University of California, Santa Cruz

BOATING CENTER

Welcome to the Community Boating Center!

UC Santa Cruz Community Boating Center is a community-based boating program that connects students and community members to the Monterey Bay through recreational activities including sailing, rowing and kayaking.

UC Santa Cruz Community Boating Center staff and veteran participants provide a familiarity with the equipment, skills, and water safety that comes from a lifetime of enjoying these sports.

The Community Boating Center also connects people who are interested in these sports to one another, whether you are a beginner seeking to learn something new or a experienced sailor, rower, and/or kayaker looking to improve your skills and get time on the water.

The UC Santa Cruz Community Boating Center was started in 1971 by Dick Murray, as a way to make aquatic activities accessible to the Santa Cruz community.

Over the past 45 years the UC Santa Cruz Community Boating Center has taught over 30,000 members of the Santa Cruz area how to sail, row, kayak, windsurf, and make educated decisions about our local waters, the Monterey Bay.

The program was originally designed to teach people how to sail and then added rowing and kayaking classes about 20 years ago to keep up with the growing demand for boating on different vessels.

We pride ourselves on providing people with the knowledge on how to make intelligent and safe decisions while boating on their own, and have introduced numerous people to a sport they can enjoy for the rest of their lives all over the world.

Our club exists to give community members, UC Santa Cruz students, faculty, and staff access to equipment that makes it possible to enjoy our beautiful Monterey Bay. The club provides members a unique opportunity to use any number of sailing and rowing vessels under the weekend supervision of the Boating Center dockmaster.