Bruce Bingman
Bruce Bingman, Chairman, owns and races a Mumm-30 in one-design, MORC and PHRF. He has raced a wide variety of boats ranging from Snipes to a Frers 62. He has sailed in numerous Key West Race Weeks, Block Island Race Weeks, Newport Gold, NYYC regattas, Newport-Ensenada, Cabo San Lucas, US IMS Championships, 2002 MUMM-30 Worlds and a lot of local races as crew/boat captain/owner-skipper. He placed 3rd in 2001 Lloyd Phoenix Regatta as skipper. Starting with the 1996 Olympics as a coach boat/press boat driver as well as powerboat driver instructor, Bruce jumped into Race Management and has been on the Race Committees for 1998/2000 Kenwood Cup, 2003/2004/2005 Key West, 2005 Miami Race Week, 2004 North Sails Race Week, 2002 Star Worlds, 2004 J-22 Worlds, and 2001 to 2005 Rolex Women's Keelboat Championship
In recent years Bruce has brought his scientific research skills to the development of algorithms for predicting boat speed. He is interested in looking at the feasibility of developing base handicaps for well known boats with large national representation in PHRF to which regional or local offsets may be applied to arrive at a final handicap or sailing number for scoring races. Bruce is the immediate Past Chair of USPHRF and member of its Executive Committee and current USPHRF Committee Vice Chair. He is a recent member of the US Sailing Board of Directors, member of the IMS Owners Committee, and the Offshore Committee. He is IRC Committee Chair, Chair of the NOC Executive Committee, Chair of the Offshore Championship Committee, member of the US SAILING Nominating Committee, and member of the US SAILING House of Delegates