and on-the-water teaching techniques, risk management, safety issues, lesson planning, creative activities, ethical concerns, and sports physiology and psychology. Prerequisites for the 40-hour course include being 16years old and successful completion of a NASBLA safe boating course. Holding current CPR and First Aid cards is strongly suggested. Course will be at Jacksonville’s Florida Yacht Club. Jabbo Gordon will be the instructor trainer and candidates will be sailing 420s and driving Boston Whalers on the St. John’s River. Register at www.ussailing.org under training. For questions, contact Jabbo Gordon at anavssbn619@gmail.com, or call (423) 202-007. US SAILING/POWERBOATING Safe Powerboat Handling A great course for those who operate whalers and similar single-screw powerboats including recreational boaters, sailing instructors, race committee and other on-the-water volunteers with some boating experience who want to learn the safe handling of small powerboats, or improve their on-thewater boat handling skills. A US SAILING Small Powerboat Certification is available upon successful completion of the course and satisfies the requirement for instructors seeking a US SAILING Level 1 certification. This is a two-day course with two full days; or a three-day course, part time each day; or the accelerated one full-day course. • Nov. 3-4, 7-8, 10-11, 13-14, 17-18, 24-25, 28-29 (seven separate two-day courses). NC Boat Rentals, Southport, NC, Kevin Hennessey. (910) 279-2355 • Nov. 3-4, Dec. 1-2. (separate two-day courses). • Nov. 17, Dec. 15 (separate one-day accelerated courses). Best Boat Club and Rentals, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Dean Sealey. dean@goboatingnow.com. (954) 523-0033 • (all separate, five-day courses.) Edison Sailing Center. Fort Myers Beach, FL. Stephanie Webb. (239) 454-5114. Student courses for ages 10-17. 1-4 pm daily.
BOAT SHOWS Nov. 8-11. 40th Fort Myers Boat Show. Harborside Convention Complex and City Yacht Basin, Fort Myers, FL.
10-6 Thursday-Saturday, 10-5 Sunday. Show is put on by the Southwest Florida Marina Industries Association and managed by Good Event Management, (954) 570-7785, john@goodeventmanagement.com. www.fortmyersboatshow.com. www.swfmia.com. St. Petersburg Boat Show and Strictly Sail, Nov. 29-Dec. 2. Go to page 34 for complete information and seminar schedule. SOUTHWINDS has booth #115 at the show in the sailing tent and distributes an additional 2000 copies at the show. To advertise, contact editor@southwindsmagazine. com, 941795-8704. St. Petersburg Power & Sailboat Show Announces Debut of Sailboat Builders and Designers Pavilion Organizers of the 35th annual St. Petersburg Power & Sailboat Show® have announced the debut of the Sailboat Builders and Designers Pavilion as a new attraction at the 2012 show, scheduled to take place from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2 at the Progress Energy Center for the Arts Mahaffey Theater Yacht Basin and Albert Whitted Park. The new pavilion offers builders and designers of custom sailboats a unique setting to display their custom creations, even if they do not have a boat available to display at the show. Located at the northeast corner of the in-water sailboat display, the new pavilion provides an ideal indoor venue for exhibitors to showcase their sailboat design options and concepts, and is expected to be of particular interest to builders who do not have dealers in the St. Petersburg area or do not currently have a particular boat to display. For more on the boat show, go to www.showmanagement.com.
SEAFOOD FESTIVALS Nov 2-3. 49th Annual Florida Seafood Festival. Apalachicola, FL. The state’s oldest maritime exhibit. The two-day event annually draws thousands of visitors to this scenic historic town at the mouth of the Apalachicola River. The festival features delicious seafood, arts and crafts exhibits, seafood related events and displays under the shady oaks of Apalachicola’s Battery Park. Some of the events include oyster eating, oyster shucking, a parade, a
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