Tyler Cobbett

Instructor

Captain Tyler loves time on the water on any kind of craft from sail to power, canoes to kayaks. A member of Modern Sailing since 2009, Tyler has chartered most of the yachts in the Gold and Platinum fleets in Sausalito. Favorite cruises include Greece’s Ionian Islands, Canada’s North Channel, a delivery from Newport, Rhode Island to Toronto via the Erie and Oswego canals, and trips to Santa Cruz, Monterey, and Carmel.

In 2024 he sailed as First Mate on an Oyster 655 from Bermuda to Newport, RI. The crew of four made the 660 nautical mile passage in 81 hours, reaching a distance of over 300 nautical miles from land.

Tyler raced Hobie 20s, 18s, and 16s throughout California and the Great Lakes for 20 years before concentrating on keelboats.

In March 2023, his sailing naturally evolved to teaching for Modern Sailing in both Sausalito and Berkeley. He finds students benefit from learning boathandling and rigging on sportboats, then transitioning to cruising yachts. With his background on multihulls, Tyler especially loves teaching cruising catamaran courses.

When he's not on the water, Tyler is an avid hiker, skier, and musician.

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Andrew Goble, San Francisco

It has been wonderful sailing with MSC over the years. Please extend my thanks to the owners, management, and staff for unrequited professionalism and high standards in a charter fleet. I have sailed with several in my years and none nearly hold a candle to the quality of business and staff at Modern Sailing.
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.
John Kratochvil, Oregon

I would like to compliment Stan Lander for his coaching, counseling and teaching Heavy Weather Offshore Sailing. Stan was very accommodating to all of the student's interests and shared his many years of insight on handling the boat in heavy seas. I would certainly recommend Stan and this course to sheltered waters sailors. My confidence in handling a boat of this size was certainly enhanced by the experience.
Sara Jane G.

I've taken two classes at MSS&C and was very happy with the program. This is also a great club with lots of opportunities for camaraderie and practice on the water. The boats in the fleet are fantastic and kept in tip-top shape. I highly recommend for all sailors and would-be sailors!
John Kipping

The meeting room was quite adequate and the location most convenient, but the course outline and instruction were outstanding. Modern Sailing is fortunate to have such a well organized instructor in Mr. Stan Lander who teaches very well from a rich professional background. Mr. Lander was generous with his time and patiently in helping students who needed more attention or time in understanding various aspects of the curriculum.

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Sausalito Location
2310 Marinship Way, Sausalito
(415) 331-8250
(800) 995-1668

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