Sailing school finds new ways to connect with community

FORT MYERS — With no customers during the coronavirus pandemic, Offshore Sailing School, which operates four sailing training schools in the region and two more in the British Virgin Islands, has turned to a new resource: videos.

The school’s founders, Steve and Doris Colgate, are producing self-made videos from their home on the Caloosahatchee River in Southwest Florida, according to a press release. Under the banner #DocksideChatswithSteve, the videos, according to a statement, offer “a little sailing-oriented entertainment to those who may also be homebound during the COVID-19 crisis.”