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From Dump to Destination (pdf)
Cruising World
December 2009
by Patrick Galvin
"It's often said that sailors are dreamers, men and women who see opportunities where others see only roadblocks. Thirty years ago, mounds of trash didn't stop Anthony Sandberg, now 60, from envisioning a world-class sailing destination on what was then the municipal dump of the city of Berkeley, California..." Read More (pdf).
Sail Around SF Bay for $40.
View from the Bay – KGO-TV (ABC)
August 10, 2009
with Leigh Glaser
Responding to Social Causes Boosts Sails (pdf)
Smart Money's Small Business Site
July 6, 2009
by Diana Ransom
"We’re using social networking and marketing tools to attach our brand to social and environmentally-conscious causes. For example, we hold social and recreational gatherings every week, and we host monthly “salons” where people get together to engage in group discussions..." Read More (pdf).
The Skipper (pdf)
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
July/August 2009
by Sarah Tuff
"On San Francisco Bay winds regularly blow 25 knots and swirling tides create a chop that can turn even high-tech mega-yachts into floundering bathtub boats. This 400-square-mile inland sea has been called the Mount Everest of sailing - which makes it the perfect place for Anthony Sandberg to operate a sailing school..." Read More (pdf).
Navigating a Sailing Lesson
Los Angeles Times | Travel | Outdoors & Adventure
May 17, 2009
by Hugo Martin
"The consistent winds make San Francisco Bay one of the best places in the country to learn to sail, Sandberg said. But, as anybody who has ever been on a boat in the bay knows, the winds can be brutal, providing a challenge for aspiring sailors...." Read More.
Camino Salkantay - The "Other" Inca Trail (pdf)
LAN Peru In-Flight Magazine
January 2009
by Ellen Galvin
"I have come to Peru to reach the sacred site of Machu Picchu via the footpaths that the Inca traversed more than 500 years ago..." Read More.
This is Berkeley? (pdf)
Via | AAA Traveler's Companion
Sept + Oct 2008
"On a recent summer evening with the sun hanging low over the Golden Gate Bridge, Anthony stepped aboard a 36-foot yacht and eased it into San Francisco Bay. Salt spray licked the bow and a cool breeze puffed across the water..." Read More.
Travel with Rick Steves – Episode #152 (Audio)
National Public Radio (NPR)
October 11, 2008
Episode #152 aired with OCSC Founder & President Anthony Sandberg discussing adventure travel in Antarctica. The 18-1/2-minute interview starts at 33:15 into the show (make sure to listen until the end of the show to hear whale sounds and Anthony’s joke).
Lessons: Goodbye Bob, and Hello to a World of Sailing (pdf)
Cruising World
October 2008
by Ellen Galvin
"Someone yelled "Man overboard!", and I realized that Bob had fallen into the churning gray waters of San Francisco Bay--again. For a second, I considered leaving him behind, as he'd been nothing but trouble since we met..." Read More.
Travel with Rick Steves – Episode #142 (Audio)
National Public Radio (NPR)
July 19, 2008
Episode #142 aired with OCSC Founder & President Anthony Sandberg's discussion of the Eastern Mediterranean (following an interview with author Salman Rushdie). The 18-minute interview starts at 33:15 into the show.
Best Way to See the Entire East Bay (pdf)
East Bay Express
July 2008
"From his office in the Berkeley Marina, Anthony Sandberg looks out over the San Francisco Bay and smiles. When he started the Olympic Circle Sailing Club in 1979 with a phone and a borrowed boat, his goal was to share the art, science, joy, and responsibility of sailing with anyone who wanted to learn..." Read More.
Best Places To Work (pdf)
Outside Magazine
May 2008
"Top ten 'Best Places to Work' in the 50-249 employee category. OCSC wants every employee to sail, so job training includes multiple slots in the school's classes..." Read More.
Best Places to Work in the Bay Area (pdf)
East Bay Business Times
May 2, 2008
"OCSC voted one of the 20 best places to work in the Bay Area with 50-100 employees." Read More.
