Dave Franzel

Dave Franzel

A veteran coach and champion racer, Dave Franzel founded the Boston Sailing Center in 1977.  Through coaching, clinics and seminars, he has helped thousands of people become better sailors and racers.

Chris Bedford

Chris Bedford

Chris Bedford is founder of Sailing Weather Services and creator (with Peter Isler)of the online weather school Marine Weather University (MWU). For MWU Chris developed a college-level curriculum to maximize the student’s comprehension of marine weather. The first online weather school for boaters – MWU provides cutting edge marine weather education taught by sailors for sailors.

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Stan Schreyer

Stan Schreyer

Stan began sailing at the age of four at the Lavallette Yacht Club on New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay. His first races were with his older sister in a small pram. As a youth sailor, he raced in many different dinghy classes. Stan graduated from Boston University in 1999 where he was an All-American and Collegiate National Champion. He worked for a sailboat manufacturer Vanguard for two years and has been employed as a professional Sailor and Sailing coach since 2001. He has experience in many high performance classes including the Tornado, Marstrom 32, Extreme 40, and C-Class Catamaran. He has won nine major championships. His offshore accomplishments include 1st in class on the Chicago-Mackinaw Race, overall winner of the Stamford-Vineyard Race, and he was with the IMOCA 60 team Estrella Damm when they set the Trans-Atlantic record from New York to Barcelona. He also coached the Boston University Sailing team for 6 years, where five of his sailors earned All-American Honors. Stan currently works for North Sails Northeast, based in Salem, MA.

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Zeke Horowitz

Zeke Horowitz

Zeke‘s sailing resume includes two World Championships titles –  J/22 and Viper Classes. He also holds nine North American / National championship titles in various classes and disciplines.  He is currently active in one-design racing in J70’s, J24’s, J111’s, J22’s, J80’s, Flying Scots, and Vipers as well as the National Team Racing Circuit.

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Kevin Denney

Kevin Denney

Kevin Denney is a graduate of Michigan State University and the IIT, Institute of Design where he is a faculty member teaching product and service design.  

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