One°15 Brooklyn Marina

Meet our Coaches

We refer to all instructors on our sailing staff as Coaches, because we believe there is a great difference between teaching and training.

We’ve carefully selected a group of individuals with backgrounds and experience in global cruising, racing, and commercial operations. All our coaches hold Coast Guard approved licenses and are US Sailing Certified.

With their experience and ability to share their knowledge in an active learning environment, our coaches have helped us create the best sailing school New York has to offer.

Anthony McGovern

Anthony grew up in New York on Long Island, where he started sailing in his early teens. He competed in Lasers and 420’s on the Long Island Sound before becoming a youth program instructor at The Head of the Bay Club and Centerport Yacht Club, and the Head Instructor at the Hempstead Harbor Club. He also worked at an adult instructor at the Courageous Sailing Center in Boston, and a teen instructor and the Principal Race Officer at Hudson River Community Sailing. Anthony is excited to share his passion for sailing with the ONE°15 Sail Club community. When he’s not on a boat, Anthony enjoys traveling and seeing live music.

Vincent Mattiola, Assistant Director of Sailing

Vincent grew up sailing small boats and racing Hobie cats as a kid all over the Northeast. In college at the University of Pittsburgh, he co-founded the sailing team and helped acquire a fleet of boats for students to train and enter collegiate sailing events. His passion for sailing quickly evolved into big boat cruising, and he began volunteering & working as crew on yacht deliveries all over the East & West Coast, Central America, Caribbean, and Mediterranean. Soon, Vincent began facilitating his own deliveries and charters as Captain, teaching offshore sailing, and introducing more people to the sport. Having recently logged his 50,000^th nautical mile and 720^th day at sea, he now holds a USCG 100 ton Master license. When not sailing, he loves climbing, SCUBA diving, mountain biking, cooking, traveling, and cleaning plastic out of the oceans. His favorite boat remains the Hobie 16, but these days he can be found sailing everything from cruising catamarans to racing yachts.

Amy Dietz

Amy grew up sailing on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Every year, her parents would charter a boat for a month to travel the east coast. At the age of 8, she was sent to sailing camp in Brewster, Cape Cod, where she returned year after year, eventually exploring other Cape Cod sailing schools as well. For 5 years during high school and college, she taught sailing at a club in Boston on Hobie cats, lasers, and 420s. During her final years there, she was the head instructor, overseeing the curriculum and all levels of the summer camp program, coaching the racing group. After moving to New York, Amy worked at the Manhattan Sailing School teaching ASA Basic Keelboat Sailing for two seasons. Occasionally, when not sailing, she windsurfs.

Amy has been instrumental in leading our sailing school since the Sail Club was founded in 2015.

STEPHEN YIP, Executive Director of Sailing

Stephen has over 20 years of experience as a sailing instructor as well as inshore and offshore racing and cruising sailing experience. Stephen began his sailing career with a community sailing program on a small fresh water reservoir in Calgary, Alberta. Through the generosity and goodwill of other sailors, Stephen has accumulated a wealth of racing and cruising experience from sailing in different venues around the world in variety of different boats. Since its inception, he has served as the Director of Sailing Operations for ONE°15 Brooklyn Sailing Club. He is a RYA Offshore Yachtmaster, a USCG licensed captain and is acertified instructor with US Sailing and the American Sailing Association. In his spare time, he continues to race competitively, run bareboat charters and delivers boats in his spare time.