Small Business News Section (pdf)
San Francisco Business Times
April 25, 2008
"Last year, the company also formed OCSC Adventures, where their clients sign up for treks to other corners of the world. The first was to the Andes..." Read More.
Travel with Rick Steves - Episode #131 (Audio)
National Public Radio (NPR)
April 19, 2008
Episode #131 aired with OCSC Founder & President Anthony Sandberg extolling the joys of sailing and its green aspects. This nationally broadcast radio program runs on public radio stations in 16 states and on Sirius satellite across the USA and Canada. The 30-minute interview with Anthony starts at the beginning of the show.
Ten Amazing Adventures Under $1000
USA Today
March 20, 2008
"If you've dreamed of learning to sail, perhaps one day skippering your own boat around the Caribbean, but dismissed the idea because you lacked the necessary trust fund, despair no more." Read More.
I, Captain (pdf)
Go Magazine
March 2008
"Head to Fisherman's Wharf, and you'll find plenty of people ready to guide you on a sailing trip past the sea lions around Alcatraz Island. But wouldn't it be more fun to take the tour on your own?..." Read More.
Board of Advisors Can Help Steer Small Firms to Right Track (pdf)
Wall Street Journal (html version)
March 3, 2008
"Last year, after 28 years of running what is now one of the largest sailing schools in the U.S., Richard Jepsen and Anthony Sandberg decided they
needed help..." Read More.
A New Shining Path (pdf)
Outside Traveler
Winter 2007
by Michael Behar
"While thousands of trekkers swarm the Inca Trail, Machu Picchu's Salcantay route offers better views, deluxe digs, and splendid isolation." Learn More (pdf).
25 Best New Trips in the World (pdf)
National Geographic Adventure Magazine
November 2007
by Tom Clynes
"No crowds. Plush lodges. Jungles, glaciers, and high Andean peaks. The Camino Salcantay is the savvy traveler's alternative to the Inca Trail. Never has the road to ruins been so much fun." Learn More (pdf).
Like Marriage, Business Takes Work (pdf)
New York Times
November 29, 2007
"Mr. Sandberg says he believes his marriage might have survived had he and his former wife done the kind of intensive counseling that he and Mr. Jepsen have done with Mr. Ledgerwood." Learn More.
California Club Keeps Sailors Coming Back for More (pdf)
Cruising World
November 2007
"Anthony Sandberg founded the Olympic Circle Sailing Club in Berkeley, California, in 1979 to make sailing available and affordable for anyone with the desire to learn and participate."
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Couples Therapy for Business Partners
New York Times: Shifting Careers
November 29, 2007
"...Mr. Sandberg and Mr. Jepsen had been seeing a business consultant for years and going through a process that sounded quite a lot like couples therapy." Read More.
Come Sail Away (pdf)
The East Bay Monthly
October 2007
"...The boat's moving through the water. It's charging. I'm alive, and all those fetters --I've got HR things and insurance investments, all sorts of stuff-- melt away and I'm just a young guy, having a great time..."
Blurring by Choice and Passion
New York Times: Shifting Careers
September 3, 2007
"Mr. Sandberg’s relationship with sailing is like a love affair that has kept its
passion into the twilight years." Read more.
Success Story: Anthony Sandberg, OCSC Sailing (pdf)
Success Magazine
June 2007
By Rebecca Spagnuolo
"...maturity has taught us that real success, in terms of value, comes from gratitude and generosity." Learn More.
Bay Area Backroads featuring OCSC Sailing
KRON Channel 4
with Doug McConnell
May 12 & 13, 2007, 6:00 p.m.
Set your Tivos and VCRs so you don't miss Doug McConnell's sailing lesson with Team OCSC. Learn More.
At Work With: Anthony Sandberg (pdf)
The Oakland Tribune
April 29, 2007
'I chose this location for my school because the Bay has the best sailing in all of North America.' Learn More.
