OCSC Sailing San Francisco Bay

Reviewers Male / Female Recommend Yes / No Number of Reviews Classes & Instruction School Facilities Boats & Courses Cost Total Average Rating
2 / 2 3 / 1 4 8.50 8.75 9.00 7.00 8.31

Date Submitted: May 27, 2008
Sailing School: OCSC Sailing San Francisco Bay
Location: CA - Berkeley, United States
Classes & Instruction: 10 out of 10
School Facilities: 10 out of 10
Boats & Courses: 10 out of 10
Cost: 9 out of 10
Recommend: Yes
Review: The obsolute best on San Fran Bay
If you want to learn to sail with the ability to sail anywhere in the world then this is the school for you. OCSC has a high standard for its instructors which ensure that every student completes each course successfully. After I completed their course work up to and including coastal navigation. My wife and I spent a year sailing our own boat from SF bay to Ecuador, South America. We always seemed to know how to approach each situation and never really had any serious problems. OCSC was the start of our dreams.
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Submitted by: Ken Friedkin
51 year-old   ::   Male Reviewer   ::   Reno, CA

Date Submitted: April 22, 2007
Sailing School: OCSC Sailing San Francisco Bay
Location: CA - Berkeley, United States
Classes & Instruction: 10 out of 10
School Facilities: 10 out of 10
Boats & Courses: 10 out of 10
Cost: 10 out of 10
Recommend: Yes
Review: Incredible instruction...worth every penny!
If you learn at OCSC, you learn to sail with confidence. I had prior experience coming into their program but with the strong San Francisco Bay winds and their high standards, it made sense for me to re-learn a few things. They have the best student to instructor ratio with only three students and one instructor. Their location is right in the middle of they Bay so you also get the SF Bay experience to the fullest. I'm having so much fun and plan to go all the way through BBC with OCSC. They're the best.
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Submitted by: Maggie
37 year-old   ::   Female Reviewer   ::   Oakland, CA

Date Submitted: April 10, 2007
Sailing School: OCSC Sailing San Francisco Bay
Location: CA - Berkeley, United States
Classes & Instruction: 10 out of 10
School Facilities: 10 out of 10
Boats & Courses: 9 out of 10
Cost: 5 out of 10
Recommend: Yes
Review: Graduate School
These people are serious -- about safety and about skill. I had ASA certs and 2 years of racing experience, and was slightly insulted that they encouraged me to start over in Basic Cruising. Now I have their USSA Bareboat and Coastal Certification and I -know- I can sail any boat, anywhere. One instructor wasn't a match, but then they have so many great ones, they just moved me to someone who fit me better.
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Submitted by: Heidi R
42 year-old   ::   Female Reviewer   ::   Denver, Co

Date Submitted: March 26, 2007
Sailing School: OCSC Sailing San Francisco Bay
Location: CA - Berkeley, United States
Classes & Instruction: 4 out of 10
School Facilities: 5 out of 10
Boats & Courses: 7 out of 10
Cost: 4 out of 10
Recommend: No
Review: Some of these instructors are really irritating.
I've been sailing since I was twelve. I found one of the instructors treated students like navy plebes. Other instructors wanted me to do maneuvers to a degree of perfection that they could not demonstrate or accomplish. Obsessive-compulsive. My brother who successfully raced for years had instructors trying to belittle him. There are some good instructors; but find a club that treats you with respect.
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Submitted by: Paul F
59 year-old   ::   Male Reviewer   ::   Orinda, CA

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