clean slate” projects.

Whether it’s maximizing your current boat, or prepping the new one, his experience and knowledge is vital to any offshore application. Whether Carbon or aluminum, few can give your rig a better inspection and game plan for long distance sailing. On boats from 25 to 65 feet, and larger projects as required, insight to rigs and systems allow for doing things correctly and on budget. Working hand and hand with the manufacturers directly and having constant dialogue with them, allows for exact applications to be satisfed with the least amount of stress and anxiety to the owners.

CAPT. HENRY MARx 1130 Pyrotechnics, Signaling & Life Raft Infation

CAPT. HENRY MARx is owner and President of Landfall Navigation, which he purchased in1982 after many years in the corporate world in management and fnancial positions. Landfall Navigation offers a worldwide Nautical Chart, Publications, and Navigation Instrument Inventory; a large Maritime Technical Library; a full line of Marine Safety Equipment; a Referral Service for Delivery Captains; and Navigation and Marine Safety Seminars as well as OnBoard Instruction. As part of his Marine Education Effort, Capt. Marx produced an Instructional videotape entitled “LORAN C A Navigators Approach”: He holds Copyrights, on two Navigation and One Marine Safety Courses which he regularly teaches. Capt. Marx was a participant/cadre in the August 2005 Crew Overboard Symposium in San Francisco Bay hosted by John Rousmaniere and Chuck Hawley.

An experienced bluewater sailor Capt. Marx has sailed and raced for over 40 years on the East and West Coast of the United States, Southern Coast of Norway and the Caribbean. He has served in a Norwegian Flag Oil tanker as a Seaman and his Military Service was in the U. S. Naval Reserve in Diesel Submarines. He continues to deliver private yachts with his longest Yacht Delivery bringing a 50 Ft. Trawler Yacht from San Francisco, CA to Stamford, CT via the Panama Canal in 1981. In 1992-94 Capt Marx served on the Committee on Nautical Charting of the Marine Board division of the National Academy of Science reviewing NOAA Chart Making, in 2006 he was elected to membership in the Storm Trysail Club, in 2010 was elected to the Cruising Club of America. BILL BIEWENGA 1245 Sail from Hell – Panel Discussion

Bill Biewenga is an offshore sailor who has accumulated over 400,000 sea miles in virtually every ocean of the world. His experience includes 39 transatlantic crossings, several TransPacs, numerous record attempts, deliveries and races, as well as participation in four round the world races and multiple listings in the Guinness Book of Records. He has experience as skipper, navigator, weather analyst/router, watch captain, helmsman, deck hand, and project manager. He uses his extensive marine background as a photojournalist and weather routing consultant while continuing his participation aboard a variety of vessels in the world’s major offshore events. Bill also has offered educational weather seminars in cooperation with North U., and has presented a series of online seminars through his website at www.weather4sailors.com and provides other learning tools through his site at www.WxAdvantage.com. Currently, Bill is the Chief Operating Offcer for Qv21 Technologies, LLC, which provides logistics support software, primarily to the Oil & Gas Industry. Information is available about that activity at www.Qv21.com.

GAIL GREENWALD 1330 Care & Maintenance of the Crew

Gail Greenwald and her husband Roy have logged over 30,000 offshore miles in their valiant 42, Cordelia, including completing the Atlantic circle (Massachusetts-Azores-Canaries-Caribbean), several other Atlantic passages, and – so far – crossing half the Pacifc. Cordelia is presently in French Polynesia, and Gail and Roy will resume the Pacifc crossing in April. They have sailed the Marion-Bermuda race in the celestial division three times. Gail won the Navigator’s Trophy in 2003.

NEIL REDBURN 1600 Bermuda – Breakout Session – Arriving in Bermuda and Finishing without Penalty

Neil Redburn is the vice Commodore of The Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club. Neil is the owner/skipper of a J24 and has raced a number of one design classes in Bermuda, including the Bermuda Fitted Dinghy. He began offshore sailing 20 years ago and has competed in fve Marion-Bermuda Races and fve Newport- Bermuda Races with numerous deliveries in between and is very familiar, therefore, with the approaches to Bermuda. In 2013 he was fortunate to complete the race on The Spirit of Bermuda.

FRANK BOHLEN PH.D. 1700 Bermuda – Breakout Session – Weather / Gulfstream

Frank Bohlen is a Professor of Oceanography Emeritus in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut. For the past forty years he has been studying ocean and nearshore currents and transport using a variety of feld and laboratory techniques. He is currently part of the team maintaining the Long Island Sound observatory (MYSOUND.uconn.edu). In addition to his scientifc work he is an experienced ocean sailor and navigator and has sailed transatlantic four times and participated in 16 Newport Bermuda races and 10 Marblehead-Halifax Races. He received the Mixter Trophy as navigator of the winning yacht in the 1986 Newport Bermuda Race (Puritan - IMS). Since 1998 he has been presenting Gulf Stream Tutorials for the Newport Bermuda Race. Past editions of these can be obtained at bermudarace.com. PETER FEIN 1600 Marblehead Halifax Ocean Race - Breakout Session - Host

Peter Fein is an avid sailor and software architect and has been sailing his entire life, starting on Long Island Sound on a family member’s Luders 33. A pleasure sailor early on he got the racing bug in college, joining the Rutgers Sailing Club. After graduation he started racing on offshore boats where he especially enjoys the technical aspects including boat preparation, marine systems, electronics and navigation

Peter has sailed 1000’s of miles both pleasure sailing and racing in local waters and offshore. His race record includes three Marblehead to Halifax races, two Annapolis to Newport and four Newport to Bermuda races. In the 2010 Newport Bermuda Race he navigated the Swan 441 “Cygnette” to a class win, 5th overall and best performance for a Swan.