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Splash - Your Guide to Sailing the Bay and Beyond (pdf)
San Francisco Chronicle
April 27, 2007
'...and in 1979 he founded OCSC (originally knows as the Olympic Circle Sailing Club), which today is one of the largest sailing schools in the Bay Area.' Learn More.
Best Places to Work in the Bay Area (pdf)
San Francisco Business Times
April 27, 2007
OCSC voted one of the Bay Area's best places to work for the third year in a row! Learn More.
Wind Power (pdf)
The Josh Kornbluth Show
April 22, 2007
'Thanks to Anthony Sandberg’s generosity, my interest in wind power had spread from the land to encompass the waves as well.' - The Josh Kornbluth Show Blog (html)
Team-Building Firms Create Bonding Business (pdf)
East Bay Business Times
March 30, 2007
'We're bucking the trend. In an industry where team building is shrinking, we're actually growing. What started out as me and a boat in 1979 has become 80 employees and 50 yachts.'
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National Green Pages (pdf)
2007 Edition
January 2007
'When I was 30, I thought I could re-invent sailing, because it's too good to be the exclusive domain of the rich.'
Best of the Bay 2006
City Sports Magazine
December 2006
'OCSC, with its convivial vibe, regular barbeques and large fleet, wins our Best (Sailing School) of the Bay for a second year.'
At Play on the Bay
SF Chronicle DateBook
September 17, 2006
By Delfin Vigil
"It's like a freeway of wind from west to east so that at the end of the day you get blown through the Golden Gate into the Bay and right back to OCSC."
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Sailing
San Francisco Magazine
September 2006
"OCSC is the best big boat sailing school in the country" states Matt Gingo, director of small boat school, Cal Adventures. OCSC Founder, Anthony Sandberg puts it more modestly....
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Les raies manta mobilisent
La Dépêche, Bora Bora
August 2006
By Françoise Buil
Translated: "The American sailing school, "OCSC Sailing" organizes cruising trips to different destinations. For the second time, they decided to visit French Polynesia... The distinctive feature of this organization is that they've donated 5% of their charter costs to a group dedicated to the protection of Mantas (The Manta Network), which Manta Polynesia was chosen to be part of. OCSC will hand over a donation of $3600 (U.S.). "
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7 things to know right now
7x7
August 2006
By Melissa Goldstein
"True or False? In order to view the SF sunset from a yacht, you have to be friends with Larry Ellison? False."
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S is for Sailing
Diablo Magazine
August 2006
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Dreaming About... The Sailing Experience of a Lifetime
VIP Jackson Magazine
August 2006
By Chrissy Cheshire
"San Francisco Bay is notorious for presenting dramatic challenges to sailors and OCSC thrives on that!"
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Cycladian Rhythm
Outside Traveler
Spring 2006
By Rolf Potts
"The more time I spend aboard Assos, the more I appreciate the way sailing connects me to the rhythms of the weather and water. Away from land, life is less of an abstraction and the sea gradually reveals itself as an intricate and powerful wilderness." Read article (HTML)
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Berkeley Sailing School Uses Streaming to Reel in Students
Business Week/Small Biz
Fall 2005
"Anthony Sandberg figured that if a single picture is worth a thousand words, streaming video could be valuable indeed. Especially for a sailing school trying to impress clients with the joy of open water and salt air."
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Clear Sailing for East Bay School
Contra Costa Times
August 4, 2005
By Ann Tatko-Peterson, Times Staff Writer
"The sailboat measures almost 35 feet long. It costs about a quarter million dollars. And on this cool August day, it tilts at a seemingly precarious 45-degree angle, the starboard hull practically submerged in the water, the boat rocketing through every wave that stands in its path. The scene might look and feel like a maelstrom, if not for Anthony Sandberg . . ."
