Uli Sommerlatt

Hey Uli, thanks for taking the time out to talk to us. Before we get into your involvement with North, can you run us through your background?

Sure, my background mainly comes from the yachting industry. I am a naval architect and started my career initially as a boat builder. So I have a hands-on approach when it comes to product design and development. Growing up in a little coastal town on the Baltic Sea in Germany, I started sailing from the age of five and went through the different dinghy classes on to big boat racing. By 18 things got a bit more professional, and I started an apprenticeship as a boat builder. I followed this by studying naval architecture a few years later. During my studies, I spent a year in New Zealand as an intern at the Twisted Flow Wind Tunnel of the University of Auckland, then back in Germany I finished off my studies and then worked for the yacht design office Judel/Vrolijk. For the next nine years, I designed one-off performance cruiser