Bryan Myers
On Board Since December 2001
OCSC: Why do you sail?
BM: Sailing speaks to my adventurous self-reliant nature. Out on the ocean you will see and experience things that very few humans alive ever will. On a boat you and your crew are your own society with no one looking over your shoulder to make sure you behave like a good little citizen. In short, sailing is really living.
OCSC: What do you enjoy about working at OCSC?
BM: "I get to show people who are normally cooped up inside their offices another view of the world and the tools to experience it safely. When my students go home grinning I know that their home-life just got a lot healthier!
OCSC: What's your sailing background?
BM: I am partially self taught and partially taught by my father starting around age ten. I immediately got into racing small keelboats and from there to high performance dinghies. I traveled all over the country as a member of the St Francis and Santa Cruz YC junior racing teams. I've done a lot of intensive training in Santa Cruz, on the coast between San Francisco and Santa Cruz, and in SF Bay. My family also took yearly crusing trips out to the Channel Islands which got me going with that side of sailing. Now I'm more interested in voyaging and cruising than racing. I've done several charter vacations to different areas of the world- the BVIs, Belize, Tonga and also sailed to Hawaii from San Diego in 2004.
OCSC: When you're not sailing, what can we find you doing?
BM: Running my Unique Homes & Land real estate in Santa Cruz, swing dancing, sitting on Ke'e or Anini beaches on Kauai!
OCSC: What are your top five sailing books of all time?
BM: Dave Perry's Winning In One Design; Julian Stockwin's Thomas Kydd adventures; Gavin Menzie's 1421: The Year The Chinese Discovered America.