Berkeley Sailing School Tackles the Waves
Berkeley Daily Planet
July 29, 2005
By Ellen Galvin
"Can a sailing school in Berkeley change the world? Anthony Sandberg, 56, the Founder and President of OCSC Sailing, believes that the answer is an emphatic 'Yes!' . . . "
Sailor Sandberg is a Philanthropic Tidal Wave
Good Business Columnist
July 29, 2005
By David Goll
"Talking with Anthony Sandberg, one feels the late John Denver's expansive musical tribute to life on the sea, "Aye, Calypso" should be playing in the background. It's not just that Sandberg's business at the Berkeley Marina is the Bay Area's largest sailing school and club. Sandberg launched the Olympic Circle Sailing Club Inc. -- better known as OCSC -- in 1979. His love for his work, zest for life and San Francisco Bay-sized personality is readily apparent. As is his concern for less-fortunate people and health of the world's environment. "
Gary Allen on Business – KNBR 680 AM (Audio)
Interview with Anthony Sandberg
July 27, 2005
Interview with Gary Allen on how OCSC is making sailing more accessible. Listen to the Interview (14.2 mp3)
Sailing Toward Better Business Teams
Special to the East Bay Business Times
July 22, 2005
By Rich Jepsen
"A frequent criticism of corporate team-building programs is that there is too much talk and not enough action. Participants need challenging activities that explore and extend their capabilities, both as individuals and as members of a team. One of the best ways to do that is on-board a high performance racing yacht . . . "
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Sail on Sailor
City Sports Magazine
July 2005
"It is a Sunday morning in May, about 7:30. It's raining heavily, and the wind is whipping up waves, whitecaps and spray on the Bay. Normally I would be out for a bike ride or a hike on a Sunday, but not in this weather. Instead, I am heading to the Marina to continue my sailing lessons . . . "
A Summer Fave Gets Saucy and Strategic
Inc. Magazine
July 2005
By Patrick J. Sauer
"The Olympic Circle Sailing Club in Berkeley, Calif., does almost no formal advertising or marketing. Instead, president Anthony Sandberg prefers spending $50,000 every year on some 30 barbecue parties that are open to the public. The chili, clam chowder, chicken, and veggie burgers have been a part of that approach since the club's inception 26 years ago, when the "office" was a metal dockside box built next to the town dump. . . . "
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OCSC on the Cover of Latitude 38!
Latitude 38
June 2005
Partners make sailing club work
Oakland Tribune
June 5, 2005
By Kristin Bender
"For more than two decades, Anthony Sandberg and Rich Jepsen have run a Berkeley sailing school that started with one boat, a single telephone and a dream to bring the sport to ordinary enthusiasts, not just the spoiled elite. It's not surprising that the two have made teaching others to sail their life's work. Both Sandberg, 56, of Berkeley and Jepsen, 49, of Alameda have been sailing since early childhood. Both love not only the heritage, history and traditions of sailing, but also the connection that sailing has with the Earth's natural elements — wind, water and sun . . . "
Sail Away
Sunset Magazine
April 2004
by Lisa Taggart
"Sailing is for heroes. Sailors hop to it, and in an emergency can be counted on to reef the mainsail and batten down the hatches..."
Olympic Circle is thinking Green
Cruising World
September 2003
By Dieter Loibner
"Whenever members of the Olympic Circle Sailing Club (OCSC) hit the road, they have multiple agendas.... Wherever they go, OCSC sailors support environmental causes."
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73 OCSC Sailors Have Fun ‘Doing Good’
The Log
March 12, 2003
By Dieter Loibner
"The largest group ever of OCSC sailors assembled at The Moorings' base in Placencia, Belize, on Feb. 11 for a flotilla charter in the southern Cayes along the Barrier Reef. Having fun by doing good was the motto of 73 sailors associated with Berkeley's Olympic Circle Sailing Club who traveled to the small seaside town Placencia in Southern Belize on Feb. 10 for their winter fix of sailing, diving, fishing, and snorkeling. "
Best of the Bay Area (pdf)
San Francisco Magazine
July 2002
'Hone your skipper and crew skills and possibly find a mate.'