Spinnaker Sailing San Francisco

Spinnaker Sailing was founded in 1978 by three adventurers in Redwood City. The company quickly grew to several locations. The San Francisco division broke free from the parent company in 1991. San Francisco and Redwood City remain close business allies. Rich Ferrari and Drew Harper still play in a band together…been rocking 40 years now. If you’re interested to see something about the band, here we are. Tuesday Night Ritual.

Spinnaker Sailing offers sailing certification through the ASA (American Sailing Association) as well as offering private charters on its fleet of 22-50 foot yachts.

The ASA certification standard is accepted by charter companies throughout the United States. Recently, Spinnaker Sailing added revamped the curriculum, creating a sailing education program that is much more comprehensive than the competition. We now offer the smallest student to instructor ratio for sailing classes in the USA, 2:1 for Basic Keelboat Sailing. This provides the highest level of individual instruction available in a class setting and this is now part of the regular school schedule. Additionally we have proactively made ASA 105, Coastal Navigation, prerequisite to the ASA 104 class. This makes complete sense given that SF Bay is certainly one of, if not THE most challenging inland bodies of water to sail.

Spinnaker Sailing’s subsidiary, Rendezvous Charters, offers corporate and private parties on U.S. Coast Guard Certified vessels of 50-90 feet in size. The two companies have been working together for over 30 years, offering the best in sailing entertainment and education to people from around the world.