Ben Pedersen-Wedlock
On Board Since January 2007
OCSC: Why do you sail?
BP: The ocean and the mountains are the only places where one is still completely responsible for oneself.
OCSC: What do you enjoy about working at OCSC?
BP: I love teaching and seeing people excited to learn.
OCSC: What's your sailing background?
BP: I spent the first five years of my life on a 135' schooner. I have been sailing ever since and left to go cruising after high school for a few years.
OCSC: When you're not sailing, what can we find you doing?
BP: Riding motorcycles, kayaking, climbing, and working on my boat.
OCSC: What are your top five sailing books of all time?
BP: Voyaging on a Small Income by Annie Hill; Around Alone by Slocum; Common Sense of Yacht Design by L. Francis Herroshoff; Of Boats and Men by William Athin; Mody Dick