Competitor profile

Tim Newson (35) is a furniture maker and Principal of the Guilded Tiller Sailing School based in the UK. Tim began sailing dinghies when he was 13, and has entered his Baba 35 sail training cutter Black Sheep.
His school concentrates on teaching traditional sailing techniques aboard Black Sheep during regular voyages to the Scilly Isles and Brittany. He has also cruised the North Sea and Spain's Atlantic coast.