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Site of the Day: http://www.pacificmotoryachts.com/index.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ T R A W L E R N E W S  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Broadcast on the Internet 01/17/05 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IN THIS ISSUE #118 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stuart kicks off 2005 West Marine Trawler Fest series Cuba cruising site gets permit to cruise Cuba Passagemaking Under Power added to trawler forums Request your FREE trial copy of Power Cruising How to reach us How to unsubscribe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STUART KICKS OFF 2005 WEST MARINE TRAWLER FEST SERIES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CUBA CRUISING SITE GETS PERMIT TO CRUISE CUBA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PASSAGEMAKING LIST ADDED TO TRAWLER FORUMS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Water World International, formerly Trawler World Productions, sponsors four different interactive mailing lists about trawlers and trawlering. The forums are all informative, often entertaining, and always free. They are the most popular trawler forums on the Net. Passagemaking Under Power, the newest list, was created to serve as a special forum for those already voyaging the world and those actively planning to engage in long-range cruising. 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