Sailing Education Adventures

Congrats to Karri Ving!

Skippered by Sandor, the Official SEA Santana Check Out Team reviewed and tested member Karri Ving's boating and safety skills on the water. She passed with flying colors and is now a bona fide SEA Santana Skipper. Karri is one our star volunteers among other titles, she was Director of SEA from 2006-2007.

They had a wonderful day out on the water, with light breezes and warm sunshine. According to Sandor, she did great all day as skipper, from the dock talk with the crew in the morning, to cleaning Shockwave and putting her away properly.  

Stephen DuPraw who recently made a comeback and Thad Glass also joined as crew also plan to be tested as SEA Skippers. Sandor said they were a great crew and  worked as a team. Thad especially seemed very comfortable working the boat, but both said they wanted to do more SEA keelboat and mentor sails before trying their hand at skipper check-out, which has high standards. 

In addition to a skipper check-out, it was also a familiarization exercise for Karri as she hadn't previously sailed the Santanas.  She has extensive sailing experience on larger keelboats (~30') and has been teaching in the smaller Catalinas many years.