Announcing our first "Finding Dory" transat webinar: "The Basic Checklist For an Ocean Passage".

 

I have the pleasure and honour to coordinate/administrate "Finding Dory", a social community of cruisers who plan to cross the Atlantic (East-West) next winter (2025-2026 season), in collaboration with Helena and Steve from "Noforeignland".

This is the 4th time/season we "organize" and support a flottila of cruisers crossing the Atlantic East-West. This season, we're organizing the group early on, in the season, and also, in collaboration with "Noforeignland" and several experts supporting our initiative, present several webinars to assist the aspiring "transat-ers" in preparing their boat, and crew, for a safe passage.

You can read about the background, purpose and setup of this group, and planned webinars in this post on Noforeignland - which will also point you how to join this Whatsapp-based community.

We are ready to kick off our first webinar, in a series of several webinars, on July 22nd. This first introductory webinar will cover “the basic checklist for an ocean passage”. (from boat prep, to crew selection, food management, weather routing, safety, comms, watch systems etc…).

We will “touch” different topics at an “introductory” level, without yet going into the topics real deep… Topics like food management, provisioning, insurance, routing and weather etc.. we will delve into, at a much deeper level, in the further upcoming webinars).

The webinars will be held on “ZOOM” and consist of +- 45 minutes of presentation, followed by 30 minutes (or more if needed) of open Q-and-A/discussions/shared experiences amongst the participants.

This webinars are free for all “Finding Dory” members. We will record the session and publish the link to the recording afterwards to all members.

The instructions on how to join this webinar, are distributed to "Finding Dory" members only, rather than widely distributing the link via social media, mainly to avoid spammers to join in, and disturb our webinar.

So, if you want to join in for the webinars, first join the "Finding Dory" community, and via our Whatsapp group, we will send you details on how to join each webinar. Instructions on how to join the growing "Finding Dory" flotilla on Whatsapp, you can find in this Noforeignland blogpost.

About me:

And for those who don't know me yet, I am Peter and I "administrate" the "Finding Dory" flotilla. Since I retired from my job in the UN, I am a quasi full-time instructor-mentor-trainer supporting fellow cruisers and new boat owners. I am also a regatta sailor on "bigger" boats. Though I have about 50,000 Nm under my keel, with +- 14 open ocean passages and 6 transat, I provide my support for free, as I want to "give back" to the sailing community in exchange to what it gave to me: a life-long joyful experience of sailing and meeting other like-minded people. I am strong believer of "give joy, share your experience, support others", and "good karma will come to you".