CAROL HASSE
CAROL HASSE has been a sailmaker and owner of Hasse & Company Port Townsend Sails, Inc. since 1978. The sails made by Ms. Hasse’s loft are world renowned. For two decades, the Seven Seas Cruising Association’s membership surveys have acknowledged Port Townsend Sails for building the best offshore cruising sails available anywhere.
Ms. Hasse came to sailmaking from a love of cruising. She has logged over 45,000 offshore miles and has sailed on both mono and multi-hulls and on vessels with traditional and modern rigs. She is active in teaching and lecturing on sailmaking, sail repair, sail inventory, and sail handling. She has an ISPA instructor’s certificate and her USCG 100-ton near coastal masters auxiliary sail license. She has been active in women’s and youth sail training for over 25 years.
MARIANNE “MIMI” GEORGE, PH.D
Dr. Mimi George is an anthropologist, sailor, and writer specialized in voyaging cultures. In the past, she documented voyaging traditions of islanders in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Siberian Yupik Eskimos on the Alaskan and USSR sides of the Bering Straits. Her research voyages have included using ancient polar technology, and the early 19th century European technique of wintering-over in a sailboat frozen in the sea-ice of Antarctica. In her current work (Vaka Taumako Project) she studies Polynesians building vessels and making voyages using ancient technology, materials, tools, and navigation methods. Mimi made 25 inter-island voyages in the Santa Cruz Islands, and one voyage from Duffs through Vanuatu, either under the sailing directions of Te Aliki Kaviea or with him on board. She is currently writing a book “Sailing with Lata,” and has recently completed part 1 of a documentary about her work called “We the Voyagers”.