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August 19th - Thursday
Starting Afternoon	Moorage available for METAL BOATS at the City Docks! Check in with the dockmaster (Tom at 360 410-7031) when you arrive. We will be doing pre-sign-ins for the early arrivals, whether by boat or by land!
Until...?	We can use some help with setting up the meeting room, then all are free for dinner and relaxation
August 20th - Friday
7:30 am	Sign-in or Register upstairs at the meeting room of the Landing Mall – follow the signs. Coffee, tea, cocoa – muffins and fruits to start the day!
8:00 - 10.00 am	Welcome and introductions by MBS President Candy Larreau. Welcome to the boating community of Port Angeles by Doug Sandau (Port Angeles)  Our yearly Member introductions (Power Point pictures?). There will be plenty of time this year for all to participate.
10:15 - 11.45 am	"Marine Electronics - A Minimalist's Approach": Presented by Greg Filipek.   Greg Filipek is the owner of Cruising Consultants, a marine consulting and outfitting business in the Puget Sound area.  Before starting his business, he worked for West Marine in several capacities, including as senior technical advisor at their CA headquarters.  As part of that position he wrote product training guides and technical references, as well as the "West Advisors" found in their annual catalog.  Prior to that he spent time commercial fishing in Alaska and working as a biologist for U.S. Fish and Wildlife.  Growing up in MN, the Land of 10,000 Lakes, he has spent much of his life on or around the water.  He currently lives in Seattle with his wife Nicole and new kitten on their 38' steel sailboat "Baraka".
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch Break   Various Speakers & Commercial Member Information displays will be open in the back of the meeting room! Port Angeles has a great selection of restaurants nearby.  Check at www.portangeles.org for more information.
1:00 - 2:15	"Sickness of the Sea", presented by Charles Kaluza             The presentation will address the subjects of seasickness and first aid at sea... Charles Kaluza, DO - is a mostly retired ENT Surgeon who grew  up on the waters of Minnesota and Ontario lakes and  rivers.  He has been published internationally and  received many awards.  He has completed the fitting out  of a John Simpson design, Fidelity, in which he cruised to  Alaska last summer.
2:30 - 4:00	"Choosing the proper coatings for your project whether building or repairing" presented by Kevin Todd, Marine Technical Specialist. Kevin Todd, Sherwin Williams Marine Technical Specialist, 2005-present NACE Certified # 16200 36 years in coatings business. Specializations: spraying 100% Solids & Nuclear Condenser Repair.   Along with various specialty projects throughout United States, worked over six-year period with Russian Nuclear Industry, teaching coatings and sandblasting to Russian workers and demoed single-coat marine coatings at Hyundai Shipyards, South Korea.
4:00 - 6:00 pm	Q & A With Vendors The back of the meeting room will be open with the various speakers and commercial members manning their booths - this is the time to really ask questions that you didn't get answered yet! These people will also be showing their items/information and taking orders for equipment.
7:00 - 8:00 pm   8:00 pm - ?	Dinner and Keynote Speaker. We are planning an entertaining evening with first a "no Host Bar" (you can also BYOB), then a wonderful dinner with Dr Jessica Stone presenting "Sweat, Tears or the Sea". The Smugglers Inn Restaurant will have dinner buffet special available (Prime rib, chicken Riesling, or Pasta Primavera with all the trimmings) Friday evening’s dinner/w speaker - $20 a person. You may order this meal along with your Festival registration signup. Jessica H. Stone, Ph.D. (Jes) is a writer, educator and avid sailor.　She is the author of a syndicated bi-monthly column on cruising and the best-seller, "Doggy on Deck – Life at Sea with a Salty Dog". Boat-less in Seattle (at least for the moment), she lives in a houseboat on Lake Union. www.doggyondeck.com.　 Sweat, tears or the sea… Faced with a “this can’t be happening to me” life crisis, Jessica Stone (Jes) packed up her Siamese cat, new puppy and laptop and headed for the tropics. During a twist of magical fate she found her life’s passion – the sea. Dreaming of skippering her own vessel she created a plan to buy a boat and learn to sail. Using the grit your teeth determination found only in “stubborn women” she learned to tune a diesel engine, invent husbands when threatened by foreign men and make fashionable earrings from beach combings. She’s survived major storms at sea, lived through a dismasting on the ocean and watched as a yard in French Polynesia dropped her boat engine from eight feet in the air. Her story, like many of ours, is one of discovery, blushing red mistakes and wide-grinned triumph. Join us for a bit of rollicking high adventure with Jes as she helps us understand that whether it’s sweat, tears or the sea; the cure for everything is salt water.

