MATT SCHULZ
President / Founder
Seamanship & Education BIO of Matt Schulz
1958 Sailing on small & self-built floats/dinghies in Berlin, Wannsee and Sweden lakes, 38’ Motor-sailor Ketch North Sea.
1962 Northern Germany (near Denmark) sailing on rivers and lakes and building my first bigger sailing dinghy.
1963 Involved with Youth Red Cross, trained in first aid, CPR. Completed Silver Lifeguard certificate (second highest at the time in Germany).
1965 Bonn, Germany, Rhine River and Lakes, small dinghies. Finished Tool & Dye maker (Feinmechaniker) apprenticeship at the Institute of Bio Physics in Bonn Germany).
1969 Joined German Navy - Mine-Sweeper (mine mechanic & navigation), aircraft mechanic (F104, Phantom, Breguet Atlantic SAR = Search And Rescue) & later aircraft inspections, cutter sailing skipper; sailing on: Lakes, Baltic Sea, i.e., Dehler 9m, Lancer and Scheren Kreutzer 43’, & small keelboats.
1972 Northern Germany, starting high sea sailing, North Sea, 38’ - 40’ wooden boats, teaching sports Judo to small kids, sailing, started windsurfing, teaching sailing at Bederkesa Lake with Dutch Army personnel.
1973 Circumnavigating England/Scotland coming from Norway with German Navy (watch captain while at sea).
1973 – 1978 Skippering keel boats, mostly Baltic Sea, Denmark, Sweden and Oslo, Norway on a 50’ steel cutter ‘Sinbad Exe’; skippering 28’ - 50’, fiberglass, wood and steel hulls 1974 Completed sailboat skipper certificate BR # 20066 for river sailing in Bremen. Germany Power boat skipper’s license # 35889.
1974 Sailing in Aegean Sea, Yugoslavia, Mediterranean Sea, France, and Spain. Vessel sizes Hobby Cat, Tornado and wooden Sailing Yachts to 44’.
1979 Completed BK Sailing & Skipper’s Licenses, (second highest sailing certificate in Germany) in Kiel WG, Certificate # 12677. Started Schulz Yacht Service, teaching windsurfing and small keelboat sailing, emergency at sea Man over board maneuvers, how to get a stranded yacht of the ground. Delivering 40’ Ferro-Cement Yacht (via canals and rivers Rhine, Mosel, Channel De Lest, Saone, Rhone river into to the Mediterranean Sea. Became member of Trans-Ocean International Sailing Association to encourage people to go high sea sailing www.Trans-Ocean.org - Taught windsurfing in France.
1980 Atlantic crossing in Sapphire 29’ sloop (26 days at sea, celestial navigation). Sailing in the Caribbean waters, sail master on a 65’ German Yawl. Started windsurfing school in Long Island, NY, East Northport, “Hawaiian Sailboat Company”. 1982 01/82 Skippered 68’ Deerfoot for 11 months, including long trips to Mexico. Started European Yacht Service with 2-4 employees installing electric/electronic systems and rigging. Taught sailing, boat handling and performed safety inspections. Involved in some regatta activities. Started Trans-Ocean base in Los Angeles, CA (see website, www.Trans-Ocean.org/ToBase_g01.htm.)
1982 – Present Lecturing about preventive maintenance in yacht clubs, OCC - NB, on the West Pacific Coast & Japan (May/2000), WM Product stores, San Diego, Marina Del Rey Marina, CA. Teaching and educating customers boat handling and boat safety taking individuals & International students sailing (USC & UCLA) to present. Page 2 of 4 pages Seamanship & Education BIO of Matt Schulz (continued) 1987 Started ‘Schulz Surveyors’, Marine Surveyor for sailing and Motor Yachts up to 120’. Teaching boat handling, lecturing on boat safety. Finished Hang Ten Cup 14th of 45 people, with four international Olympic teams in the field.
1991 - 1997 Family outreach for new UCLA students at the UCLA International Dashew Student Center.
1997 - Present Started cruising multihull sailing of 43’ catamaran to present. 2001 Assembled 53’ racing catamaran “Afterburner” from New Zealand, continued in inspection survey of this vessel. Sailing foldable trimaran for 2½ years, F9A and gave sailing instruction on that vessel. Inspection of a 55’ custom Catamaran at Gils Catamaran, Costa Mesa, CA.
