Sail Channel Islands

This was an incredible and unforgettable experience! Captain Dan was great! He is a very experienced sailor who taught us a lot and shared many interesting stories. He let us take turns steering the boat :) He guided us to some amazing views around Anacapa island and stopped to prepare us a delicious lunch!

I've been wanting to learn how to sail for a year now and I finally got around to it! I'm so grateful that Captain Dan is my sailing instructor, he is amazing! He also allows a second person to come to the lessons and I am bringing different friends with me along the way. We are all so excited to start this new journey and opportunity of sailing The boat we are on is fantastic and Captain Dan is patient, extremely knowledgeable and so much fun!

Excellent experience taking lessons with Captain Dan.
He was thorough, patient, but no nonsense and fully practical. Online scheduling was quick and convenient and simple. His boats are well maintained and a pleasure to be on.
I absolutely recommend Sail Channel Islands as the best of the best for lessons or charter cruising. The islands are one of a kind place and this is the expert you will want to take you there.

I consider myself richly blessed to have found Sail Channel Islands and Captain Dan Ryder's ASA Certified Sailing School. Your typical sailing student, I am not. It's a pleasure to watch a school of 12-year-olds learning to sail their dinghys in the harbor. I'm more than five time their age, too heavy, weak, and sick to learn to sail. But not at Sail Channel Islands. Captain Dan allowed me the time needed to regain lost ground on the health and fitness side of the sailing equation while slowly honing sailing skills that a youngster would have picked up instantly; I know, he trained two of my adult children to be excellent crew members right along with my lessons. Captain Dan has been a fighter pilot, a teacher, grant writer, sailor, and business owner. His unassailable integrity guides every aspect of the business. I'm very happy to have begun my sailing life under his tutelage and look forward to future adventures in the future.