2020 San Diego NOOD Multihull Event Rescheduled

Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta San Diego will now take place on September, 4-6, 2020!

Here is the latest update from the people at NOOD Sailing World.

Great News Sailors!

We have been working non-stop with our San Diego host clubs, San Diego Yacht Club and Coronado Yacht, club to reschedule the NOOD.  We did it, we are thrilled to announce that the Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta San Diego will now take place Sept 4-6, 2020. With every hope that life will be back to normal by then, we can't wait to get out on the water with you. 
 
We will transfer all of your entries to the new dates, Sept 4-6, 2020 so you don't need to re-enter or fill out any paperwork. If you find these dates do not work in your schedule, please do not hesitate to reach out (nood@sailingworld.com) and let us know. We will refund you in full.
Looking forward to it!  

Make your plans for this fun event!

Sailing World is the Organizing Authority for this regatta and San Diego Yacht Club is the Host Club and will coordinate race management in conjunction with Coronado Yacht Club. This is an official US Sailing sanctioned event.

Multihulls are scheduled for one race in North San Diego Bay on Saturday, September 5. The entry fee is $65 and there is an optional social package of 5 drinks for $15. The fun-filled after-party and awards are at SDYC.

This is a great opportunity to get to know the trimaran community, the new Corsair 760, and the Corsair Pulse 600 at the 2020 San Diego NOOD Regatta. 180 Marine is dedicated to developing trimaran education, training, and racing in Southern California.

Did you know...the NOOD Regatta series was founded in Newport, Rhode Island, by the editors of Sailing World in 1988 to help foster the growing interest in racing one-design sailboats.

We're making this our "regular stop" on our annual trimaran event schedule!

Last year (2019) we had a trimaran fleet of 6 boats joining the North Sails Rally Race.
We expect to have at least 8 trimarans racing this year!

These boats and skippers are registered to date. Given the schedule change there may be sailors who can’t make it or others who can.

Michael Last / Corsair 31 / Callisto III
Mike Hall / Corsair Pulse 600 / Chop Chop
Mark Berdan / Farrier F82 R / UnEven Keel
Peter Lucas / Corsair 31 / Flexible Flyer
Richard Allen / Corsair 760 / 180 Marine
Heiko Muller / Corsair 31 

If you are a trimaran owner and want to join our event, you can get up to speed and register using the links below. If you want to join our crew list, just send an email to leslie@180marine.com. We will try to set you up with a skipper on any boats that needs crew. Share a little about your sailing background, and why you want to join the race when you email. Thanks!

Our trimaran fleet will be joining the North Sails Rally Race, a single-day event.
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In 2019 we had participants from all parts of the country, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Colorado, Texas, and locals. There was great camaraderie among all who participated. Let's keep building the trimaran fleet in Southern, California! Here are a few characters from the 2019 Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta event in San Diego.

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EXCITING NEWS
180 Marine has the new Corsair 880 SPORT / hull #3 arriving in Southern California August 2020! This is the first Corsair 880 to arrive in the US!

The new Corsair 880 trimaran takes this concept to a whole new level! With tens of thousands of hours spent on this design the 880 has been developed for the modern sailor; adventurous and versatile. With full standing headroom, enclosed heads and the ability to sleep five, she is destined to become the next “peoples boat”.

Learn more about the new Corsair 880 trimaran >>

Contact Richard Allen for details on viewing and demos >>

2019 San Diego NOOD Multihull Results

The 2019 Helly Hansen National Offshore One Design (NOOD) Regatta made a splash in San Diego over March 15-17 weekend. The NOOD Regatta San Diego was the second in a series of 5 national regattas and 1 international regatta. 180 Marine organized a fleet of six trimarans with skippers and crew!

Participants filtered in on Thursday and Friday, arriving from New Jersey, Missouri, Texas, Utah, Washington, Colorado, and Southern California. 180 Marine organized a race practice day on Friday to give sailing teams the opportunity to prepare for the one-day race on Saturday. Over the weekend, fleet members admired, boarded, and discussed multihulls ranging from F82R, F28, C31, and the newest designs the Corsair 970 and Corsair 760. New Corsair 760R owners, Michael, and Maureen Acker, raced with Richard Allen on the Corsair 760 and piloted their new spinnaker during the race.

Wind conditions were great, it was a beautiful day!

The trimaran fleet comprised of skippers with a wide range of sailing experience, seasoned and green crew, crew new to multihull sailing, and owners awaiting delivery of their own new Corsair. Mark Berdan generously hosted 3 boats at the Silver Gate Yacht Club. Mark Allen of Uinta Brewing Company was the beer sponsor for the NOODS and 180 Marine.

