Session: Characteristics of an Effective Sail Training Program

CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EFFECTIVE SAIL TRAINING PROGRAM – Nov. 15
(Developing a Generic Youth Development Program)

Summary
 Primary objectives in environmental education: Awakening wonder.    Prerequisites for effective environmental education (teacher prep for content, self-respect and community respect for stewardship.)   Complementary overlap for leadership/teambuilding programs and environmental education.   Creating challenge where none presents itself. Capturing and capitalizing on “A-ha” moments.   The critical role of masters and mates in effective sail training programs. Hiring and training of crew/instructors as a critical element of a successful program. Reflection as a core component of all types of programs.

Speakers: Jonathan Boulware, Jim Gladson, Nancy Richardson, Murry Henstock and CAPT Chris Sinnett

 Jonathan Boulware
Over the past 16 years Jonathan Boulware has worked in sail training vessels on both Pacific and Atlantic coasts including extensive experience in Northeast waters from Delaware Bay to Maine. He has served as Master, Mate, and Director of Marine Education for numerous programs including day environmental education, multi-week team building and leadership, and multi-month adjudication. He believes passionately in large sailing vessels as ideal platforms for all sorts of education and continues to work to refine and adapt programs and curriculum to the ever changing climate of experiential education.

 

Session: Incident Analysis-European Incident and North American Incident

INCIDENT ANALYSIS – European Incident and North American Incident- Nov. 15

Summary

Joint presentation (with RADM John Lang, former head of the UK MAIB and Ken Potter of  TSB Canada) on how marine casualty investigators look at accident causation with a view to improving maritime safety overall.  Approximately 10 minutes from each presenter, followed by 45 minutes of Q&A, including analysis of several marine casualty investigation reports.

Speakers: CAPT David Wood, John Lang and Ken Potter

 

CAPT David V.V.Wood, USCG (Ret.) 

CAPT, USCG (Ret.) with 30 years active duty, 15 afloat.  Commanded three cutters, including USCG Barque Eagle, 1988-92.  Licensed master mariner, unlimited.  Served in various positions on ASTA board, including Chairman, 1992—2001, member of ASTA Commodore’s Council 2001-present.  Served as a founding director of ISTA (predecessor to STI), 1997-2002.  Served as Chairman of the Class ‘A’ Tall Ships Forum, 2004-2007.  Instructor in professional maritime subjects, Marine Safety International, 1992-2002 and Northeast Maritime Institute, 2002-2007.  Author of numerous articles on tall ships and sail training, including “Cruising Literature: Tall Ships” in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History.

 

John Lang

John Lang
John is a professional mariner who first went to sea in 1959 as a navigating officer apprentice with P&O. He later transferred to the Royal Navy where, in a career spanning 33 years, he commanded two submarines and a frigate. His last appointment before retiring as a Rear Admiral in 1995 was Deputy Chief of Defense Intelligence. On leaving the Navy he was appointed the UK’s Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents.  
John is a Fellow of both the Nautical Institute and Royal Institute of Navigation and maintains numerous links with the wider maritime community. He is President of the Association of Sail Training Organisations (ASTO), on the Council of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and a Younger Brother of Trinity House. In June 2008 John became a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire.

Ken Potter, Transportation Safety Board of Canada
Ken grew up fascinated by ships and the sea which lead him to participated in the Sea Education Association’s Sea Semester in 1978 and continue on to the Georgian College Marine Engineering program.  Following service on several large sailing vessels, and in the Canadian merchant marine, he went back to SEA as a staff member in 1985 sailing on several Sea Semesters and participating in the construction of the SSV Corwith Cramer and the mid-life refit of the SSV Westward. Ken continues to be active with SEA, as a trustee and currently as an overseer, and member of the SEA marine advisor committee. 

 

Between 1990 and 1997 Ken worked as a NAMS certified marine surveyor specializing in large sailing yachts and sail training vessels. In 1997 he joined the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) as a senior marine accident investigator and following numerous accident investigations, assumed the position of Manager of Marine Investigation Operations.  Ken holds an Unlimited Chief Engineers license, a Bachelor of Maritime Studies from Memorial University of Newfoundland and is currently doing post graduate studies in Quality Management.

 

John is a Fellow of both the Nautical Institute and Royal Institute of Navigation and maintains numerous links with the wider maritime community. He is President of the Association of Sail Training Organisations (ASTO), on the Council of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and a Younger Brother of Trinity House. In June 2008 John became a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire

John is a Fellow of both the Nautical Institute and Royal Institute of Navigation and maintains numerous links with the wider maritime community. He is President of the Association of Sail Training Organisations (ASTO), on the Council of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and a Younger Brother of Trinity House. In June 2008 John became a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire.

 

Session: Growing the Legacy of Tall Ships Events in Your Port

GROWING THE LEGACY OF TALL SHIPS EVENTS IN YOUR PORT – Nov. 13 (Port Day)

Biography of Speaker: Sheila Brown

Sheila Brown is a Halifax, NS based higher education consultant. An Honours graduate of Cambridge University, she also holds an MA and PhD from the University of Alberta. After an extensive career in higher education and administration, she served as President and Vice-Chancellor of Mount Saint Vincent University for ten years, a position from which she retired in 2006.