The Capn charting software is explained and demonstrated by Steve Bowden of SeaTech Systems. Presented by the experts from Alaska Diesel Electric, makers of Lugger engines and Northern Lights generators. A presentation on John Deere engines by specialists from John Deere Power Systems and CK Power Products of Florida. A presentation on Westerbeke engines and gensets by specialists from R. B. Grove, the Westerbeke dealer in Southwest Florida. Hoenk of West Marine will advise you how to select the best anchors for your needs and how to go about using them effectively.
Details are also in the registration brochure available at West Marine stores nationwide.
They'll be shortened to two days from four, but they'll be jam-packed with seminars on very specific themes and topics. Both will be very different from other Trawler Fests. The San Francisco Bay Trawler Fest on July 20-21 will become a special symposium on passagemaking under power. The Great Lakes Trawler Fest on August 24-25 will become the annual gathering of Loopaholics Unanimous. We have invited the most recent circumnavigator in a trawler, Ghanim al-Othman of Kuwait, to accept the 2001 Passagemaker of the Year Award.