“I love this city so much,” says Skip Abed, owner of the Santa Barbara Sailing Center. “I love showing it off and being an ambassador for it.”
As we have lunch on a particularly stunning day overlooking the harbor and ocean, Skip’s words ring true. In the midst of the past film festival, he handed me his business card out of the blue and told me to get in touch. He wanted to show me a perspective of Santa Barbara that I’d never seen: a view from a sailboat overlooking our beloved city. “There’s nothing quite like it,” says Skip.
Aside from awesome views, the S.B. Sailing Center provides professional sailing instruction, skippered sailing charters, bareboat charters, club member activities, kayak & stand up paddle board excursions, powerboat rentals, and daily cruises along the Santa Barbara coastline. Skip fell in love with chartering when he was 12 years old while sailing from Rhodes, Greece, along the Turkish coast for 10 days.