Bill Kinney
On Board Since July 2007
OCSC: Why do you sail?
BK: It's an activity you can learn enough to have fun in a week, but spend a lifetime learning how to be really good.
OCSC: What do you enjoy about working at OCSC?
BK: Where else could I get paid to sail, and have contact with such fantastic people? Students and staff here are the greatest!
OCSC: What's your sailing background?
BK: Started on small boats about 16 years ago. When I moved to California in 1998 I bought a Northstar 40 foot center-cockpit ketch to sail and live on, and I am still living the perfect life for me! I have sail regularly on the bay, and up and down the California Coast.
OCSC: When you're not sailing, what can we find you doing?
BK: Fixing my boat, writing, or working my photgraphy business.
OCSC: What are your top five sailing books of all time?
BK: Only 5? If you own a boat you have to have at least one of Nigel Calder's books on board to help you fix things.
"Sail and Rig Tuning" by Ivar Dedekam is the best and simplest guide to how to get a sialboat moving well.
"Landfalls of Paradise", the standard guide to the harbors of the South Pacific.
"Bowditch" the standard text book for navigation. What can I say? I am a Nautical Nerd!
"The Rigger's Apprentice" by Brion Toss. Everythiong you need to know to keep your mast point up at the sky.