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.

Todd Berman’s sailing experience spans boats ranging from dinghies to maxis. After a successful collegiate sailing career, Todd pursued sailing racing aboard dinghies and J24s in the early 80s then progressing to IOR, IMS and IRC 50 footers. Todd worked in the Sail making industry from 1987 to 1992.

Mark was elected to the Collegiate Hall of Fame and has won a J24 North American Championship, three Thistle Mid-Winter Championships, the Volvo Cup, and has a Sir Thomas Lipton Sportsmanship award.  Currently Mark races a full spectrum of boats, from J24s to Gun Boat 65s and serves as head coach to the University of Washington Sailing Team.  Most recently, Mark was 4th in Mexico City for the J24 North Americans, Tactician for the Winning boat in the Maxi World championships in Italy and will be sailing in the 2019 J24 World Championships in Miami.

Mark has served as U.S. Coach for three World Championship teams and is a former US Olympic Sailing Coach. He is renowned as among the world’s finest seminar leaders.  Mark has taught literally hundreds of seminars and clinics to sailing groups of every description. His racing clinics have been held in five countries worldwide.