As published March 5, 2010 on BuffaloRising.com by queenseyes

Seven Seas Sailing School of Buffalo is currently celebrating its 40th year on the shores of Lake Erie. I contacted Seven Seas' Captain Ed Quinlan who is currently in India at his winter residence teaching sailing at Seven Seas East India Sailing School.

Captain Ed, I hear you can start classes any day of the week, each week, all summer long. What does it take to Learn to Sail at Seven Seas?

With 40 years experience, we feel we've just about perfected the flexible schedule for the busy person wanting to learn to sail. It takes just $240 for our Learn to Sail program, and we guarantee you'll graduate. You get two 2-hour classroom sessions, a 2-hour dockside to learn the parts of the boat, the all essential safety equipment, and how to motor in and out of the dock, followed by three to four 2-hour on-water sail lessons with an instructor. You can read all about the course on www.SailingBuffalo.com.

As published in Soundings, The Nation's Boating Newspaper, May 2005

Young sailors in the Buffalo, N.Y., unit of Sea Scouts expect another season of drawing curious stares aboard Me and Brix, "The world's first and only brick boat." That designation, given by Ripley's Believe It or Not, comes from the brick-face finish the scouts have on their Irwin 25 sloop.

The "brick" boat came about from a conversation between the scouts and their leaders about the various materials used to build boats, says Bill Zimmerman, a leader and director of the Seven Seas Sailing School at RCR Yachts Skyway Marina, where the boat is kept.

"One Sea Scout quipped, 'They've never made a boat out of brick,' so we had to test that theory," Zimmerman says.