A perennial champion and One Design Expert at North Sails, Brian has been sharing his skills and insights sail trim, rig tuning, and racing technique in clinics and training programs for decades.

Andrew Kerr is a World Class Sailor, Coach and Sailing educator from Plymouth, England, he
was educated at Island School in Hong Kong, Ealing Green High School in London, and the
London School of Economics.

He developed a passion for sailing whilst sailing extensively with his family in England and
Hong Kong and competed in two China Sea Races as a teenager.

Over the course of his sailing career, he has won 30 National and North American
Championships across various classes in the J24, J27, US Sailing Lloyd Phoenix Trophy,
Santana 20, Holder 20 and other classes and has finished 3rd, 4th and 5th multiple times in the
J24 World Championships and 5th in the J22 World Championships.

As a full-time sailing coach, seminar speaker, and North U instructor, he has coached and
presented hundreds of seminars and clinics both in the US and globally and contributed as a
coach to US Sailing programs and at Championship regattas.

He has held Head coaching roles at the Boston Sailing Center, Steve and Doris Colgate’s
Offshore Sailing School in Tortola and for many years at the J World Performance Sailing
school’s in San Diego, CA where he was on the inaugural coaching staff and helped launch the
school, in Newport, RI, Key West, FL and Annapolis, MD where he was also an instructor
trainer.

Teams and individuals that he has coached have gone on to win dozens of championships and
regatta’s – some of which include the J80 North American Championship , J105 North American
Championships, T10 North American Championships , ID 35 National Championships , Overall
Boat of the regatta awards at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Detroit and in Chicago ( twice) ,
Key West Race Week , Block Island Race week and the SORC.

He was named One Design Sailor of the Year in 2000 at Southwestern YC and contributes
coaching articles for Sailing World magazine and various class websites.

Andrew lives in Olympia, WA, with his wife Stephanie, a former America’s Cup sailor on the
all-woman’s team America 3 in the 1995 America’s Cup and a World and National Champion
weightlifter on the US Weightlifting team, their older son is a veteran of the US Marine Corp
whilst there younger son is in the US Army.

A veteran coach and champion racer, Dave Franzel founded the Boston Sailing Center in 1977.  Through coaching, clinics and seminars, he has helped thousands of people become better sailors and racers.

Drew Mitchell grew up sailing at the Lunenburg Yacht Club in Nova Scotia. He has raced on and coached high performance one design for nearly 20 years. Drew races in the Melges 24, Farr 30, Bluenose and Martin 242 fleets and has won the Farr 30 North Americans and Melges 24 PNW championship. He came in 3rd at Martin 242 North Americans and was in the Top 3 in the Bluenose class for the last 4 years at Chester Race Week. Drew’s distance racing experience includes winning the Van Isle 360 and racing the 2017 Transpac on a TP 52.

In addition to sailing, Drew enjoys playing hockey, surfing and snowboarding.