| Back | retour |

Nautical Voyages: Cruising, Yachting and Small-boating Through the Ages

Ottawa, Ontario

18-21 May 2011

Wednesday, 18 May

17:30-21:00. Registration / Informal Meet & Greet: The Mayflower Pub ( 247 Elgin Street / Cooper St entrance)

Day 1: Thursday, 19 May

08:00-08:45. Registration

08:45-09:00. President's Welcome

09:00-12:00. Session 1:

Chair: Alec Douglas

Peter Rindlisbacher, “The Yacht Atalanta: Canadian Challenge for the America's Cup”

09:45-10:15. Coffee in-progress

Paul Adamthwaite, “How Rating Rules Influenced Ocean Racing Yacht Hull Forms, 1866-1936”

David Gray, “ The Re-incarnation of Verve I – in Miniature”

12:00-13:00. Lunch

13:00-16:00. Session 2:

Chair: Carl Christie

Karl Gagnon, “ ‘ Pleasure Boats’ in the Canadian Navy: Acquisition of and Disposal as Yachts ”

Terry Leversedge, “Motor Torpedo Boats – A Common Heritage in both the RCN & RCAF”

Ian & Scott Macmillan [screening], Within Sight of Shore: the sinking of HMCS Esquimalt

Dinner on your own

Day 2: Friday, 20 May

08:30-12:00. Session 3:

Chair: John G. Armstrong

Rob Fisher, “ ‘The Honour & the Profit’: The Steamboat Letters of the Torrance family, 1831-1848”

Owen Cooke, “Fred Denison, Garnet Wolseley and Two Boat Expeditions - 1870 and 1884-85”

09:45-10:15. Coffee in-progress

Roger Sarty, “The Education of a Naval Historian: How D.M. Schurman came to write The Education of a Navy”

Chris Madsen & Corbin Williamson, “British Warship Repairs in North America during the Second World War”

12:00-13:00. Lunch

13:00-16:00. Session 4:

Chair: Jim Pritchard

David Gray, “Modelling HMS Kelly”

Tony Thatcher, “ Capturing Canada’s Naval Technical History”

Chris Willmes, “Satellite Communications on the High Seas: A Brief Introduction and History”

Afternoon: Executive Council Meeting

18:30 for 19:00. Banquet

( Johnny Farina’s Restaurant / 216 Elgin St )

Day 3: Saturday, 21 May

09:00-10:00. Session 5:

Chair: Isabel Campbell

Alan Ruffman, “Vessels as mobile seismometers in the pre-instrumental era of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries”

09:45-10:15. Coffee in-progress

Sam McLean, “To Put the Sea in the Soul of the Sailor: Naval Attitudes towards Sail Training”

11:00-12:30. Annual General Meeting

12:30-13:30. Lunch

Copyright © 2011, CNRS / SCRN.