Tracy Spinney didn’t get a lot of sailing in while growing up in the oil fields of Oklahoma. But a week-long cruise on the Chesapeake in 1982 triggered a love affair with wind and water that’s held ever since. He has sailed most of the New England and Eastern seaboard; the Caribbean, Florida, Bahamas, Mallorca and has logged over 6,000 blue water miles through deliveries from New York, Newport and Bermuda to Florida, St Maarten, Antigua and the BVI working as a skipper for Performance Yacht Racing. USA.

In 2011, after a successful career in advertising, media production and commercial acting, he began teaching for Manhattan Sailing School. In 2015 he moved to Florida and currently teaches at Blue Water Sailing School. Spinney holds a USCG 100 Ton Masters and is an ASA Certified Sailing Instructor through Advanced Costal Cruising. He enjoys ocean racing and is looking forward to his first Atlantic crossing as well as becoming a shellback. When not teaching sailing, Tracy races every chance he can on both small and big boats.

Tracy will tell you sailing is a life-changing experience, “The wind takes you places where no engine can. And those places tend to be spectacular.” When he’s not sailing or racing or teaching, he promotes Sailors for the Sea and works with the Palm Beach Sailing Club and Coconut Grove Sailing Club to spread the joy of sailing. He is blessed to live in West Palm Beach with his wife Suzanne Weston Spinney and dogs Tiller Aubrey Weston Spinney and Dory Darlin’ Weston Spinney.

ASA 206 Advanced Costal Cruising Instructor . Outstanding Instructor of the Year 2017 . USCG Master’s 100 Ton . Advanced Open Water Diver . Certified in Basic First Aid, CPR and AED . STCWs completed 2017.

Tracy Spinney 2901 South Olive Avenue, West Palm Beach, FL 33405

tspinney@gmail.com

917 836 9130

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