Dr. Debbi Juster learned to sail as a teen at Mother’s Beach in Marina del Rey. She still enjoys day sailing, racing and cruising. Using her medical background as a physician, specializing in internal medicine, she has assisted multiple times when sailors have become sick or injured while underway. Dr Juster has had a long and distinguished career including participating on many medical missions abroad.

Dr. Juster will focus on prevention of medical problems, early recognition and what to do when there is a medical emergency.

John Jourdane has sailed over 430,000 documented miles including 66 West Coast / Hawaii or Tahiti crossings, 23 Transpac races with returns: six Pacific Cups with returns and three Vic-Maui Races with returns and a dozen Atlantic crossings.

With three circumnavigations and every major yacht race in the world in 1993 Yachting Magazine identified John as the World’s Best Racing Navigator. He has shared his vast knowledge base with Safety at Sea participants for three decades.

Karen Prioleau is the Professional Mariner Program Coordinator and a faculty member for the Orange Coast College in Newport Beach California.

Karen has extensive offshore experience including multiple Pacific crossings, Panama Canal, South Pacific and the Caribbean. Her longest passage was Newport Beach to Easter Island. Karen expires to make one offshore passage each year to get herself out of the classroom and back on the water. 

Dave Robertson has over 50 years experience as a sailboat rigger/outfitter in Marina Del Rey. The Southern Californian who has an extensive sailing pedigree has been involved in sailing safety for three decades. 

Dave has sailed worldwide — the Atlantic, South Pacific, competing in major international ocean racing as well as enjoying cruising. Dave says humbly about his vast experience, “I don’t know everything, but I know enough people to find out just about anything.”

Leslie Washburn, raised sailing the Great Lakes, is a USCG licensed captain with a 50GTS MMC. She has accrued over 20,000 bluewater miles through cruising, chartering, and deliveries, crossing both the Atlantic from west to east and the Pacific. As a competitive sailor, she has achieved podium finishes in both buoy and distance races, including the overall Chicago NOOD Championship, Verve Cup, Mackinac Cup, and N2E. With participation in over 27 Chicago to Mac regattas, she has also secured her membership in the Old Goat Society.

Her resume, however, doesn’t capture her experiences of navigating Force 10 conditions in the Atlantic with an injured crew or surviving a wreck on a South Pacific reef. With her extensive ocean experiences, Leslie is set to share tales, discuss preparations for unforeseen events and offer insights. 

LTJG Alexander Kang and OS2 Ryan Tedin are active duty Coastguardsmen from Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach Command Center.