Sailing Science Center Visits StFYC

Max Ebb comes true. In the January issue of Latitude 38, Max Ebb and Lee Helm show up at a prestigious yacht club for a luncheon event promoting the proposed Sailing Science Center. That event really will happen, this Wednesday, at St. Francis YC in the San Francisco Marina. The club hosts Yachting Luncheons every Wednesday on a wide variety of topics related to sailing. The lunch buffet opens at 11:30; the program runs from 12:30 to 1:30. First-time visitors will need to register with the front desk.

Captain Jim Hancock, a long-time sailor well known in the Bay Area and beyond, will speak this Wednesday, January 16. Jim is the founder and president of the San Francisco Sailing Science Center, to be headquartered on Treasure Island. He holds a master’s in naval architecture and marine engineering from MIT. He developed early computational fluid dynamic models — and he’s a sailing instructor.

Once completed, the museum will include 200 to 300 interactive exhibits in up to seven galleries (we’re picturing a sort of one-subject Exploratorium). Maybe if we spend some time there, even some of us sailing journalists will be able to follow what the heck Lee Helm is talking about.