August 21st - Saturday
8:00 am	Coffees tea, cocoa - muffins and fruits to start the day.
8:15 am	Opening Remarks and Introductions
8:45 - 10:15	"Panel Discussion on “Boating Insurance and Surveys" Presented by Art Campbell, CPCU, ARM, AMIM & John Baird Art Campbell:  Has over 35 years experience in the insurance industry as an agent / broker Graduate of Florida State University majoring in Risk Management and Insurance. Adjunct instructor at Broward Community College, teaching ocean marine and inland marine insurance Member Metal Boat Society, Propeller Club of Port Everglades Past President of Fort Lauderdale Mariners Club, and Gold Coast Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Chapter Retired Chief Master Sergeant with United States Air Force Honorary member of The Black Watch [Royal Highland Regiment of Canada]. Founding member the Scottish American Society of Southeast Florida Sailor: Sails an Alan Pape designed steel cutter out of Fort Lauderdale, FL. Has crewed on sailboat delivery trips from the Bahamas, and the Chesapeake to British Virgin Islands. Photographer, Haggis Hunter and Raconteur John Baird:  John Baird is a SAMS surveyor and member of ABYC. He has been surveying yachts and commercial vessels since 1997. Over the past several years – Baird has specialized in aluminum and steel vessels including high speed pax catamaran surveys for King County, Clipper Navigation, and other state and regional transportation authorities. In addition – he has experience in wooden boat refastening and restoration including time spent as a trustee for the Steamer Virginia V in Seattle. For more information – please contact John at 360.471.6148 or john@zenithmaritime.com
10:30 - 12:00	"What every young lad/lass wanted to know about corrosion but was afraid to ask” By Jim Robertson  Jim graduated from Vancouver Tech in 1943, in the mid year of World War 2. Took off to sea and was on ships for the next 47 years. He picked up his Chief Engineers Ticket in 1956, and sailed in that capacity until his first retirement in 1990. Became a 50 year life member of the United States Naval Institute, and several other bodies. This gave him access to a world of accurate, technical information, corrosion included.

10:30 - 12:00	"Making boating fun for the women!"
12:00 - 1:00	Break for lunch and time to check out the various speaker and commercial member displays/items. Check at www.portangeles.org for more information on the multitude of local restaurants.

1:00 - 2:15

"Considerations on Mast Building"  Dan Kulin, CEO of Port Townsend Rigging     Aluminum mast design, engineering and construction. Material and scantling choices. Systems integration; standing rig, running rigging/line control and electrical.   Dan began his career with boats at the age of twenty in Olaf Hansen’s boat shop in Wrangell, Alaska. Olaf, a master shipwright, placed Dan under the tutorage of shipwrights, Jim Rhodes and Arthur Svendsen. Dan has spent his adult life working on and around boats from Alaska to Washington. He is a skilled engineer and technician in wood, plastic, fiberglass, and metal. The rigging business has given Dan an opportunity to further develop and integrate his engineering, design, and fabrication skills. In the last several years these skills have been put to use building custom spars for long range ocean cruising. Dan is an avid reader of history, philosophy, and science. Some of his favorite reading material relates to tools, material, and equipment used in his work. He loves to ski and rock climb with his family. In addition to being the family’s expert ski tuner he is known among his friends for his in-depth knowledge of ski construction, quality and application