2003 Established seamanship academy Life Sail Inc. (the Life Sail idea was founded in 1984, Incorporated 2003) www.LifeSail.com
2005 Surveying most winning Ocean Racing Yacht of it’s time in the world “KILOA III” in Uruguay, 70’ MY Custom Catamaran in San Diego, inspection of Roy Disney’s 95’ Carbon fiber custom racing Yacht 'Pyewacket' (most winning record of Maxi fleet in the world), Alchemy, etc. Surveying Larger Yachts: Hatteras 62’ Buddy 2 at Yashuda Shipyard Co, LTD in Tokyo, Japan, and reinspection Hatteras 60’ Lady Tabitha for Dome Corporation, Mr. Hideyuki Shima Tokyo, Japan (1st survey in Florida 1/7/00 than reinspected 4/21/00 in Tokyo Japan). 85’ Broward ‘Sovereign’ (was owned by John Travolta), ‘Galatea’, & ‘Royal Eagle II’ Power catamaran 86’, ‘Alchemy’, 89’ Benetti ‘Bella’, 82’ Mc Queen ‘Elegante’, 94’ Eagle ‘Splash’, Benship 101’, Afterburner 53’ Custom Catamaran Bill Gibbs, etc.; Involved in catamaran construction advisory. Conser 47’ ‘Wet Okole’ and custom Barbaric 43’ catamaran and discussion groups till present. Cruising Overview: West Germany, North Sea, English channel, Baltic Sea, Denmark, Sweden to Oslo Norway, around Great Britain, Holland, France North & South, Mediterranean, Adriatic Sea, 26 day Atlantic Crossing in 29’ Sailing sloop, Caribbean Sea (3 month), Pacific West Coast cruising, long distance sailing non-stop 1000 mile (5/08).
Skipper deliveries 1969 to present: 40’ Ferro-cement Junk-rigged yacht “See Eule”, 29’ Safire (Atlantic crossing 1980), Deerfoot 68’ 11 month skippering (3 months Baja Mexico cruising), Vagabond 47’ Ketch San Francisco to Long Beach, Gemini 31’ Catamaran delivery from Long Beach to Napa Valley, single hand 35’ Ericson from Ensenada to Marina del Rey, CA, numerous short distance deliveries between San Diego & Santa Barbara, CA, Skippered 58’ MY for 1½ years, owner 45’ Sloop ‘Typhoon’ cruising/racing yacht, around Channel Islands, MDR to Cabo San Lucas 20 mi N of Cabo San Lucas.
Teaching: Sailing- and Motor Yacht handling since 1982 (docking, man over board, anchoring, seamanship) advanced sailing (bad weather), trip preparation.
Teambuilding: The purpose of the activity is to build a team through teamwork. The sailboat presents a unique opportunity in the following ways: Boat = Business Crew = Employees Task = Product
References: Yacht Clubs on the Pacific Coast, Del Rey Yacht Club Staff Commodore Steve Valensi, California Yacht Club Steve Hathaway President, Staff Commodore Bill Petersen & past Commodore Steve Curran, SMWYC past Commodore Bob Falasi, Marina Manager Tony Nash, Marina del Rey - Single Sailing Association, Oxnard Y-Clubs, San Diego Corinthian Yacht Club, Corinthian Yacht Club- Newport Beach, on Teaching Staff Orange Coast College Newport Beach, CA (5Y) manager Brad Avery, several Ventura Yacht Clubs and Tokyo Japan Tomahawk boatyard (has new name today), professional discussion groups.
Financial Institutions: Essex Credit, Scott Boat Loan Vickie M, Pacific Yacht finance - Sandra Ewing (owner), Dimen Yacht insurance, Sea Cost Yacht insurance - Fred Roman, Trident Marge Brookshire & Jeff Long, Deutsche Bank, etc.
Insurance Companies: Hayden Insurance, Ingmar, Mariners General, Boat US, Vessel Assist, West Marine and others, several European Insurance Companies, etc.
