Membership and Chartering

At Modern Sailing, we strive to provide an active, supportive, and relaxing social environment for our members to further their sailing education and experience. We bring people with common interests and goals together, helping to create lasting sailing friendships.

We offer the widest variety of boats and sailing opportunities available in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our professionally maintained fleets in Sausalito and Berkeley consist of monohull sportboats, cruising boats, and luxury catamarans. Club Sails, Local Expeditions, Global Destinations flotillas, Sailing Courses, Clinics, and Racing Programs in both Sausalito and Berkeley provide you with endless opportunities to learn, practice, and simply have fun sailing.

Learn more about the many great benefits of membership with Modern Sailing and find a link to sign up online.

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Jessica Zittere, Member

The Full Moon Sail with Skipper Bob Gutsgell was Ah-Mayzing!! The group dynamic was lovely and the views spectacular. I can't say enough good things about the experience. Thanks so much for the wonderful Club Sails, they are really great.
John Clark

Every aspect of Modern Sailing - training, syllabus, course materials, quality of the boats, quality of the instructors, and the very friendly and helpful staff - exceeded my expectations. Modern Sailing has a first class sailing program in an environment with challenging winds and currents. I look forward to coming back to charter a boat and certainly plan to continue my sailing training.
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.
John Kratochvil, Oregon

I would like to compliment Stan Lander for his coaching, counseling and teaching Heavy Weather Offshore Sailing. Stan was very accommodating to all of the student's interests and shared his many years of insight on handling the boat in heavy seas. I would certainly recommend Stan and this course to sheltered waters sailors. My confidence in handling a boat of this size was certainly enhanced by the experience.
Alisa Driscoll, Dual Site Member

Here are some snaps of Our Saturday, August 20, 2022 Modern Sailing Expedition with Captain Robert Bivin, who was outstanding. Please convey photos and thanks to him. He is an outstanding individual, leader and sailing instructor. His knowledge and experience made us all feel safe and our Farallones Day Trip educational and just amazing.