Captain Dan
Captain Dan Ryder is a licensed U.S. Coast Guard Captain with 40 years of
sailing experience. He's sailed the East Coast, the West Coast, the
Caribbean, the Mediterranean as well as numerous lakes in the Midwest and
has spent the last 15 years sailing the Pacific coast.
For the past few
years he has based his sailing operations in the Ventura and Channel Islands
Harbors, which offer direct access to Southern California's Santa Barbara
Channel and the nearby Channel Islands.
Captain Dan Ryder has skippered a wide range of vessels through the years,
from a 14' Hobie Cat on the Atlantic to serving as Underway Command Duty
Officer on U.S.S. Nimitz, operating in waters from the Persian Gulf to the
North Sea and North Atlantic.
