Top Tips and Tuning with Jim Saltonstall MBE

At which attraction?  Boat Clinic  on Sat 17th - 12:35, 15:15

If one man deserves recognition for Britain’s remarkable success within the sailing Olympic arena, it is Jim Saltonstall – the coach who has cajoled, encouraged, and inspired so many youngsters towards world stardom over the past 3 decades This plain speaking Yorkshireman calls a spade a spade with the same delivery and authority as that other great County ambassador Geoffrey Boycott.

He joined the Royal Navy at 15 and ended his time as Navy sailing coach before being head-hunted by the Royal Yachting Association to become National Racing Coach. It was Saltonstall who went out to identify young talent and develop a youth programme that has become the envy of the world and made Britain the top yachting nation at youth and Olympic levels. Honoured by the International Sailing Federation with a life-time achievement award in
2007,

Jim was also awarded an MBE in 1997 and voted Yachtsman of the Year in 1984. Among those to have passed through his hands are 4-time Olympic medallist Ben Ainslie, fellow Olympic champions Iain Percy and Nick Rogers,and a host of other world champions. The roll of honour include Stuart Childerley, Jason Belben, Andy Hemmings, Lawrence Crisp, Andy Beadsworth, Chris Draper, and Sally Cuthbert - the only person to win four Youth World championships in succession.