Traverse Area Community Sailing is an organization dedicated to providing sailing education and opportunities for all.
Support TACS
Help More People Experience the Joy of Sailing
Every day, Traverse Area Community Sailing (TACS) helps people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds discover confidence, connection, and joy on the water.
When you support TACS, you're doing more than funding boats and programs—you are expanding access, strengthening pathways, building community, and helping ensure that sailing remains accessible for generations to come.
Whether you choose to volunteer, donate, become a community partner, or support a specific program, you are helping keep the wind in our community's sails.
Ways to Support TACS
Become a Community Impact Partner
Community Impact Partners are businesses, foundations, and organizations that invest in the future of community sailing throughout Northern Michigan.
Partnership support helps sustain youth and adult programs, scholarships, adaptive sailing opportunities, instructor development, and fleet stewardship while demonstrating a commitment to healthy, active, and connected communities.
Partnership Levels
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Commodore Partner ($10,000+)
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Admiral Partner ($5,000)
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Skipper Partner ($2,500)
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First Mate Partner ($1,000)
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Crew ($500)
Support Youth Sailing: Wind In Their Sails
Help young sailors continue their journey from first-time sailor to confident racer, instructor, volunteer, and lifelong member of the sailing community.
Your support helps provide coaching, regatta participation, equipment, travel assistance, and opportunities for youth sailors to grow both on and off the water.
Every gift helps keep the wind in their sails.
Join Friends of TACS
Friends of TACS is our monthly giving program for supporters who believe sailing should be accessible to everyone.
Recurring gifts provide reliable support for scholarships, fleet maintenance, instructor training, community programs, and waterfront access.
Together, Friends of TACS help sustain the programs that make sailing possible year after year.
Support Access Through Scholarships & Adaptive Sailing
We believe everyone should have the opportunity to experience sailing.
Your gift helps provide scholarships for youth and adults, support adaptive sailing opportunities, and remove barriers that may prevent individuals and families from participating.
Because of supporters like you, more people can discover the confidence, independence, and community that sailing provides.
Honor a Legacy
Chad Richard Stecker Memorial Fund
The Chad Richard Stecker Memorial Fund honors Chad's love of sailing, the outdoors, and community by helping more young people experience the freedom and joy of being on the water.
Gifts to this fund help create meaningful sailing opportunities for future generations and ensure that more youth can discover the confidence, independence, and connection that sailing provides.
Mark Dolan Memorial Scholarship
The Mark Dolan Memorial Scholarship honors Mark's lifelong passion for sailing and his unwavering commitment to the Traverse Area Community Sailing community. Mark generously shared his time, knowledge, and enthusiasm with sailors of all ages, helping make sailing more accessible and meaningful for countless young people.
Through this scholarship, TACS recognizes graduating high school sailors who demonstrate a love of sailing, commitment to community, and the spirit of service that Mark embodied throughout his life.