51st Annual Conference: Final Agenda

Updated 2.21.2024

Please note, while this is the final agenda, conference shenanigans happen. All speakers and sessions are subject to change. We don’t like it, but it happens!

As we receive speaker presentations, they will be embedded in the corresponding post and it will be noted on the agenda which presentations are available.

Here is the list of attendees.

Crew Resource Day on Tuesday, January 30th, 1200 – 1800 EST
View the Agenda and videos from Crew Resource Day

Sunday, Feb. 4th:
0800 – 5:00p: Board Meeting
1:00 – 5:00p: Registration Open
4:00 – 5:30p: Women’s MeetUp (doors will close promptly at 4:00p)
7:00 – 7:30p: First Time Attendee Networking
8:00 – 10:00p: Trivia!

Monday, Feb. 5th
6:30 – 8:30a: Breakfast
8:00 – 5:00p: Registration Open
8:30 – 9:00a: Opening remarks and general housekeeping
9:00 – 11:30a: Workshops
A. Radar Training for Mates (no presentation)
B. Designing, Implementing, and Practicing Effective Crisis Response (presentation available)
C. Feedback: Giving, Receiving, and Recording (presentation available)

11:30 – 12:30p: Lunch

12:30 – 1:30p: Keynote Address: Nathan Dudley, Billion Oyster Project (presentation available)

1:45 – 2:45p: Breakout Sessions 1
A. Focused Conversation: Tuning up your Governance Rigging (no presentation)
B. Mariner Credentialling 201 (presentation available)
C. Weight for Wings (presentation available)
D. NOAA Navigation Management: Sunsetting Paper Charts (no presentation)

3:00 – 4:00p: Breakout Sessions 2
A. Coast Guard Traveling Inspector
B. Mariner Credentialling Assistance (no presentation)

4:15 – 5:15p: Breakout Sessions 3
A. Covering Your Credential (presentation available)
B. Teaching How to Teach (presentation available)
C. Extreme Maritime Weather (presentation available)

5:30-7:30p: Welcome Reception, sponsored by Practical Navigator and MM-Seas

Tuesday, Feb. 6th
6:30 – 8:30a: Breakfast
8:00 – 5:00p: Registration Open
8:30 – 9:00a: Opening remarks and general housekeeping

9:00 – 11:30a: Workshops
A. Sailing Endorsement License Course (no presentation)
B.  Modern Rope Splicing Demo (no presentation)
C. The Blue Mind: Mental Health and the Water

11:30 – 12:30p: Lunch

12:30 – 1:30p: All Hands: Sexual Assault/Sexual Harassment in the Maritime Environment

1:45 – 2:45p: Breakout Sessions 4
A. Management Skills for New Leaders (presentation available)
B. Cyber Security for non-profits (presentation available)
C. Paths in Maritime Employment (presentation available)
D. Optional Listening session for SASH follow up

3:00 – 4:00p: Breakout Sessions 5
A. Bridge Resource Management (presentation available)
B. Coverages and Lessons Learned for New Owners and Executive Directors (presentation available)
C. Your First Command (presentation available)

4:15 – 5:15p: Breakout Sessions 6
A. Blueprints for Inclusion (presentation available)
B. Donor Fatigue: Fact or Fiction?
C. Maximizing Revenue Opportunities

5:00 – 8:00p: Simulator walkthroughs, sponsored by Wartsila Maritime. Space is limited. Sign ups required at registration
7:00 – 8:30p: Talent Show. Bring your best and brightest…Or just the ones that want to show off.

Wednesday, Feb. 7
6:30 – 8:30a: Breakfast
8:00 – 5:00p: Registration Open
8:30 – 9:00a: Opening remarks and general housekeeping

9:00 – 11:30a: Workshops
A. .. First aid and CPR, Red Cross (no presentation)
B. Revising the Guidelines for Education Under Sail (presentation available)
C. Crafting Resumes for Maritime and Beyond (presentation available)
D. Sail-Rite Machine session 1 (no presentation)

11:30 – 12:30p: Lunch

12:30 – 1:30p: All Hands Session: Annual General Meeting and State of Tall Ships America

1:45 – 2:45p: Breakout Sessions 7
A. Managing a High Performing Safety Culture (presentation available)
B. Sail-Rite Machine session 2 (no presentation)
C. Women on the Water –
D. Naval Architecture – Ask Me Anything (presentation available)

3:00 – 4:00p: Breakout Sessions 8
A. Preparing for Shipyards (presentation available)
B. Leveraging Generative AI in Non-Profit Organizations (presentation available)
C. . Marine Weather Information: Where are we Going? (presentation available)

4:15 – 5:15p: Closing Plenary and Awards, sponsored by Allen Insurance and Financial
5:30-7:30p: Awards Reception, sponsored by Allen Insurance and Financial

Thursday, Feb. 8th
9:00a – 12:00p: Field Trip to Ocean Prediction Center

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Crew Resource Day – Final Agenda

Thank you so much for joining us for our fourth Crew Resource Day!