Professionals: Stan Dashew inverter & sailor present owner of Deerfoot 73’ (27Y), Sea Tek Alan Blond (26Y) now owned by Pedro Vargas – rigging -, Maritime Communication Mr. Kent - electronics- (27Y), Mike Lenneman Catamaran sailor (27Y), Jim Kilroy Maxi Sailor “Kialoa” business owner, Steve Valensi ret. lawyer past Commodore Del Rey Yacht Club (26), Bill Peterson (26Y) - sailmaker CYC Staff Commodore (Sailmaker, international racer, professional American Cup sailor), H&S Yacht sales (26Y), Steve Curran CYC Staff Commodore (26Y), Larson’s Ship Yard owner Nancy Dixon (8Y), N.B. CA, Basin Marine owner Dave New (10Y), N.B., Crows Nest N.B., CA (7Y), Steve Hathaway President CYC (27), Marina Sailing CA Mrs. Chris (27Y), Manager SMWYC marina Tony Nash (24), Bob Falisey past Commodore SMWYC, Morelli & Melvin Navel Architects (8Y), Bob Nam VP Catalina Yacht Anchorages, CA; Flying Cloud Yachts, Jody, Lon (Multihull expert 18Y), owners of Colonial Yachts (26Y), Orange Coast College Newport Beach CA, (Brad Harvey 6Y), John with ‘Catana Catamarans’ in San Diego, CA, Wayne son of Gils Catamaran designer and builder N.B., CA; Luxury Yacht International, FL Linda Krantz; Peter Haack Del Rey Performance, Jim Frazier owner multiple power & sailing vessels (20Y), Dr. Barbaric ret. Radiologist catamaran sailor and builder, Charlotte Schmidt Yacht Sales, Ventura, CA, etc. Other professionals in the Yachting industry available up on request between Germany, Fiji, Japan, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico and Eat- & West Coast USA.
Members of: ACMS - CMS (Association for Certified Marine Surveyors) 401-397-1888 http://www.acms-usa.com/directory.html
ASA American Society of Appraisers (ASA) www.appraisers.org
ABYC - (American Boat &Yacht Consul)
NFPA – (National Fire Protection Agency)
TO - (Trans Ocean - Society to encourage High Sea Sailing)
TO - Base S. CA (assisting circumnavigators)
TO - Trans Ocean e.V. SMWYC - (Santa Monica Windjammer Yacht Club)
MUSCA - (Marine Underwriters of Southern CA) German Navy retired (mine sweeper, aircraft inspections)
President & Founder of LifeSail Inc. www.LifeSail.com
Attending educational meetings: NAMS since 1987 & SAMS 2004 – present International & online education
1987 - 2007 Leading & organizing Southern, CA Subregional Education Meetings for Marine Professionals, mostly independent-, NAMS - & SAMS surveyor groups
Matt Schulz
www.SchulzSurvyors.com
www.LifeSail.com
1958 Sailing on small & self-built floats/dinghies in Berlin, Wannsee and Sweden lakes, 38’ Motor-sailor Ketch North Sea.
1962 Northern Germany (near Denmark) sailing on rivers and lakes and building my first bigger sailing dinghy.
1963 Involved with Youth Red Cross, trained in first aid, CPR. Completed Silver Lifeguard certificate (second highest at the time in Germany).
1965 Bonn, Germany, Rhine River and Lakes, small dinghies. Finished Tool & Dye maker (Feinmechaniker) apprenticeship at the Institute of Bio Physics in Bonn Germany).
1969 Joined German Navy - Mine-Sweeper (mine mechanic & navigation), aircraft mechanic (F104, Phantom, Breguet Atlantic SAR = Search And Rescue) & later aircraft inspections, cutter sailing skipper; sailing on: Lakes, Baltic Sea, i.e., Dehler 9m, Lancer and Scheren Kreutzer 43’, & small keelboats.
1972 Northern Germany, starting high sea sailing, North Sea, 38’ - 40’ wooden boats, teaching sports Judo to small kids, sailing, started windsurfing, teaching sailing at Bederkesa Lake with Dutch Army personnel.
1973 Circumnavigating England/Scotland coming from Norway with German Navy (watch captain while at sea).
1973 – 1978 Skippering keel boats, mostly Baltic Sea, Denmark, Sweden and Oslo, Norway on a 50’ steel cutter ‘Sinbad Exe’; skippering 28’ - 50’, fiberglass, wood and steel hulls 1974 Completed sailboat skipper certificate BR # 20066 for river sailing in Bremen. Germany Power boat skipper’s license # 35889.
1974 Sailing in Aegean Sea, Yugoslavia, Mediterranean Sea, France, and Spain. Vessel sizes Hobby Cat, Tornado and wooden Sailing Yachts to 44’.
1979 Completed BK Sailing & Skipper’s Licenses, (second highest sailing certificate in Germany) in Kiel WG, Certificate # 12677. Started Schulz Yacht Service, teaching windsurfing and small keelboat sailing, emergency at sea Man over board maneuvers, how to get a stranded yacht of the ground. Delivering 40’ Ferro-Cement Yacht (via canals and rivers Rhine, Mosel, Channel De Lest, Saone, Rhone river into to the Mediterranean Sea. Became member of Trans-Ocean International Sailing Association to encourage people to go high sea sailing www.Trans-Ocean.org - Taught windsurfing in France.
