COA Coffee & Conversation Series: From Ocean Survival to Seasteading

A seamanship seminar, “From Ocean Survival to Seasteading,”featuring sailor, author, naval architect, and inventor Steven Callahan and COA Director of Marine Operations Toby Stephenson ’98.

The free event takes place in person and online! Registration is required.

Callahan is widely known for his 1986 New York Times best-seller Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea. Steven is a self-proclaimed jack of all trades in the boating industry: he designs, builds, and sails craft, has authored hundreds of articles in the marine field, consults for film and television, and has delivered presentations across the world. He often works and sails with his wife and best mate, Kathy Massimini ’82, a nurse, author, and editor.

Stephenson began working at COA in 2011 to oversee the build and launch of MV Osprey. Toby has dedicated his career to marine mammal studies, climate change impacts, and aiding in student research.

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• This month, 28th July, 05:00 pm, The 2025 COA Summer Institute: Path Breaking in Bar Harbor
• Next month, 2nd August, 08:00 am, Poultry Processing Workshop at Peggy Rockefeller Farm in Bar Harbor

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