The NOOD multihull class began the race using a pursuit start just off Shelter Island in the San Diego Bay. PHRF ratings were applied to determine the starting order of the boats. Mark Berdan’s F82R was the first multihull to start, while JT Cody’s C970 was last to pass the Starting Line Committee Boat.  The North Sails Rally – Multihull class followed the Circle C – South Bay Course C, heading just east of Point Loma to round the windward mark before reaching south toward the leeward mark in proximity to the Naval Amphibious Base and Coronado Bridge. The course allowed the sailors to beat to windward, reach for a distance and run under spinnaker. Wind speed at the start was 3 to 5 knots and gradually built to 12 knots.

In the multihull fleet, Mark Berdan, of San Diego, helmed his Farrier F82R, Uneven Keel, to a race win. “We were really excited because we had six trimarans today, and we seldom get that many down here,” said Berdan. “ The Corsair dealer Richard Allen organized to get the boats here, so it was great having a fleet of our own out there. Congratulations to Mark Berdan and his crew on a first-place finish. View some NOOD regatta footage of Mark’s F82R (10:41 timestamp) and Richard Allen’s Corsair 760 (11:16 timestamp). While UnEven Keel finished first ahead of the other boats, the lead was tighter and changed numerous times for boats vying for the other finishes. For instance, Glen Hackemer, a crew member aboard Peter Lucas' Flexible Flyer commented, "I felt we got in sync as the race went on. We passed Callisto III on the second leg and had about a 3 minute lead around the leeward mark. The positions tightened up in the final leg when Flexible Flyer took a deeper course than Callisto III, causing our boat to overstand the finish and lose to Callisto III by 10 to 15 seconds."

Participation of a record number of trimarans in the North Sails Rally – Multihull class aligned with Sailing World’s original vision for the NOOD, which was to promote the growing interest in racing one-design keelboats. It also fulfilled 180 Marine’s goal to help multihull teams develop essential sailing skills and knowledge and to have fun getting to know the great trimaran community at the San Diego NOOD Regatta.

Thanks to all skippers and crew for traveling to this action-packed event. We hope you made some new and lasting friendships and learned some new boating skills along the way!

Big thanks to Betsy Hackemer and Leslie Gabriel for reporting on this fantastic event!

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If you have any questions or suggestions on building the trimaran community in Southern California we'd love to hear from you!
Contact: Richard Allen / richard@180marine.com
or Mark Berdan / mark@berdanbenefits.com

Corsair Trimaran Performance Sailing Clinic - 2019

Randy Smyth coaching student

The 2019 Windcraft trimaran performance sailing clinic will be taught by Randy Smyth on May 18-19, 2019. (sold out) Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

We are very fortunate to have a world-class sailor, Olympic sailing coach and sailing movie “stuntman” Randy Smyth as chief instructor. Randy has a systematic, easy to use, approach to arriving at optimal sail trim, and he also has a host of personal experience to draw on which he shares willingly. Two other trimaran sailing coaches/racers/owners Don Wigston and Richard Allen will be assisting Randy. Topics covered in classroom presentations will be immediately be reinforced with on-the-water drills. Among the several positive aspects of the Performance Sailing Clinic which you might observe is the quality of the instruction, the patient onboard coaching from each assistant instructor, and the camaraderie among the participants and coaches stand out. When the group connects, good things happen!  The focus of the clinic is to help current Corsair owners learn to sail their own boats more efficiently, and for newcomers to sample the joys and thrills of sailing on Corsair trimarans.

Sailors will be coming from many different places (Colorado, Pennsylvania, Texas, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida) with different levels of experience will be meeting one another for the first time. Different levels of sailing experience in a group can sometimes cause frustration and potentially divide the group, but from past clinics, this has never been an issue.

The clinic covers a variety of topics from docking and anchoring, using tell tales to trim and steer for maximum speed, techniques for tacking and jibing, how to set up a spinnaker, spinnaker hoisting and dousing, man-overboard recovery, judging a starting line and more.

Even though some of the topics covered in the classroom sessions, demonstrations, and drills are very challenging for some of the less experienced participants, each sailor's skills will improve from where they were at the beginning to the last set of on-the-water drills. The spirit of team effort camaraderie helped each participant to make good on each tack, gybe or spinnaker set or takedown, thereby extending themselves and improving their skills and confidence.

By Sunday afternoon everyone present will have 20 more friends than when you first arrived! Which underscores one of the great things about owning a Corsair trimaran--you become part of a friendly, supportive group whose members worldwide are constantly helping one another get the most out enjoyment out of their boats.

For more information about this clinic contact Richard Allen.

Richard is a long-standing Corsair trimaran expert with vast experience across all models.
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