1980 Atlantic crossing in Sapphire 29’ sloop (26 days at sea, celestial navigation). Sailing in the Caribbean waters, sail master on a 65’ German Yawl. Started windsurfing school in Long Island, NY, East Northport, “Hawaiian Sailboat Company”. 1982 01/82 Skippered 68’ Deerfoot for 11 months, including long trips to Mexico. Started European Yacht Service with 2-4 employees installing electric/electronic systems and rigging. Taught sailing, boat handling and performed safety inspections. Involved in some regatta activities. Started Trans-Ocean base in Los Angeles, CA (see website, www.Trans-Ocean.org/ToBase_g01.htm.)
1982 – Present Lecturing about preventive maintenance in yacht clubs, OCC - NB, on the West Pacific Coast & Japan (May/2000), WM Product stores, San Diego, Marina Del Rey Marina, CA. Teaching and educating customers boat handling and boat safety taking individuals & International students sailing (USC & UCLA) to present. Page 2 of 4 pages Seamanship & Education BIO of Matt Schulz (continued) 1987 Started ‘Schulz Surveyors’, Marine Surveyor for sailing and Motor Yachts up to 120’. Teaching boat handling, lecturing on boat safety. Finished Hang Ten Cup 14th of 45 people, with four international Olympic teams in the field.
1991 - 1997 Family outreach for new UCLA students at the UCLA International Dashew Student Center.
1997 - Present Started cruising multihull sailing of 43’ catamaran to present. 2001 Assembled 53’ racing catamaran “Afterburner” from New Zealand, continued in inspection survey of this vessel. Sailing foldable trimaran for 2½ years, F9A and gave sailing instruction on that vessel. Inspection of a 55’ custom Catamaran at Gils Catamaran, Costa Mesa, CA.
2003 Established seamanship academy Life Sail Inc. (the Life Sail idea was founded in 1984, Incorporated 2003) www.LifeSail.com
2005 Surveying most winning Ocean Racing Yacht of it’s time in the world “KILOA III” in Uruguay, 70’ MY Custom Catamaran in San Diego, inspection of Roy Disney’s 95’ Carbon fiber custom racing Yacht 'Pyewacket' (most winning record of Maxi fleet in the world), Alchemy, etc. Surveying Larger Yachts: Hatteras 62’ Buddy 2 at Yashuda Shipyard Co, LTD in Tokyo, Japan, and reinspection Hatteras 60’ Lady Tabitha for Dome Corporation, Mr. Hideyuki Shima Tokyo, Japan (1st survey in Florida 1/7/00 than reinspected 4/21/00 in Tokyo Japan). 85’ Broward ‘Sovereign’ (was owned by John Travolta), ‘Galatea’, & ‘Royal Eagle II’ Power catamaran 86’, ‘Alchemy’, 89’ Benetti ‘Bella’, 82’ Mc Queen ‘Elegante’, 94’ Eagle ‘Splash’, Benship 101’, Afterburner 53’ Custom Catamaran Bill Gibbs, etc.; Involved in catamaran construction advisory. Conser 47’ ‘Wet Okole’ and custom Barbaric 43’ catamaran and discussion groups till present. Cruising Overview: West Germany, North Sea, English channel, Baltic Sea, Denmark, Sweden to Oslo Norway, around Great Britain, Holland, France North & South, Mediterranean, Adriatic Sea, 26 day Atlantic Crossing in 29’ Sailing sloop, Caribbean Sea (3 month), Pacific West Coast cruising, long distance sailing non-stop 1000 mile (5/08).
Skipper deliveries 1969 to present: 40’ Ferro-cement Junk-rigged yacht “See Eule”, 29’ Safire (Atlantic crossing 1980), Deerfoot 68’ 11 month skippering (3 months Baja Mexico cruising), Vagabond 47’ Ketch San Francisco to Long Beach, Gemini 31’ Catamaran delivery from Long Beach to Napa Valley, single hand 35’ Ericson from Ensenada to Marina del Rey, CA, numerous short distance deliveries between San Diego & Santa Barbara, CA, Skippered 58’ MY for 1½ years, owner 45’ Sloop ‘Typhoon’ cruising/racing yacht, around Channel Islands, MDR to Cabo San Lucas 20 mi N of Cabo San Lucas.
