PeterB Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 John Huth Weather and Waves Workshop Sunday , February 28th Meeting Room REI , Reading, MA 11:30AM to 4:00 PM (THIS EVENT has been RESCHEDULED from February 13th) John Huth once again has volunteered his time to present a workshop for NSPN on Weather Wind and Waves and how these apply to sea kayaking. John's past presentations have been favorites of club members. John is a long time NSPN member, and has a unique set of qualifications to present on this subject as he is both a physics professor/ lecturer at Harvard University and an experienced sea kayaker. Johns experiences as a sea kayaker have stimulated him to focus some of his academic research on kayak related aspects of the physical world, and he recently published a book on primitive navigation. "The Lost Art of Finding Our Way" This is a workshop you won't want to miss. Johns past courses have broadly covered issues of weather and waves: the approach of warm and cold fronts, how to read cloud formations, wind. , the air circulation around high and low pressure systems, and how to evaluate weather signs. Members have come away from past workshops with a heightened understanding and appreciation of the physical forces that affect us while on the water: This session will help the sea kayaker evaluate and respond to rapidly changing local conditions through observations and decision making. The session will last from 11:30 PM to @ 4:00PM and there there all be ample opportunity for snacks, questions and participation. The REI meeting room is in the right rear of the store. REI opens at 11:00AM on Sundays. Please RSVP in the calendar posting for this session: REI has not-unlimited space and past workshops have been very well attended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhabich Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 There doesn't seem to be a way to RSVP to this event, although it is possible for some other events. Perhaps RSVP has to be enabled when the event is posted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inverseyourself Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Is there a way to videotape John's course and post it under "Educational" for the many who can'y attend? Just a thought, if a selfish thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnHuth Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 If anyone has particular things they'd like to see in the course, please let me know. I'm probably going to mix some aspects of predicting and handling conditions with some aesthetic considerations. Under aesthetic considerations - I've done some work learning wave piloting in the Marshall Islands - variants of this can be done along parts of the New England coastline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prudenceb Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 On February 6, 2016 at 10:17 PM, mhabich said: There doesn't seem to be a way to RSVP to this event, although it is possible for some other events. Perhaps RSVP has to be enabled when the event is posted? Mike, go to Calendar, click on the course, a description willl come up, woth rsvp to the left. I just looked again and it wad there and I had no trouble rsvping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhabich Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Yes, RSVP seems to have been fixed soon after I posted. Either that, or I figured it out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterB Posted February 21, 2016 Author Share Posted February 21, 2016 Please note that this workshop is on Sunday February 28th. (The original posting erroneously read "Saturday the 28th." - Saturday is the 27th- and has been corrected. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnHuth Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Thanks for the update. One item on the topic of waves I'm going to try to cover is interpreting NOAA forecasts. After that, there's what does *not* appear in NOAA forecasts, so I will talk some about observing swells versus wind driven chop, multiple sources of waves, and surf beat. In part, I'm posting mostly so I remember to include these in the workshop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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