William Le - 2021 Top Charterer | Modern Sailing

William Le - 2021 Top Charterer

Among Modern Sailing club members, William Le was our most frequent charterer of 2021. It's obvious from his course and charter history that he's fallen in love with sailing. You might be surprised to learn that William began sailing only last September 2020. He writes:

"I'm fortunate enough to have a view of the bay from my house. Combined with the COVID shelter-in-place, I really noticed all the sailboats and yearned to be free like all the people down there. It also seemed like a safe-ish activity. Anyway, I signed up for lessons at MSC and was fortunate enough to get Stan Lander as my instructor. My partner and I fell in love with it." 

William says he will never forget that moment when Stan turned the engine off and gave the ASA 101 students a heads-up that the boat would lean. "We did NOT know it was going to do that, but loved it!"

Partner Krysta Yang has been on this entire journey (including every charter) with William. "She's actually at the helm more often than me," he tells us. 

Seasickness has been the biggest obstacle to William's enjoyment of sailing, but he has taken some pride in learning to "feel" and move with the boat. While progressing through ASA 103 and 104, he chartered often to keep the learning going. 

Of his experience at Modern Sailing, William writes, "I really appreciated how I learned things the 'proper' way even though it scared the living daylights out of me when we were learning about it. I didn't really appreciate it until after our first charter and things weren't as 'bad' as what MSC prepared us to do."

After gaining a lot of valuable experience and confidence sailing around San Francisco Bay, bigger dreams are beginning to form in William's mind. In the future, he would like to do a major ocean crossing and "circumnavigation isn't off the table, either!"

As one of our 2021 Three Flag Commodores, William receives a Modern Sailing logo jacket. As the indispensible partner to our 2021 Top Charterer, Krysta will receive a logo jacket from us. Thank you, William and Krysta, for sailing with us! We look forward to following your continued sailing adventures.

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  • Danny Collins

    The office staff was very accommodating in meeting my availability.

  • Sara Jane G.

    I've taken two classes at MSS&C and was very happy with the program. This is also a great club with lots of opportunities for camaraderie and practice on the water. The boats in the fleet are fantastic and kept in tip-top shape. I highly recommend for all sailors and would-be sailors!

  • Mike, Santa Rosa, California

    All of the courses and my instructors (JT and Stan) were extremely professional and full of knowledge and experience. I found I was able to learn from their experiences beyond the scope of the courses, and look forward to future opportunities to do so. I would highly recommend Modern Sailing to anyone.

  • Warren Leiden, Member

    I try to get out on the water every week: out the Gate, around Angel, up Raccoon - I love it all. After 18 years as a member of OCSC in Berkeley, I learned to sail the bigger boats at Modern by taking ASA 103 and 104. My ASA 104 instructor Dave Russell was terrific. Also, Captain Bill Moreland has been very generous in giving informal advice whenever I’ve asked him. Thanks to Bill, I no longer have any anxiety about docking!

  • Trudy Flores

    Captain Jeff Cathers is really cool. I had such a great time on the Farallones Day Trip. It was actually my very best day of 2020. Thank you so much for coordinating the trip.

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