Captain Lawrence Baum   is our head instructor.  He is a United States Sailing Association licensed instructor, a lifelong sailor and boat builder and holds a U.S. Coast Guard 50-ton Masters license for inland waters.  Capt. Baum was, prior to moving to Camano Island, one of the head sailing instructors for the City of Seattle Park and Recreation program where he taught for 15 years in sailing programs for people of all ages. He holds certifications from US SAILING  as a Small Boat ("dinghy") and Basic Keelboat Instructor and is also a US SAILING Instructor Trainer in Small Boats and has tested and certified many of the small boat instructors working in programs all over the northwest. Camano Sail and Power is also a Washington Fish and Wildlife licensed saltwater fishing (and crabbing) guide service.
    Prior to moving to Camano and founding Camano Sail and Power and Lil' Cat Boat Co, Ltd., he was a consulting geologist in mineral exploration and mapping and a geology professor at the Idaho College of Mines and Earth Resources, the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Salvador, Brazil and a geology instructor at numerous community colleges around the Puget Sound area.
   
Ms. Bonita ("Bonnie") MacPhail   is a sailing instructional assistant at Camano Sail and Power. Bonnie first was introduced to sailing while working at the University of Washington. She and a co-worker in medical research had fun learning how to sail C-larks and Lasers. They spent the summers sailing around the waters near the UW. However, Bonnie was distracted by a job offer in Scotland and lived there for a year working in the department of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh.  When she returned to Seattle, she took sailing classes again, and loved the reinforcement of her sailing skills.  Life took a turn away from sailing, and she raised two daughters, went back to college and earned another degree in music. She taught piano in Seattle for several years, and now lives on Camano Island with a growing piano practice.  She is thrilled to have the opportunity to renew her sailing skills with Camano Sail, and to combine her teaching and sailing skills.