2019 Sunset Seminar Series Talks Are Held Late June Through August, 7:00–8:30 Pm, Free of Charge, and Open to the Public

Camden Yacht Club 2019 Sunset Seminar Series Talks are held late June through August, 7:00–8:30 pm, free of charge, and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). June 21 Circumnavigating July 31 Impacts of Warming FRIDAY the Americas on Novara WEDNESDAY of the Gulf of Maine Award-winning adventure sailor Steve Brown Richard Wahle is the director of the University departed Camden in the summer of 2014, of Maine’s Lobster Institute and a research sailed around North America via the Northwest professor in the School of Marine Sciences. His Passage and Antarctica, and climbed a few research integrates the ecology, oceanography, mountains along the way. and fishery science toward a better mechanistic understanding of marine populations and July 10 Insights and Inspiration: communities. WEDNESDAY Four Decades Painting Maine August 7 Follow the Water One of our country’s most acclaimed con tem- WEDNESDAY porary artists, Barbara Ernst Prey, will give a talk on insights and inspiration highlighting her Join geologist and CYC member Mark Van four decades of painting Maine. Baalen in a discussion of some of the remarkable properties of water, where it came from and July 23 A Passage to Antigua and where it is going. Water moves from one place to another in various ways, and to understand all TUESDAY Cruising the Windward Islands this we must follow the water. Bob Osborn will talk about the Salty Dawg Fall Rally (the largest organized flotilla of cruisers August 14 From Shark Bites to leaving the East Coast for the Caribbean) to the WEDNESDAY Repairing Human Hearts Caribbean and Antigua as a starting point for cruising the islands from there to the Dr. Kevin Strange, CEO and Co-Founder of Grenadines to the south. Bar Harbor-based Novo Biosciences will explain how a tale of shark bites at a Scottish Pub led July 24 Designing a Spirit of Tradition him and his colleagues to identify the first and WEDNESDAY Sailing Yacht only drug candidate to stimulate a damaged heart to repair itself. Bob Stephens, co-owner of Stephens Waring Yacht Design in Belfast, Maine, a custom naval August 21 Crossing the Atlantic architecture and engineering firm, will discuss WEDNESDAY in Snow Star the process his design firm follows in designing classic, fast and beautiful yachts for its clients. CYC members Tom Kiley and Ry Hills will give a slide presentation of their memorable voyage on their 37 foot wooden sailboat, Snow Star. The trip included two transatlantic crossings, cruising in the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands, then west to Antigua, and finally north through the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas. 68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Circumnavigating the Americas on Novara Friday, June 21, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club Award-winning adventure sailor Steve Brown departed Camden in the summer of 2014, sailed around North America via the Northwest Passage and Antarctica, climbed a few mountains along the way, and returned 5 years later to Camden in early June. He will speak at the Camden Yacht Club on June 21 at a special Friday version of the club’s popular “Sunset Seminars.” Steve’s sailboat, Novara, is uniquely equipped for such a rugged passage: she is a 60-foot aluminum- hulled yacht built in Holland and extensively refitted at the former Wayfarer Marine yard (now Lyman- Morse at Wayfarer). The yacht features an unusual aero rig, in a two-masted schooner configuration. Steve and his wife Trish are UK citizens living part of the year near the French Alps with many friends in Camden developed mostly during months living in Camden while Novara underwent extensive improvements. Steve will speak about his remarkable sailing adventures and climbing experiences, including mountains in several countries and Antarctica . all illustrated with high quality photography and videography. Steve will explain how his adventure was motivated by the exploits of famous British deep-sea sailor and mountaineer, William (Bill) Tillman, a World War II hero who ultimately perished at sea in 1977. Happily, Steve has survived to tell his extraordinary stories. This one-of-a-kind talk begins at 7 PM and will run approximately 1 hour plus. We hope to have Novara alongside the CYC dock for inspection before the talk from 5 to 6 PM. This presentation is the 1st in a series of eight hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org. 68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Barbara Ernst Prey Insights and Inspiration Four Decades Painting Maine Wednesday, July 10, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club One of our country’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, Barbara Ernst Prey will give a talk on her insights and inspiration highlighting her four decades of painting Maine. New York based but long time summer resident, Barbara has a deep connection to the islands of Maine, her family were the first settlers of Vinalhaven and North Haven as well as the midcoast and other Maine islands and it is these islands and the structures that she is drawn to. Her paintings are in numerous prominent collections worldwide including The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Brooklyn Museum, The White House (where she is one of two living American female artists included in the collection), The Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Kennedy Space Center and collections of Tom Hanks, and in over one hundred American embassies and consulates worldwide. In 2015, MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) commissioned Prey to create the world’s largest known watercolor painting ( 8 by 15 feet) for its new Building 6, which opened last summer. In 2003 She was invited by The President and First Lady to paint the official White House Christmas card. As a global Ambassador for American art, her artwork is displayed in more than 100 Embassies and Consulates worldwide through the U.S. Art in Embassies program. As a NASA artist she joins an elite group of American artists who have been invited by NASA to document space history executing commissioned work for NASA on four occasions. Her painting of the x-43 was included in the Smithsonian’s 12 museum traveling exhibit NASA/ART: 50 Years of Exploration. Her other NASA commissions are: The Columbia Tribute, the International Space Station, and the Shuttle Discovery: Return to Flight on exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center. She was recently featured on the CBS Evening News for her NASA artwork. For ten years, Prey has served as the sole visual artist on the U.S. President-appointed National Council on the Arts, the advisory board to the National Endowment for the Arts. Members are elected for their established record of distinguished service or achievement in the arts. Barbara is the recipient of many honors and awards including the New York State Senate Women of Distinction Award. The New York Times writes, “Prey is going where icons Rauschenberg and Warhol have gone before.” A graduate of Williams College with a master’s degree from Harvard, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and a grant from The Henry Luce Foundation. She is adjunct faculty at Williams College. This presentation is the 2nd in a series of eight hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org. 68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series A Passage to Antigua and Cruising the Windward Islands Tuesday, July 23, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club Have you been dreaming about cruising the Caribbean? Bob Osborn, Board Member of the Salty Dawg Sailing Association, will talk about the Salty Dawg Fall Rally to the Caribbean and Antigua as a starting point for cruising the islands from there to the Grenadines to the south. The Salty Dawg Fall Rally is the largest organized flotilla of cruisers leaving the East Coast for the Caribbean. Some say that the “Real Caribbean begins in Antigua” and the farther south you get, the more magnificent the scenery becomes with the peaks of magnificent islands shrouded in clouds. This cruising area offers line of sight passages between islands, consistent trade wind sailing and easy reaching both north and south, to just about anywhere in the Caribbean. Bob will share photographs of magnificent tropical scenery, anchorages and yachts in this area. Bob’s presentation will cover the islands of the eastern Caribbean, which form a graceful arc from Puerto Rico south to Trinidad, ending just north of Venezuela. The Windward islands comprise the southern half of the chain from Martinique to Grenada for a total distance of approximately 450 miles. The Salty Dawg Sailing Association is a nonprofit educational and charitable organization that hosts rallies, rendezvous and blue water sailing seminars. The Fall Rally departs from Hampton VA in early November with between 85–95 boats making the trip each year following nearly a week of seminars.

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