The Founder's Comments from the Sailing Science Center 2022 Making Waves Gala highlight the SSC's three pillars of Ocean Stewardship, STEM Education, and Leadership.

The Sailing Science Center Made Waves at its 2022 gala. These are some of the highlights.

A conversation between Jim Hancock and podcast producer and volunteer, Charlie Deist, about the link between stress and health, and between health and sailing. How can we use stress to our advantage? What are the cultural causes of our health predicament? Are we becoming too comfortable? And how can sailing be a part of the solution? Charlie recently wrote some thoughts on his newsletter, suggesting that a sailing revival might be the answer to our physical malaise: https://50mileman.substack.com/p/sun-wind-and-steel Support the Sailing Science Center's mission at https://sailingscience.org/donate Music from Bensound.com intro: Going Higher Outro: All that

Jonas Schumacher, co-founder and CEO of Smartmark (https://mysmartmark.com/), talks about his company's game-changing technology: a dynamically positioned racing mark. Smartmark's innovative technology promises to create greener, less labor-intensive, more accurate, race courses at all levels of sailboat racing. Before the interview we were unsure of its value. We are now believers! Support the Sailing Science Center's mission at https://sailingscience.org/donate Music from Bensound.com intro: Going Higher Outro: All that

Video short of the SSC's event for the Encinal Yacht Club on the final day of their 2022 Summer Camp.

Sailing Science Center Pop-Up Exhibition at the Encinal Yacht Club, June 22, 2022. Alameda, California.

Jim Hancock interviews Cree Partridge, owner of the Berkeley Marine Center and installer of the first hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered auxiliary on a West Coast sailboat. Cree discusses his early boating background, boatbuilding designs and materials, and makes an astonishing claim about ferro-cement boats. He also reveals his favorite boat-building material. Listen to find out. Support the Sailing Science Center's mission at https://sailingscience.org/donate Check out the BMC at https://berkeleymarine.org Music from Bensound.com intro: Going Higher Outro: All that

Sailing Science Center Founder and President Jim Hancock sits down with Charlie Walther, a marine engineer who spent 23 years working for Crowley Maritime, doing everything from pumping bilges and working his way up to the director of engineering and machinery for five years. He left Crowley 33 years ago to start his own business, Walther Engineering, and has been involved in the "Green-ification" of the San Francisco Ferry fleet. The subject of our conversation was environmental and social consciousness in the marine industry, including the role model presented by projects like the Matthew Turner: https://callofthesea.org/about-us/our-fleet/matthew-turner/ Music from Bensound.com intro: Going Higher Outro: All that Support the Sailing Science Center's mission at sailingscience.org/donate