TN: Trawler News #118: Site of the day, new Trawler Fest season, cruising Cuba, and other items of interest

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Site of the Day:
   http://www.pacificmotoryachts.com/index.htm
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Broadcast on the Internet 01/17/05


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IN THIS ISSUE #118
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Stuart kicks off 2005 West Marine Trawler Fest series
Cuba cruising site gets permit to cruise Cuba
Passagemaking Under Power added to trawler forums
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STUART KICKS OFF 2005 WEST MARINE TRAWLER FEST SERIES
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Tropical storm preparation and survival are among 
the timely topics on the seminar program at the 
first West Marine Trawler Fest of 2005. The 
popular event takes place January 27-29 in 
Stuart, Florida, at the home marina of 
Kadey-Krogen Yachts.

The tropical storm presentation will tell you 
what to do with your boat and yourself when you 
find yourself in harm's way. Sharing their 
experience in storm forecasting, preparation, and 
tactics for survival will be three speakers, 
Bruce Denton, who has survived two hurricanes 
over Stuart, Bob Austin, who survived Ivan over 
the Panhandle, and insurance specialist Al Golden.

For those not familiar with Trawler Fest, it is 
part boat show, featuring cruising vessels of all 
types: single engine, twin engines, catamarans, 
full displacements and semi-displacement. Two 
dozen cruising vessels will be on hand for 
viewing.

The seminar program covers all aspects of 
cruising and the cruising lifestyle, whether your 
interest is in weekend, long-term, passagemaking 
or coastal cruising. The meals offer you a chance 
to meet others with the same interests as you, to 
exchange information on all the topics that 
evolve from cruising as well as enjoy of the 
evening programs.

Trawler Fest represents an opportunity to see 
cruising vessels without crowded docks and to 
speak with dealers, designers, manufacturers and 
brokers in a one-on-one situation while on the 
vessels or at the meals. 

A special program called Trawler Fest University 
precedes the main event. It is a two-day, 
hands-on, in-depth class on diesel engines 
presented by Bob Smith of American Diesel 
(limited to 15 participants), and a one-day Boat 
Handling Course for Women (limited to four women).

Here is the complete schedule of Trawler Frest dates for this year:

   Stuart, Florida - January 27-29, 2005
   Poulsbo, Washington - June 9-11, 2005
   Newport, Rhode Island - July 21-23, 2005
   Manitowoc, Wisconsin - August 18-20, 2005
   Solomons, Maryland - September 29-October 1, 2005

http://www.trawlerfest.com
toll-free: 888-968-3378

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CUBA CRUISING SITE GETS PERMIT TO CRUISE CUBA
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Rio Communications, publisher of the online 
magazine Cuba Cruising Net, will be researching 
the north coast of Cuba in 2005 thanks to a U.S. 
Treasury Department license to visit the 
embargoed nation.

Rio Communications principal Peter Swanson and 
associate Ken Fickett have been granted the 
license to make one voyage to Cuba between now 
and April 30, though the license can be amended 
if additional visits to Cuba are necessary to 
achieve research goals.

The online magazine is dedicated to cruising the 
coast of Cuba despite current regulations that 
effectively ban U.S. citizens from traveling 
there by boat. The website address is 
http://www.cubacruising.net, a name intended to 
evoke the various radio netsthat provide 
community and essential information to expatriate 
cruisers throughout the Caribbean.

The Cuban coast, with its 2,000 miles of 
coastline, 1,600 cays and dozens of bays and 
inlets, comprises some of the finest cruising 
grounds on the planet precisely because of 40 
years of enforced isolation. If you want to 
travel back in time to see what the Bahamas and 
the Caribbean were like in the days of Ernest 
Hemingway, you could do no better than a voyage 
to Cuba. The sheer size of it—and in such a state 
of preservation—combined with Cuba's rich history 
and culture and her friendly people surely 
elevate Cuba to one of the top three cruising 
grounds in the world, says Swanson, editor and 
webmaster of the new site.

A veteran newspaper editor and marine journalist, 
Swanson likes to joke that the website was 
launched "at the exactly the worst time in 
history" because of stricter measures enacted by 
the Bush administration against Cuba. Swanson 
stresses that cubacruising.net will strive to 
avoid politics, reporting on them only to the 
degree that they affect cruising sailors and 
powerboaters. That is not to say that 
cubacruising.net is totally silent about 
politics; it supports the right of U.S. citizens 
to travel by boat to a nation that poses no 
threat to the security of the American homeland.

Swanson is a former senior editor at Yachting 
magazine and former editor of PassageMaker 
magazine. During a 20-year journalism career in 
New Hampshire, including four presidential 
primaries, he served eight as editor of the 
statewide New Hampshire Sunday News. In 1998, he 
was a principal figure in the launch of a new 
Sunday newspaper in New Hampshire; as such he was 
the first editor of Foster's Sunday Citizen, 
sister paper of Foster's Daily Democrat, a 
regional newspaper group spanning from the Lakes 
Region to the Maine-New Hampshire coast.

   http://www.cubacruising.net

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PASSAGEMAKING LIST ADDED TO TRAWLER FORUMS
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