Welcome to the Cal Sailing Club! We're a non-profit sailing cooperative located in Berkeley, California, on beautiful San Francisco Bay. CSC provides the community an affordable means of learning about sailing and windsurfing at ALL levels. more >>
New Boards 'n' Boats: Cal Sailing Club has expanded its fleet to serve a growing membership! Come see our new windsurf boards and dinghy sailboats.
Come try out our
- Five Laser Bahia sailboats (trainer, also advanced with gennaker)
- Six JY15 sailboats
- Two P15 sailboats
- Two Hunter 146 sailboats
- Four Laser sailboats
- 27 beginning (Novice level) windsurf boards, 160 to 225 liters in volume
- 21 intermediate (J level) windsurf boards, 125 to 150 liters in volume
- 16 advanced intermediate (J+ level) windsurf boards, 105 to 120 liters in volume
- 19 advanced (Sr level) windsurf boards, 75 to 225 liters in volume (sinkers to formula)
- Nearly 130 windsurf sails, from 3.3 to 9.3 square meters
In addition, we have three working rescue skiffs (including the sketchmobile, which allows us to stay open down to -0.5 tides), and five keelboats, 22.5 to 26 feet long, on J dock in the Marina harbor
General Membership Meeting: Sunday August 17th at 1:00pm, in the Cal Sailing Club House Yard and deck. with refreshments for all members and their guests. This meeting promises fun, food, and frolic./p> Four U.S. Sailing Community Sailing Awards:
- Cal Sailing Club -- 2004 Outstanding Year Round Sailing Program
- Saul Schumsky -- 2004 Outstanding Director of a Year Round Sailing Program
- Isabelle Fortier -- 2004 Outstanding Organizational Support
- Peter Kuhn -- 2007 Outstanding Organizational Support
Garcia and Associates Big thanks to Garcia and Associates (GANDA) for becoming Cal Sailing Club's new corporate sponsor! GANDA is an ecological consulting firm, with headquarters in San Anselmo, that employs at least one Cal Sailing Club member, our beloved Nando. Check out GANDA at www.garciaandassociates.com
Big thanks to Cal Boating: Cal Boating, aka the Department of Boating and Waterways, has funded Cal Sailing Club's safe boating and windsurfing educational programs for the third year in a row. This year's grant includes $15,000 towards new equipment and $1,800 for National Safe Boating Week.
Windsurfing lockers: CSC has 54 windsurfer storage lockers on the rig area behind the club. These are available through associate memberships ($280/yr, 18' long x 18" wide by 30"tall space, some 42" tall spaces for 1.5 x $280/yr). For more information contact the Windsurfing locker chair.
Thanks to Gary Farber for providing these links for those new (and old) members to access the tide pages.
Tides for:
But don't forget to read the fine print on the tide page. Don't trust the charts. A good sailor should be able to determine the tides by smell.
Know the Tide: The Cal-Sailing Club is located on the South Sailing Basin of the Berkeley Marina. The South Sailing Basin is a protected and shallow area, perfect for learning to sail, but is also subject to low tides that prevent launching of our rescue skiff. Always remember to check the tides before heading down to the club.
Joining the Cal Sailing Club is by far the least expensive way to learn to sail on the San Francisco Bay. It is also one of the best ways to learn to sail anywhere. CSC's first priority is to make sailing on the Bay accessible to a large number of people at the lowest possible cost, consistent with safety.
Whether you are interested in becoming a CSC member, or just want to go on a free sail on the Bay, come down to the Club and take advantage of our next Open House. The San Francisco Bay offers some of the best sailing in the world, and the Cal Sailing Club can provide some of the best opportunities to enjoy it.
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Basic Manual for Keel Boat Sailing at CSC (MS Word document) to
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Where did we come from? Read A History of the Cal Sailing Club.
