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Looping 101 Track
As follow-up to Ben Stein's tablet navigation overview presentation (on Wednesday), this presentation will show you how to use the tools Ben discussed to plan and implement a passage. Using the section of the ICW from northern Florida (Fernandina) into South Carolina, Jenna will show you how they use tools commonly used by Loopers including Navionics Boating, AquaMap, Windy, NOAA Zone Forecasts, shared tracks and crowd-sourced information to determine the best departure days and times to navigate a few of the more challenging sections of the ICW. These tools allow Timeless to arrive at her embarkation and departure ports on schedule (that dirty little word on a boat).
Location: Hibiscus Hall A
Jenna Ginsberg holds a 100 Ton Masters Near Coast license, with towing endorsement and has piloted all manner of crafts up and down the east coast of the U.S., the Gulf Coast, the Florida Keys and the Caribbean, but she can never get enough of her favorite cruising grounds: the coast of New England, especially Maine.
While she didn’t grow up on the water boating, from a very young age she loved the ocean and swimming. Boating became part of her soul in 1997 when, with her wife Darlene, they rented a 14 ft Maine-built Corsin runabout and explored nearly all of Moosehead Lake. Less than 2 weeks later they bought their first boat, and as they say, the rest is history.
Darlene and Jenna learned to navigate with a compass, chart, pencil, dividers, and a pair of binoculars and off they went exploring, nearly always ending up where they expected. They have owned countless boats over the years from their restored and beloved 1977 9 ft Boston Whaler Squall to their current fleet consisting of a 62' Offshore flush deck motor yacht, its 13 ft Boston Whaler tender and a 23 ft Boston Whaler dual console they tow behind to the islands.
Jenna has experience on nearly every type of power and self-propelled boat from 9 ft to 72 ft, with the majority of her nearly 20,000 nautical miles logged on dozens of vessels from 42 ft to 62 ft. She has kayaked from New Hampshire to Canada, and from Key Largo to Key West, exploring and island hopping along the way. She guides owners on their boats (or hers) as well as kayaking groups through the lobster pot-laden, fog-filled waters up and down the coast of Maine.
Jenna is a registered Maine Sea Kayaking Guide and a certified advanced, open-water scuba diver. When she isn’t on the water, she may be officiating an alpine World Cup Ski Race as an international level official or race directing a triathlon as a certified race director. Jenna obviously loves the outdoors with her list of diverse endeavors, but her heart belongs on the water.