2023 Viper 640 World Championship
CONGRATS to NESS’s Mark “Zorro” Zagol, Drew Buttner, and Tim Desmond for taking 4th overall and winning the Corinthian award for the top amateur at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Viper 640 World Championship! 
The championship attracted teams from Canada, Jamaica, India, and 14 U.S. states from California to Maine!
“After a 9-day trip and 6 days of sailing, we were able to pull off 4th place at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Viper 640 World Championships. Thanks to Tim Desmon and Drew Buttner, who put everything they had into it. We did win the Corinthian division as the top amateur team and were awarded the Corinthian World Championship Trophy. Thanks to all the Viper sailors, this is an awesome class full of awesome people…”
– Zorro
“The Allstate Sugar Bowl Viper 640 World Championship experienced the extremes on March 26-31 in New Orleans, LA…From beginning with no wind and no racing, with too much wind on the final day that canceled races after the first one, it was all on for the 33 teams on of Lake Pontchartrain…”
