Instructor
As a youngster, Scott was dragged kicking and screaming to his dad’s boat in New York. Despite his initial resistance, Scott was quickly hooked. Within a few years, he found himself a 14-year-old salty dog teaching boating safety courses to adults and performing emergency tows on the Long Island Sound. Even after his move to the land-locked city of Atlanta, Scott traveled yearly to the Virgin Islands to island-hop with his wife and also, eventually, with his kids.
Scott's passion for sailing kicked into high gear in 2016 when they moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. After joining Modern Sailing in 2017, he quickly obtained a boatload of new ASA certifications. In 2020, he earned his USCG captain’s license and ASA instructor qualifications through classes at MSC.
Since then, Scott and his wife shopped for and purchased a new construction catamaran. Once construction was complete, Scott flew to Cape Town, South Africa, and sailed the boat back to the Caribbean, a trip of almost 6000 nautical miles (roughly 6900 land-based miles). Scott’s crew for the passage consisted of local sailing friends, some of which he met at Modern Sailing. Scott continued his blue water adventures with a relatively modest hop from Grenada to St. Thomas, a trip of about 400 nautical miles. Scott’s extensive preparation for the trip and much of the trip itself is chronicled on his blog: www.wildrumpussailing.blog.
Sailing students enjoy his step-by-step instruction method and, for the most part, suffer through his awful sense of humor.
