Sausalito Community Boating Center (SCBC) at Cass Gidley Marina is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit created to build and care for a community place that provides affordable access to boats and the water, preserves our maritime heritage through education and skill-building, and promotes environmental stewardship of our local bay ecosystem. Our mission is to preserve a gathering place on Sausalito's waterfront that engages and educates the public about our rich maritime history and small-craft heritage through affordable, direct experience. It is our vision that those we serve leave educated and inspired.
Affordable access and education are the heart of SCBC. Our free public dock is open every day, and on-the-water education for all ages and abilities is on the way through our partnership with Sausalito Parks & Recreation — maritime skills training, experiential youth learning with local schools built on a STEM curriculum, and boatbuilding programs with Spaulding Marine Center. Imagine learning math or science by building a boat and sailing it on the Bay. Our programs follow the Teaching With Small Boats learning model.
SCBC at Cass Gidley Marina occupies a beautiful site on Sausalito's historic working waterfront, surrounded by maritime tradition and expertise — boatbuilding, maritime trades, commercial fishing, sailing, and rowing are all part of daily life here. We keep that heritage alive with traditional wooden sail and rowboats, community gatherings that celebrate Sausalito's small-craft history, and collaborations with local maritime businesses that pass waterfront skills to the next generation.
Our site sits at the edge of the nine-hundred-acre Richardson Bay sanctuary — a dynamic tidal estuary alive with migrating birds and diverse sea life, whose eelgrass beds are the nursery and spawning ground for the Bay's herring. It's a remarkable setting for instilling environmental stewardship in our community and our kids, while helping protect the marine ecosystem right under our docks.