2:15 - 3:45	John Simpson, The 2010 Metal Boat Festival’s Designer of the year. John will be presenting ~ "AFTER THE HULL", or "Filling that empty hull" - a discussion encompassing "Completion - Conversions - Modifications"  The presentation has been developed from a talk given to the Society of Accredited Marine Surveyors in Victoria, BC, April 11, 2003 and is offered as a guide only. Based upon the author’s many years of experience with boats it is readily apparent that each project must be fully assessed by competent persons with experience. This guide applies to all boats, both pleasure and commercial, regardless of material or locale, professional or home built.   John Simpson has been involved with boats since childhood and this evolved into to a successful career in naval architecture and boat design. This path has been the long but thorough route – 4 years of shipyard & technical training, several years of working with other naval architects, 3 years with a boat builder doing purchasing, estimating, mould tooling, outfitting, engine installation, sea trials, and even some design work. A true ‘hands on’ experience and as the yard owner observed, …a chance to learn and avoid “Architects Dreams”. In 1978 John opened his own design office and over the following years has done over 100 designs for power, sail, pleasure, commercial, and military vessels in a variety of materials for both domestic and foreign clients. In 1980 he won the Cruising World magazine’s Design Award for his 42’ cutter “Fidelity” (subsequently featured in Danny Green’s Cruising Sailboat Kinetics). The “Fidelity” was the forerunner of “Perelandra”, a 43’ round bilge steel sailboat as featured in the book Steel Away and owned/built by Authors Capt. LeCain Smith and Shelia Moir, one of the founders of the Metal Boat Society.. Currently, John is spending less time on new designs and more on stock plans, consultation, and assisting people. This also extends into his second activity, the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary, of which he has been a member for 13 years.
4  6 pm	The MBF Boaters Swap Meet, with 2010 Speakers and Commercial members Booths Downstairs & outside in the covered parking lot at the Landing Mall will be a Boaters Swap Meet mixed in with this years speakers & MBS commercial members booths. Any of the attendees can bring items for this. Just remember that the items to swap/sell must be boat related. Do you have extra materials, tools, books, winches, maybe even a dingy that you don’t need anymore – bring it and see if someone else can use it. This should be a lot of fun, a great way to share some of those still usable items that you don’t need anymore, (some of them will no doubt be brand new) or to pick up some that you really can’t do without, and hopefully save, or make, some money! Those who don’t want to “swap” anything can spend more time learning (or buying) from the speakers & MBS commercial members or just mingling with the rest of us! This will be a couple of hours of fun while we are waiting for our BBQ.
6 - 7 pm	The Boat Walk  -    At the City Docks (floating) and Landing Mall Parking Lot (trailered) We are expecting a good turnout of metal boats at various stages of construction and finish. These vessels will be open for folks to view and ask questions. A great opportunity to ask and learn - how others solved the design and construction issues in building/owning a metal boat...
7 pm	Seafood BBQ  - Salmon provided by: Platypus Marine, Port Angeles  This year's Saturday evening will a relaxing BBQ with a special talk by Greg Filipek. He and wife Nicole missed our 2009 Festival as they took their long awaited trip north to Alaska. He will share that adventure by word & pictures with lots of humor thrown in. Of course, Saturday night is always the time for the Raffle drawing!       "Cruising the Inside Passage": Presented by Greg Filipek              For boaters in the Pacific Northwest, we have some of the best cruising grounds in the world right in our own backyard. Take a photographic journey from Seattle to Glacier Bay, Alaska and back while enjoying some of the natural wonders this area has to offer.
August 22nd - Sunday
8:30 am     9:00 - 10:00             10:15 - ???	Coffee tea, cocoa etc...   2010 Metal Boat Society Yearly Business Meeting As of this year we will again be having our annual general business meeting at the August Festival. The AGM is a requirement of the State of WA, where we are incorporated - also members are interested in what has been happening with the Society during the past year, and wish to have a voice in any changes which could be taking place. Be sure and attend so you can hear all that has been happening, and have a vote on the items which will be discussed - one vote per membership (family, single or commercial). The Metal Boat Society Board, which includes the presidency and 5 board members, have worked hard as a group to come up with a number of items to present to the members as a whole. No doubt this will be a lively and interesting meeting.   Designers and Builders Forum. This annual information-packed wrap-up event will include open discussion of design and construction issues with the professional panel, so bring your questions! This year's panel will include our designers-in-residence John Simpson (J.Simpson Ltd - Delta BC), and Pete Silva (Iota Metals - Bellingham, WA). Hopefully designer Ted Brewer will also be dropping in.  . Metal boat designer and builder expertise par excellence.
10:15 - ???	Women's Forum/Panel Our now annual women's forum will be a time that we gals will split off from the rest of the group (that means the men) and have a short walk to a special place nearby where our panel of women will take all the time you want to answer any questions that you want about the boating world. This has been one of the highlights of the Festival as all of us women need some time when we can ask anything we want about boating without any men around. Right? Lots of great information, laughs, and as we are all friends by this time it is a very comfortable setting.   Time to say our goodbyes until next Festival. Lots of handshakes and hugs. Lots of thank you's for coming and sharing with the rest of us. Now to start preparing for the 2011 Metal Boat Festival!
After the Festival	Committee meetings and planning for next year. Anyone interested can come and sit in on our "after the Festival committee meeting". We'll be doing some discussing about how things went and some initial planning for next year. What did you like or not like? What would you like to see for next year? Less of? More of? And of course, we will need committee members and helpers to get started on the 2011 Festival...