Ballard Elks Paddling Club November Meeting: Author David Burch on marine weather & navigation
Schedule
Tue, 18 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
6411 Seaview Ave NW, 98107 | Seattle, WA
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Join us for our paddling club meeting at 7pm, speaker at 7:30. David will talk about his book: Modern Marine Weather (4th ed.)About the speaker:
David Burch is the director of Starpath School of Navigation, a school that provides online courses and training for marine navigation, weather, and radar. He has more than 70,000 miles of ocean experience ranging from the Arctic ice edge to Tahiti and Australia in the Pacific and from New York to Panama in the Atlantic. He has sailed across the Pacific to Hawaii ten times, three times winning the Victoria to Maui yacht race, and in 1984 setting the elapsed time record for that passage for vessels under 38 feet long (the record lasted sixteen years, but was superseded in the 2000 race).
In 1968, David became a Fulbright scholar for nuclear physics at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany. In 1971, he earned a Ph.D in Physics from the University of Texas and following graduation, he went on to work as a Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington for the next 8 years.
In 2011, he was awarded Fellow grade in the Institute of Navigation as well as Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation in London.
He is the author of fifteen books on marine navigation and his magazine articles have appeared in Cruising World, Ocean Navigator, Sailing, and Sea Kayaker. His column "Burch at the Helm" appeared in BlueWater Sailing magazine from 2009 to 2015.
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