Cliff Fitzgerald

Instructor

Cliff grew up in a family that sailed on Long Island Sound.  At age eight he had his start at skippering and racing in a summer youth sailing program.  Dinghies led to small centerboard sloops which led to keelboats of all types ranging from twenty-two to fifty feet.  By the time he was in college he was crewing on coastal passages from New York to Nova Scotia and also teaching in the same summer program he had come up in. His family continued sailing throughout, including bareboat chartering in the BVIs.

Cliff joined the OCSC instructor team in 2015 and except for the covid interval has been teaching ever since. He is delighted to be back in Berkeley working with the rest of the Inspire Sailing team to continue the excellence in teaching that our unique location requires.