Each of the videos for the session are embedded in the relevant post. Just click the link and you’ll see the video under the summary of the session.

1200-1215 EST – Opening Remarks

1215-1315: Financial Planning for Mariners

1315-1330: Break

1330-1430: Building Shipboard Community

1430-1445: Break

1445-1545: Mariner Credentialling 101: For New Crew

1545-1600: Break

1600-1700: Introduction to Modern Fibers

1715-1745: Three Sheets in the Wind-The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions with Cynthia Barrett

1745-1800: Closing Remarks

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Crew Resource Day: Three Sheets to The Wind

Crew Resource Day: Three Sheets to The Wind

Speaker: Cynthia Barrett, author of Three Sheets to the Wind: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions

The English language is chockablock with nautical expressions. In fact our inherited maritime language is spoken so often in conversation that it goes unnoticed. Filibusters are the invention of pirates, not the US senate. The expression turn a blind eye was inspired by Admiral Nelson, who in the heat of battle, raised his telescope to his blind eye and announced he could not see the signal flag commanding him to break off action.

Cynthia Barrett author of Three Sheets to the Wind: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions illuminates the colorful, often humorous, etymological roots of  many of these phrases. She also discusses how her great grandfather, a whaler out of Cold Spring Harbor, who rounded Cape Horn three times, and her father, a WWII naval lieutenant who was in the D-Day invasion, inspired her book.  She will  discuss how the great maritime novelists like Melville, Forester and O’Brian all reached for the language of sailors in their works. The author includes how research for her book led her to the New York Yacht Club’s renowned maritime library, the dusty basements of second hand book shops, and the discovery of her Long Island whaling ancestor’s journals, letters, and drawings. This lecture is a guide to your language, so that the next time you call your friend a loose cannon you’ll know it is you who is talking like a sailor.

Cynthia Barrett is an author and book editor. She grew up in New York, and has a long family history near the sea. Her great grandfather was a Long Island whaler, and naval captain in the Civil War. Her father, a WWII navy lieutenant, was in the D-Day invasion of France.  Cynthia graduated from Smith College and the University of Virginia School of Law. After a brief stint practicing law, she became a senior editor at Doubleday, HarperCollins, and Barnes & Noble. In the summer she spends as much time as possible on the water with her family on the North Fork of Long Island.

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Crew Resource Day: Uses of Modern Fibers and Splicing Techniques

Crew Resource Day – January 30th

Speaker: Jamie White, Master Rigger

Master rigger Jamie White will explain the advantages and disadvantages of using Aramid, Kevlar, Dyneema, and other high-modulus polyethylene (HMPE) synthetic fibers instead of steel for standing rigging.  He will discuss the numerous benefits of synthetic fibers for square-rigged vessels and schooners.  Jamie was first exposed to the use of modern ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) cordage when working as a rigger on two of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films.  Currently he is using Kevlar jacketed with polyester in the rigging renewal of Los Angeles Maritime Institute’s topsail schooner SWIFT OF IPSWICH.

Master rigger Jamie White has worked in the traditional rigging and square-rig sail training since the early 1980s, building an extensive knowledge and understanding of historic and replica sailing ships and their operational, restoration, and maintenance.

In 1998, he served as master rigger on the award-winning restoration of the 1896 barque Glenlee in Glasgow, Scotland.  In 2016 he supervised and directed the multi-million dollar rigging restoration of the 1885 full-rigged ship Wavertree in New York City, which received a preservation award.  In 1995 he served as master rigger on the 1995 restoration of the 1904 four-masted barque Moshulu in Philadelphia, PA.  He also served as master rigger on the 1886 full-rigged ship Balclutha, and the three-masted schooner C.A. Thayer.  Beginning in 2012, during his 5-year tenure as director of the 1877 barque Elissa, he planned and led the second multi-million dollar restoration of this internationally significant historic vessel.

He has sailed over 30,000 miles as AB, bosun, mate, or master on many square-rigged and traditional sailing vessels.  These include the New Zealand built HMAV Bounty, 1896 full rigged ship Balclutha, 1877 barque Elissa, topsail schooner Californian, galleon Golden Hinde, 1863 barque Star of India, brig Pilgrim, schooner Adventuress, three-masted schooner Jacqueline, brigantine Soren Larsen, split topsail ketch Hawaiian Chieftain, brig Lady Washington, schooner Atlantas, and the 1891 scow schooner Alma, along with a handful of other historic and replica sailing ships. 

Over the last twenty years, he has served as rigging consultant on the 1863 barque Star of India, 1878 four masted full rigged ship Falls of Clyde, 1901 barque RRS Discovery, and the 1885 barque Polly Woodside.  Currently, Jamie is the master rigger on the rig restoration of the square-topsail schooner Swift of Ipswich in San Pedro/Los Angeles harbor for the Los Angeles Maritime Institute.

