David Ullman
Sailing career
Class(es)470, Melges 24, Snipe, Lido 14, Thistle, Sabot, Coronado 15
Club Balboa Yacht Club

David Ullman (born 1946) is an international yachtsman, sailboat racer, and sailmaker. Ullman founded Ullman Sails in Newport Beach, California in 1967.[1]

He won the 470 World Championships in 1977, 1978 and 1980, and the Melges 24 World Championships in 2007.[2]

He also won the National Championships in Lido 14 (eight times),[3] Snipe (1973),[4] Thistle,[5] Sabot and Coronado 15.

Besides, Ullman won the gold medal in Snipe at the 1975 Pan American Games and in 1980, the Championship of champions (Jack Brown Trophy)[6] and the U.S. Men’s National Championship (Mallory Cup)[7] He is also a five times (1992-1996) winner of the Sir Thomas Lipton Challenge Cup.[8][9]

Ullman has also won races in the S.O.R.C. class, and is a U.S. Team Racing champion. He formerly coached the U.S. Olympic Sailing Team.[7] Ullman continues to race and coach, and is active in running his international sailmaking business.[1][10]

Awards

Ullman was named US Sailor of the Year in 1996, and was nominated again in 2007.[11] He was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2016.[12]

Publications

  • Championship Dinghy Sailing (1978), with Christopher Caswell[13]

References

  1. 1 2 Dave Ullman - yachting's elder Statesman (Pt.I), John Curnow, September 12, 2010
  2. ↑ Melges 24 World Championship - Ullman the ultimate survivor of a wild west windup! 8 May 2007
  3. ↑ Bringing the fight to the Lido 14 Nationals, July 31, 2014
  4. ↑ Commodore Charles E. Heinzerling Trophy winners
  5. ↑ Newport Yacht Club "Birds and Worms" newsletter, April 2014
  6. ↑ US Sailing
  7. 1 2 IOD Celebrity Invitational Program
  8. ↑ San Diego Yacht Club Lipton Cup History: Who Were Those Guys?, Jared W, August 06, 2014
  9. ↑ Entered in Lipton Challenge Cup This Weekend May 30, 1997
  10. ↑ "About Us". Archived from the original on 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
  11. ↑ Yachting. April 1997. pp. 17–. ISSN 0043-9940.
  12. ↑ "David Charles Ullman 2016 Inductee". Nshof.org. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  13. ↑ Christopher Caswell; David Ullman (1978). Championship Dinghy Sailing. David and Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-7812-0.
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