• Did you really say your kid wants to teach sailing? Smart idea: sunshine, fresh air, responsibility. “It’s a great job, like nothing else you will ever do,” says young Cassidy Lynch, who has taught in five programs from Seattle to San Francisco.
But there’s a conversation we have to launch now, not later, and it’s not about your kid, exactly. It’s about what is difficult when it comes to sail training in America. Getting ready to write, I spoke with a heap of people. Coaches, commodores, what have you. Pro forma, I contacted Gowrie Group, which offers insurance through US Sailing to clubs and community sailing. There I found myself engaged with the company’s Whitney Peterson, but what I took away was the moment when Peterson jumped topic to…