Currently living in Marblehead, Massachusetts, he is a member of Boston Yacht Club where he now serves at vice Commodore, after four years as a Trustee. He enjoys sailing on his home waters of Massachusetts Bay and cruising the New England coast with family and friends on his Sabre 36 “Calypso”.

KEN MCKINLEY 1600 Marblehead Halifax Ocean Race – Breakout Session – Weather

Ken McKinley earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Atmospheric Science from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY in 1980, and did graduate work in meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He has owned and operated Locus Weather, based in Camden, Maine, for 20 years. A signifcant portion of his meteorological consulting work involves providing custom weather forecast services to ocean voyaging yachts worldwide, both racers and cruisers. He has supported clients in the Marion Bermuda Race, the Newport Bermuda Race, the Marblehead Halifax Race, the Bermuda 1-2, the Chicago-Mackinac Race, the Caribbean 1500, and the Fastnet Race as well as other local and regional races. He is also involved in meteorological training and education, serving as a USCG certifed instructor at professional maritime schools in Florida and Maryland. He has taught undergraduate meteorology courses at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, ME. He has also presented several two day weather courses to recreational mariners. He has published several articles in Ocean Navigator and Ocean voyager magazines.

DAvE CAMPBELL 1700 Marblehead Halifax Ocean Race – Breakout Session – Prep & Inspection

Dave has over 35,000 miles of sailing experience. He competed in the frst Marion to Bermuda race in 1977, as the celestial navigator on an Alden 37 fnishing 3rd in division. In 1985 and 1987 he competed in the Newport to Bermuda race, on his 39 foot Jeanneau Regatta, “Campbell’s Sloop”. In 1987 he was awarded the “Thomas Fleming Day Memorial Trophy” for best performance for a yacht under 40 feet.

His frst Halifax race was in 1983 and since, has competed in an additional six races on “Campbell’s Sloop” fnishing in trophy position with a third in two races, second in one race and winning his division in 2005. In 1993, 2001 and 2005, he was chosen as one of three boat US team to represent the US in the US-Canada team competition. Since 2005 he has raced in an additional three Halifax races, 2007, 2011, and 2013 as nav- igator, on both “Marisol” and “Kinsale”. Sailing on “Kinsale” this year will make this his eleventh Halifax race.

Dave has made numerous boat deliveries from Canada and from Bermuda. In addition, he has made numerous deliveries from New England to Florida and Florida to New England on both sail and power yachts, both offshore and along the ICW.

In 2009 and 2010 Dave and his wife Judi took fourteen months and sailed their 40 foot trawler “JEJUDA” approximately 8000 miles up the Hudson River, and through the various Canadian canal and lock systems. They spent the summer in Georgian Bay and the North Channel of Lake Huron passing through the Straights of Mackinaw in September on their way to Chicago. The fall was spent exploring the Mississippi, Ohio, Cumberland and Tennessee rivers eventually sailing across the Gulf of Mexico to the west coast of Florida. The winter of 2009 was spent in the Florida Keys returning to Massachusetts in in the summer of 2010. As a point of interest they passed through 168 locks and went across Balsam Lake in the Canadian Shield, purported at 841 feet above sea level, the highest point in the world you can sail a boat from sea level.

DAN O’CONNOR 0800 Sunday Hands On In-Water Training 1330 Sunday Hands On In-Water Training

Dan O’Connor has been involved with US Sailing’s Safety at Sea Seminars since 2002 due to his expertise in marine safety equipment. Since that time Dan has been a key person in the development of the “hands on training” component for the Safety at Sea Seminars and provided the frst ISAF personal survival course in the US. In the intervening period Dan has crammed over 1000 sailors into life rafts during the hands on portions of the Safety at Sea Seminars.

In addition to providing practical training for offshore sailors, Dan has developed and taught other marine safety training programs for a wide variety of mariners. As a USCG approved marine safety instructor Dan has worked to develop national standards for commercial fshing vessel safety training, and has also designed and delivered other training programs for a wide variety of mariners.

Dan has been a board member of the United States Marine Safety Association since 2006 and a director since 2011. He also serves as an advisor to US Sailing’s Safety at Sea Committee. Dan lives in Little Compton RI with his wife, and two boys. He was very excited to sell off his boat last year, and swears that he will never get another one, but is known to continually be looking at used boat listings.

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