Jamie enjoys passing along the traditions of rigging and sailing historic ships and traditional yachts.  He has led many workshops and seminars in traditional rigging and wire splicing techniques.

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Conference Session: Covering Your Credential- An Introduction to License & Professional Liability Insurance

Conference Session: Covering Your Credential- An Introduction to License & Professional Liability Insurance

Speaker: Chris Buseman, 360 Coverage Pros

License Insurance: Most mariners have heard of it, but few carry it to protect their credentials, and many are unsure of how it even works. This session will detail what license insurance is and why it is critical in safeguarding USCG-licensed officer’s careers. In addition to discussing coverages, attendees will gain an understanding of USCG classification of vessel incidents and will examine current and past legal case study scenarios in which license insurance did, or could have played a role in protecting the mariner.

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Chris manages all Digital Insurance Programs including Mariners Liability Insurance under the 360 Coverage Pros brand name, administered by global insurance broker, Arthur J. Gallagher. Chris has over a decade of professional liability and license protection experience and has spoken at various industry conferences, universities, and events; most recently the annual Fort Lauderdale Mariners Club Seminar. Prior to joining the 360/Gallagher team, Chris worked within the business unit at Aon Insurance Services. 360 Coverage Pros has partnered with Allen Insurance to provide Allen’s insureds and partners access to best-in-class, comprehensive marine license and professional liability insurance.

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Conference Session: Teaching How to Teach

Conference Session: Teaching How to Teach

Speakers
Holly Buresh, Educational Programs Manager for the Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island
Madeleine Sandler, Program Manager, World Ocean School

In this session we will be exploring ways to empower professional mariners to become teachers and trainers of their trade. Our objective is to open up a conversation about ways for professionals to implement stronger teaching methods for all ages. Participants should come ready to engage with each other and reflect on the training they have gone through and/or given.

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Holly Buresh is the Educational Programs Manager for the Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island. She is from Nebraska and Indiana and went on to study Marine Science at Eckerd College. Her time after college doing research eventually led her into the world of tall ships, where she first served as a deckhand/educator with World Ocean School. Holly has been involved ever since specializing in running educational programs, training leadership, and developing curriculum for various tall ships and organizations on the West and East coast of the US along with the Caribbean.

Growing up in Central New York, Maddy began sailing small boats on her local lake in elementary school and got her first job there as a sailing camp instructor. She took a break from sailing for a few years to get her bachelor’s degree in history from Oberlin College and later moved to Boston to teach 3rd grade. After a few years of remote work due to Covid, Maddy was eager to get back on the water. In 2021, she joined World Ocean School as a Deckhand Educator and Program Coordinator on board both Roseway and Denis Sullivan. She recently switched over to a land-based position at WOS as Program Manager, supporting young sailors and developing educational programs.

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Conference Session: Extreme Maritime Weather

Conference Session: Extreme Maritime Weather

Speakers
Dr. Michael Folmer, Dr. Logan Dawson, NOAA/NWS Ocean Prediction Center
Joe Sienkiewicz, NOAA/NWS Ocean Prediction Center
Dan Brown, NOAA/NWS National Hurricane Center

Over the past year ocean weather has demonstrated its fierce nature as evidenced by incidents such as the Viking Polaris wave strike in Drake Passage, the recent series of hurricane force storms impacting the eastern North Atlantic and tropical cyclones in multiple ocean basins including the incredible intensification of Hurricane Otis as it made landfall in Mexico as a category 5 storm.
The panelists from the NOAA Ocean Prediction Center and National Hurricane Center will each present an aspect of predicting extreme maritime weather and then open the floor for Q&A. The close proximity of the conference to the NOAA facility in College Park offers a unique opportunity for exchange between tall ships sailors and NOAA marine meteorologists and hurricane forecasters. Please join us in this opportunity.

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Crew Resource Day: Building Shipboard Community

Crew Resource Day: Building Shipboard Community

Speakers
Taylor Methven
David Stoltz, Chief Mate, Bowdoin

Are you curious about how leaders on other boats support healthy culture? Unsure about how to
start conversations about it? In this session, we will share perspectives about creating an
inclusive culture that can support learning and development for crew. We will also discuss
identifying group values, communication styles, and maintaining community on ships.

Taylor comes from New Hampshire and her interest in sailing tall ships started on Ocean Classroom on Roseway. Since then, she studied Geology and has sailed as crew on Roseway, Geronimo, Dennis Sullivan (with World Ocean School), and Pride of Baltimore II. In addition to traditional sailing, Taylor enjoys developing and participating in curriculum for holistic learning experiences for crew and students alike. During time off, Taylor likes to explore on nordic skis, on her bike, or by finding pick up hockey games to play.

David is currently working as the Chief Mate of Bowdoin, the dedicated sail training vessel at Maine Maritime Academy. David is passionate about making traditional sail a more inclusive and sustainable career. He began sailing professionally in 2016 and has worked aboard several vessels in the American traditional sailing fleet. David graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia and holds a 100 ton USCG license.

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