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© Wander Roberts: Torvar Mirsky backflips as he wins the 2009 Troia Portugal Match Cup
Jim Saltonstall is one of the most influential sailing coaches in the world. Having set up the RYA youth programme in the late 70s, he has been responsible for the development of some of the greatest sailing talents of recent times - names such as Ben Ainslie, Iain Percy, Bart Simpson - the list goes on. Jim (supposedly now retired) is still actively involved in the sailing scene, except that now he picks and chooses his projects ....
Paul Cayard calls into Sailing Talk from San Francisco, where at the ripe old age of 5-0 he'll soon be racing a Five-Oh (geddit?!) in the 505 World Championships with dinghy legend Howie Hamlin, himself no spring chicken. Not surprisingly, Paul's also got something to say about the 'stored power' should-they-allow-engines-in-the-America's-Cup debate. Justin Chisholm reports from the Mirror Worlds which are concluding in North Wales....