Our Crowdfunding Groups
The Cal Sailing Team is a student-run, competitive racing team from the University of California at Berkeley. The team regularly competes in regattas throughout the San Francisco Bay and on the waters of Southern California and Hawaii.
The Cal Sailing Team was started in 1922 and is the second oldest club sport at Cal. Our fleet of twelve FJs is located at Treasure Island Sailing Center where we practice three days a week. Only fifteen minutes from campus by car, Treasure Island provides some of the best sailing on the west coast as well as beautiful views of both the San Francisco and Oakland skylines.
Our team is trying to raise $4325 to pay our rent to Treasure Island Sailing Center (TISC). We keep our fleet of FJs at TISC, and while they give us a very generous deal on our rent, we are struggling to meet our fiscal obligations due to COVID-19. In normal times, we raise money for our rent through members’ dues that they pay to the team. However, we are unable to sail due to the pandemic and are thus cannot justifiably charge our members dues when we’re not providing them with any service or use of the boats. Further, we do not want to increase the financial burden that some of our members are already experiencing due to the inability to work at this time. It is incredibly important to the team that we are able to pay our rent because we have no place to store our boats without TISC. Accordingly, we are turning to generous donors and supporters such as yourself to help us meet our rent payments. Whether you’re a former Cal sailor, a family member of a teammate, or even just a friend of the team, we need your help! Any donations you can contribute to our goal would go a long way in helping us to meet our rent obligations. Even if you cannot donate, you can still help us by sharing the link to our crowdfunding page and passing the word along about our campaign. Thank you so much for supporting our team – go bears!
Contact Info:
Get a special shoutout in our next alumni newsletter!
Sit in on one of our team meetings! We'll go over different sailing tactics, team updates, and may even have a guest lecturer!
Have a personal, 30-minute (virtual) coffee chat with our Captain and President!