Teaching: Sailing- and Motor Yacht handling since 1982 (docking, man over board, anchoring, seamanship) advanced sailing (bad weather), trip preparation.
Teambuilding: The purpose of the activity is to build a team through teamwork. The sailboat presents a unique opportunity in the following ways: Boat = Business Crew = Employees Task = Product
References: Yacht Clubs on the Pacific Coast, Del Rey Yacht Club Staff Commodore Steve Valensi, California Yacht Club Steve Hathaway President, Staff Commodore Bill Petersen & past Commodore Steve Curran, SMWYC past Commodore Bob Falasi, Marina Manager Tony Nash, Marina del Rey - Single Sailing Association, Oxnard Y-Clubs, San Diego Corinthian Yacht Club, Corinthian Yacht Club- Newport Beach, on Teaching Staff Orange Coast College Newport Beach, CA (5Y) manager Brad Avery, several Ventura Yacht Clubs and Tokyo Japan Tomahawk boatyard (has new name today), professional discussion groups.
Financial Institutions: Essex Credit, Scott Boat Loan Vickie M, Pacific Yacht finance - Sandra Ewing (owner), Dimen Yacht insurance, Sea Cost Yacht insurance - Fred Roman, Trident Marge Brookshire & Jeff Long, Deutsche Bank, etc.
Insurance Companies: Hayden Insurance, Ingmar, Mariners General, Boat US, Vessel Assist, West Marine and others, several European Insurance Companies, etc.
Professionals: Stan Dashew inverter & sailor present owner of Deerfoot 73’ (27Y), Sea Tek Alan Blond (26Y) now owned by Pedro Vargas – rigging -, Maritime Communication Mr. Kent - electronics- (27Y), Mike Lenneman Catamaran sailor (27Y), Jim Kilroy Maxi Sailor “Kialoa” business owner, Steve Valensi ret. lawyer past Commodore Del Rey Yacht Club (26), Bill Peterson (26Y) - sailmaker CYC Staff Commodore (Sailmaker, international racer, professional American Cup sailor), H&S Yacht sales (26Y), Steve Curran CYC Staff Commodore (26Y), Larson’s Ship Yard owner Nancy Dixon (8Y), N.B. CA, Basin Marine owner Dave New (10Y), N.B., Crows Nest N.B., CA (7Y), Steve Hathaway President CYC (27), Marina Sailing CA Mrs. Chris (27Y), Manager SMWYC marina Tony Nash (24), Bob Falisey past Commodore SMWYC, Morelli & Melvin Navel Architects (8Y), Bob Nam VP Catalina Yacht Anchorages, CA; Flying Cloud Yachts, Jody, Lon (Multihull expert 18Y), owners of Colonial Yachts (26Y), Orange Coast College Newport Beach CA, (Brad Harvey 6Y), John with ‘Catana Catamarans’ in San Diego, CA, Wayne son of Gils Catamaran designer and builder N.B., CA; Luxury Yacht International, FL Linda Krantz; Peter Haack Del Rey Performance, Jim Frazier owner multiple power & sailing vessels (20Y), Dr. Barbaric ret. Radiologist catamaran sailor and builder, Charlotte Schmidt Yacht Sales, Ventura, CA, etc. Other professionals in the Yachting industry available up on request between Germany, Fiji, Japan, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico and Eat- & West Coast USA.
Members of: ACMS - CMS (Association for Certified Marine Surveyors) 401-397-1888 http://www.acms-usa.com/directory.html
ASA American Society of Appraisers (ASA) www.appraisers.org
ABYC - (American Boat &Yacht Consul)
NFPA – (National Fire Protection Agency)
TO - (Trans Ocean - Society to encourage High Sea Sailing)
TO - Base S. CA (assisting circumnavigators)
TO - Trans Ocean e.V. SMWYC - (Santa Monica Windjammer Yacht Club)
MUSCA - (Marine Underwriters of Southern CA) German Navy retired (mine sweeper, aircraft inspections)
President & Founder of LifeSail Inc. www.LifeSail.com
Attending educational meetings: NAMS since 1987 & SAMS 2004 – present International & online education
1987 - 2007 Leading & organizing Southern, CA Subregional Education Meetings for Marine Professionals, mostly independent-, NAMS - & SAMS surveyor groups
Matt Schulz
www.SchulzSurvyors.com
www.LifeSail.com
Website: http://www.SchulzSurveyors.com
Email: Matt@LifeSail.com
