"Last year, after 28 years of running what is now one of the largest sailing schools in the U.S., Richard Jepsen and Anthony Sandberg decided they needed help..." Learn More.
"Mr. Sandberg says he believes his marriage might have survived had he and his former wife done the kind of intensive counseling that he and Mr. Jepsen have done with Mr. Ledgerwood." Learn More.
California Club Keeps Sailors Coming Back for More (pdf) Cruising World November 2007 "Anthony Sandberg founded the Olympic Circle Sailing Club in Berkeley, California, in 1979 to make sailing available and affordable for anyone with the desire to learn and participate." Learn More.
"...Mr. Sandberg and Mr. Jepsen had been seeing a business consultant for years and going through a process that sounded quite a lot like couples therapy." Learn More.
"...The boat's moving through the water. It's charging. I'm alive, and all those fetters --I've got HR things and insurance investments, all sorts of stuff-- melt away and I'm just a young guy, having a great time..." Learn More.
'...and in 1979 he founded OCSC (originally knows as the Olympic Circle Sailing Club), which today is one of the largest sailing schools in the Bay Area.'Learn More.
OCSC voted one of the Bay Area's best places to work for the third year in a row! Learn More.
Wind Power(pdf) The Josh Kornbluth Show April 22, 2007
'Thanks to Anthony Sandberg’s generosity, my interest in wind power had spread from the land to encompass the waves as well.' - The Josh Kornbluth Show Blog (html)
'We're bucking the trend. In an industry where team building is shrinking, we're actually growing. What started out as me and a boat in 1979 has become 80 employees and 50 yachts.'
'When I was 30, I thought I could re-invent sailing, because it's too good to be the exclusive domain of the rich.'
Best of the Bay 2006 City Sports Magazine December 2006
'OCSC, with its convivial vibe, regular barbeques and large fleet, wins our Best (Sailing School) of the Bay for a second year.'
At Play on the Bay SF Chronicle DateBook September 17, 2006 By Delfin Vigil
"It's like a freeway of wind from west to east so that at the end of the day you get blown through the Golden Gate into the Bay and right back to OCSC."
"OCSC is the best big boat sailing school in the country" states Matt Gingo, director of small boat school, Cal Adventures. OCSC Founder, Anthony Sandberg puts it more modestly....
Les raies manta mobilisent La Dépêche, Bora Bora August 2006 By Françoise Buil
Translated: "The American sailing school, "OCSC Sailing" organizes cruising trips to different desinations. For the second time, they decided to visit French Polynesia... The distinctive feature of this organization is that they've donated 5% of their charter costs to a group dedicated to the protection of Mantas (The Manta Network), which Manta Polynesia was chosen to be part of. OCSC will hand over a donation of $3600 (U.S.). "
Cycladian Rhythm Outside Traveler Spring 2006 By Rolf Potts
"The more time I spend aboard Assos, the more I appreciate the way sailing connects me to the rhythms of the weather and water. Away from land, life is less of an abstraction and the sea gradually reveals itself as an intricate and powerful wilderness."
Berkeley Sailing School Uses Streaming to Reel in Students Business Week/Small Biz Fall 2005
"Anthony Sandberg figured that if a single picture is worth a thousand words, streaming video could be valuable indeed. Especially for a sailing school trying to impress clients with the joy of open water and salt air."
Clear Sailing for East Bay School Contra Costa Times August 4, 2005 By Ann Tatko-Peterson, Times Staff Writer
"The sailboat measures almost 35 feet long. It costs about a quarter million dollars. And on this cool August day, it tilts at a seemingly precarious 45-degree angle, the starboard hull practically submerged in the water, the boat rocketing through every wave that stands in its path. The scene might look and feel like a maelstrom, if not for Anthony Sandberg . . ."
Berkeley Sailing School Tackles the Waves Berkeley Daily Planet July 29, 2005 By Ellen Galvin
"Can a sailing school in Berkeley change the world? Anthony Sandberg, 56, the Founder and President of OCSC Sailing, believes that the answer is an emphatic 'Yes!' . . . "
Sailor Sandberg is a Philanthropic Tidal Wave Good Business Columnist July 29, 2005 By David Goll
"Talking with Anthony Sandberg, one feels the late John Denver's expansive musical tribute to life on the sea, "Aye, Calypso" should be playing in the background. It's not just that Sandberg's business at the Berkeley Marina is the Bay Area's largest sailing school and club. Sandberg launched the Olympic Circle Sailing Club Inc. -- better known as OCSC -- in 1979. His love for his work, zest for life and San Francisco Bay-sized personality is readily apparent. As is his concern for less-fortunate people and health of the world's environment . "
Sailing Toward Better Business Teams Special to the East Bay Business Times July 22, 2005 By Rich Jepsen
"A frequent criticism of corporate team-building programs is that there is too much talk and not enough action. Participants need challenging activities that explore and extend their capabilities, both as individuals and as members of a team. One of the best ways to do that is on-board a high performance racing yacht . . . "
"It is a Sunday morning in May, about 7:30. It's raining heavily, and the wind is whipping up waves, whitecaps and spray on the Bay. Normally I would be out for a bike ride or a hike on a Sunday, but not in this weather. Instead, I am heading to the Marina to continue my sailing lessons . . . "
A Summer Fave Gets Saucy and Strategic Inc. Magazine July 2005 By Patrick J. Sauer
"The Olympic Circle Sailing Club in Berkeley, Calif., does almost no formal advertising or marketing. Instead, president Anthony Sandberg prefers spending $50,000 every year on some 30 barbecue parties that are open to the public. The chili, clam chowder, chicken, and veggie burgers have been a part of that approach since the club's inception 26 years ago, when the "office" was a metal dockside box built next to the town dump. . . . "
OCSC on the Cover of Latitude 38! Latitude 38 June 2005
Partners make sailing club work Sunday, June 5, 2005 By Kristin Bender, Oakland Tribune
"For more than two decades, Anthony Sandberg and Rich Jepsen have run a Berkeley sailing school that started with one boat, a single telephone and a dream to bring the sport to ordinary enthusiasts, not just the spoiled elite. It's not surprising that the two have made teaching others to sail their life's work. Both Sandberg, 56, of Berkeley and Jepsen, 49, of Alameda have been sailing since early childhood. Both love not only the heritage, history and traditions of sailing, but also the connection that sailing has with the Earth's natural elements — wind, water and sun . . . "
Olympic Circle is thinking Green Cruising World September 2003 By Dieter Loibner
"Whenever members of the Olympic Circle Sailing Club (OCSC) hit the road, they have multiple agendas.... Wherever they go, OCSC sailors support environmental causes."
73 OCSC Sailors Have Fun ‘Doing Good’ The Log Wednesday, March 12, 2003 By Dieter Loibner
"The largest group ever of OCSC sailors assembled at The Moorings' base in Placencia, Belize, on Feb. 11 for a flotilla charter in the southern Cayes along the Barrier Reef. Having fun by doing good was the motto of 73 sailors associated with Berkeley's Olympic Circle Sailing Club who traveled to the small seaside town Placencia in Southern Belize on Feb. 10 for their winter fix of sailing, diving, fishing, and snorkeling. "
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