Safety at Sea Seminar

The Mariners’ Museum, Landfall Navigation & Storm Trysail Foundation are pleased to present

Safety at Sea Seminar

Adult Program
Saturday, February 23, 2013
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:30 a.m.)

This day-long seminar, designed and conducted by sailors and experts in their fields, provides novice and experienced mariners with information and skills required to prepare for sailing the Chesapeake Bay Cruising & Racing, recommended equipment and more.   

The Seminar is focused on inshore boaters & bay sailors but is open to all cruising and racing skippers, crews & their families, recreational boaters, as well as commercial fishermen.

Topics to include: Damage Control, Coast Guard Rescue Procedures, Crew Over-Board & Rescue, First-Aid, Chesapeake Bay Weather Life Raft Demonstrations.

Junior Program
Sunday, February 24, 2013
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (doors open at 11:30 a.m.)

The Junior Safety at Sea Seminar is for junior sailors ages 12 and up interested in transiting into Big Boats.

Topics include: Big Boat coastal Navigation, Storm Preparation, Man-Over-Board, Dinghy Safety, Knowing your Equipment, View from the other end of the Tow Line, and Life Raft Demonstrations.

Seminar Topics include: 

SEMINAR FEES

Adult program: $75 • Junior program: $35
The fee covers lectures, demonstrations, course materials, & boxed lunch.
-- Mariners’ Museum Members receive $10 OFF registration --

 Please enter through the Bronze Door/Business Entrance.

For more information, contact Bryan Hill at (757) 591-7749 or bhill@MarinersMuseum.org.

Marine Dealers interested in having a presence at this event, please contact Page Stooks at (757) 591-7702 or pstooks@MarinersMuseum.org.

Both programs are sponsored by Landfall Navigation - incorporates the latest techniques and information available.

The Junior Program is co-sponsored by Storm Trysail Foundation

Safety at Sea Expert Panel

Bob Behringer

Bob Behringer is an experienced offshore sailor and Storm Trysail Member who is an active competitor in major northeast sailboat racing. He has sailed in many Bermuda Races as Watch Captain and Navigator and is an experienced presenter in the Storm Trysail Junior Safety @ Sea Program. 

Capt. J. Kipling Louttit, USCG Ret.  

Captain J. Kipling Louttit served in the Coast Guard for 34 years in a variety of afloat and shore assignments on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, Alaska and Hawaii.  He served for 10 years aboard 6 cutters ranging in size from 82 to 378 feet with crews of 10 to 160.  The larger cutters carried a helicopter.  He rescued mariners in distress, arrested people for drug smuggling, interdicted migrants trying to enter the country illegally, enforced fisheries conservation laws, and cleaned up oil spills.  Captain Louttit also spent 6 years conducting training in search and rescue, navigation, seamanship, shiphandling, firefighting, and damage control to both Coast Guard and Navy personnel.  

Simultaneous with his Coast Guard career, Captain Louttit is also an avid sailor, racer, cruiser, and boating enthusiast.  He first started sailing in 1967 on Chesapeake Bay and Long Island Sound, and has done numerous offshore passages and races in sailboats including Annapolis to Newport, Annapolis to Bermuda, Newport to Bermuda, and San Diego to Ensenada.  Captain Louttit won the Navigator’s Trophy for best navigator in fleet in the 2006 Annapolis to Bermuda race and the boat won first in class.  

Capt. Henry E. Marx

Captain Henry E. Marx is owner and President of Landfall Navigation, which he purchased in 1982 after many years in the corporate world in management and financial 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. 

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 Sammler

Bill is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist and external liaison at National Weather Service (NWS) Office in Wakefield, VA, which serves central and eastern Virginia, northeast North Carolina, and the Lower Maryland Eastern Shore. He coordinates with state and local emergency managers, and other NWS customers, to ensure NWS products and services meet their needs. Bill is the media focal point at NWS Wakefield. Bill also participates in a number of training initiatives including Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training and the FEMA/NWS Warning Coordination Course.

Before coming to Wakefield in April 1994, Bill spent the first 10 years of his nearly 30 year NWS career at the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, MO (now the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK), issuing nationwide forecasts for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes,. He has received several awards including the 2005 National Hurricane Conference Outstanding Achievement Award in Meteorology.

A native of southern New Jersey, Bill and his family live near Petersburg, Virginia. He has a B.S. in meteorology from Rutgers University (1981), and a M.S. in meteorology from St. Louis University (1988).

Captain Pete Seidler, USCG Ret.

Pete Seidler served 34 years in the US Coast Guard in a variety of assignments including command of two Coast Guard cutters where he was engaged in numerous search & rescue, maritime law enforcement and national defense operations. In addition he taught shiphandling, seamanship and leadership at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Ct. In 2007 he retired from the position of Staff Judge Advocate for the Coast Guard’s Atlantic Area commands.

Pete currently works as an Emergency Medical Technician (enhanced) in the City of Virginia Beach. He has served as Training Officer for the Virginia Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad, the city’s largest rescue squad. He is an American Red Cross instructor for First Aid, CPR and Wilderness First Aid as well as an instructor for EMS safety.

Campbell Woods

Campbell Woods is a 27-year-old sailor with 19 years of dinghy racing experience in numerous different boats including Opti, Sunfish, Laser, 420, FJ, Finn, Lightning, FD, 29er, and many others. Woods graduated from Oregon State University with a Degree in Exercise & Sport Science; has 8 years of coaching experience from a seasonal position in a Ski Shop to Yacht Club Junior Sailing Programs Instructor. He was the Head Coach for the Willow Bank Yacht Club and later the Sailing Director at the
U. S. Sailing Center in Martin County, FL.

Kelly Robinson

Kelly Robinson is the director of Storm Trysail Foundation's Junior Safety-at-Sea Program in New Jersey. He has sailed in 5 Newport-to-Bermuda races, winning twice overall as navigator aboard the Cal 40 Sinn Fein. He has also won numerous titles in such blue water races as Marblehead to Halifax, Vineyard Race, and Around Long Island. Originally from California, he has also won division or overall titles in races such as TransPac, Long Beach to Cabo San Lucas, the Swiftsure Classic, and San Diego to Manzanillo Race. He has sailed extensively in one designs, including winning the J/30 North American Championships twice as crew. He currently serves as the President of PHRF Mid-Atlantic.