INSTRUCTOR BIOS
“Experience Counts ”

Captain Brenton Lochridge is a lifelong boater who grew up power-cruising the Chesapeake Bay aboard his family’s 38ft Hatteras.  At the age of seven, Brenton was sent to sailing camp and discovered a passion that would consume him ever since; growing from avid dinghy sailor to accomplished offshore racer and cruiser.

By age sixteen, Brenton was teaching sailing in Westport, CT at the largest community sailing program in the country.  He spent his free time developing his big boat handling skills at the local yacht club and realized that he would spend his life on the water.

As a student at Maine Maritime Academy, Brenton received extensive training on a variety of sail and commercial powerboats up to 600 feet in length.  As a freshman, he was asked to develop and administer sailing curriculum to all underclassman to meet their physical education requirement.  He became a certified skipper in the school’s cruising program and was chosen to be the alternate helmsman/main-trim for the school’s offshore racing team.   

While at the Academy, Brenton gained extensive local knowledge of waters from Maine to New York City and at age 19, he started his own private yacht delivery service between Cape Cod and Penobscot Bay; moving boats between these prime cruising grounds. 

After school, Brenton continued his career as a US Sailing Instructor in Westport, CT, until taking an opportunity to move to the British Virgin Islands to sail year-round as a sailing instructor/school manager and freelance charter-boat captain in 1995. 

In 1998, the Vice President of US Sailing asked Brenton to move up to Greenwich, CT to start a new community sailing program.  Within the first week of operation, the school became the second largest junior sailing program on Long Island Sound, earning national recognition from US Sailing as the “Outstanding New Program, 1998.”  Within a few years, this program would grow into one of the largest sailing programs in the North East.

During the off-season, Brenton delivered yachts of all makes, models, and sizes throughout New England, down the Eastern Seaboard, and offshore into the Caribbean.  He taught boating safety courses most weekends and had a successful high school coaching career, helping a young team take top honors at the county and state level after a few seasons.

As Brenton’s reputation grew, additional opportunities arose.  Brenton was asked to be featured in the US Sailing Small Boat Sailor online training videos and to be a guest speaker at US Sailing Symposiums.  He has worked as a consultant to various community sailing programs throughout New England, and has been called upon by numerous yacht clubs to help create and administer special learn to sail/race programs. 

Over the years, Brenton has been mentored by industry leaders from around the country, given the opportunity to interact with world-class instructors from around the globe, and has held senior management/instructional positions at award winning programs within the United States and abroad.  He is currently American Sailing Association (ASA) Instructor Certified up to the Coastal Navigation Level, and a USCG licensed captain.

Brenton’s home is quite literally on the water.  Although he lives aboard a cruising sailboat and spends much time out on a race course, you will frequently find him exploring local waters in various center console powerboats as well as delivering much larger express and convertible cruisers.  He enjoys the pleasures that both activities provide and understands the limitations each activity may have.

Douglyss Giuliana
Doug Giuliana loves sailing. Doug was introduced to sailing by his wife Michelle when they went sailing on the Charles River in Boston. The joy of finding the wind and making the boat go fast was all Doug needed to become instantly addicted. Little did he know that sailing would become his hobby, passion, and career.

Doug and Michelle have spent the last 10 years sailing throughout Cape Cod Bay and the Caribbean. Doug, probably like you, never sailed across an ocean and feels like he doesn’t get enough days on the water. But those are two issues he hopes to soon remedy.

In addition to cruising, Doug enjoys racing both dinghies and keelboats. In his first regatta, at the Sunsail Club Colonna base in Antigua, Doug bested over 30 competitors and won both his class and the overall regatta in a Laser Radial. He has since raced on J-boats, cruising boats, and daysailors as both helmsman and crew.

After spending 10 years in the technology industry, Doug managed to combine his entrepreneurial spirit and business education with his love of sailing to create his dream career. While getting his MBA at Babson College in 2004, he founded SailTime Boston, a local base of the global SailTime organization. SailTime offers fractional memberships and an intelligent ownership program in new Hunter cruising sailboats. Now in its fifth year and one of the largest SailTime bases in the world, SailTime Boston has grown to five Hunter sailboats from 30-36 feet with dozens of raving fans.

Doug became the local Hunter Marine dealer in 2007 when he co-founded Advantage Yacht Sales. AYS also sells Vanguard and Colgate 26 sailboats from its waterfront location in Newburyport, MA.

Building on the success of SailTime Boston and the training offered to members, Doug co-founded Black Rock Sailing School with Brenton Lochridge in 2008.  He has been a certified ASA sailing instructor for the past four years.

Doug owns a 2004 Hunter 306 named “Paul Revere” through the SailTime owner-member program.