Ken Passeri | Modern Sailing

Ken Passeri

Instructor

Ken Passeri’s love of sailing began as a boy in the 60s sailing the family Sunfish in Foster City and the South Bay. He began teaching sailing in Sausalito in the late 70’s and early 80’s. In those years he became an expert San Francisco Bay windsurfer.  

Since then, Ken has spent most of his sailing time in the Bay and Delta and in Southern California waters out to Catalina Island. He has chartered in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. Ken has a completed a few ocean passages, both to Hawaii and to Mexico spending time in the Sea of Cortes. Since 2019, after obtaining his Coast Guard license, Ken has been teaching sailing at all levels from basic keel boat through coastal passage making in monohulls and catamarans, in around the San Francisco Bay with Club Nautique.  

He has a special interest in, and has taught, celestial navigation. Ken’s current boat is a Catalina 36 MK II and he enjoys cruising local Bay and Coastal waters.

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  • 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.

  • Steve Hood, Basic Coastal Cruising

    I would definitely recommend Modern Sailing to anyone who is interested in learning to sail the right way.

  • Emma & George Stubbs, Sausalito

    We just took our ASA 106 at a school in Rhode Island as we prepare for 6 months of cruising in the Caribbean. The class was great, but more than anything it made us really appreciate the quality of teaching and rigor at Modern Sailing. Even though we were the newest to sailing, the group seemed to think that we had the best fundamentals. We felt very well prepared and we see why Modern Sailing has the reputation it does.

  • Trudy Flores

    Captain Jeff Cathers is really cool. I had such a great time on the Farallones Day Trip. It was actually my very best day of 2020. Thank you so much for coordinating the trip.

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