Island Life Magazine Ltd August/September 2009 | Page 54

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ON THE WATER

Photo: Jules (left) and Guy hold
aloft the Fighting Finish Trophy
awarded to the winning team
in the Volvo Ocean Race.
Photo by: Rick Tomlinson/Volvo Ocean
Race

Salter's Sailing Success
Jules and Guy Salter, whose home is in Gurnard, talk to Island
Life about winning the Volvo Ocean Race at their second attempt,
sailing together on Ericsson 4.
Back at home, after nine months racing

Jules admits to being physically tired

Qingdao in China, Rio de Janeiro, Boston

around the world, culminating in claiming

and rather out of shape. “The training

USA, Galway in Ireland and Marstrand

the Fighting Finish winner’s trophy at

regime we had maintained in the longer

and Stockholm in Sweden. Part of the

the finale of the Volvo Ocean Race in St

stopovers has fallen by the wayside,

rehabilitation back into the real world is

Petersburg, Russia, real life has kicked in

so fitness needs a bit of work over the

to spend time with them, before returning

for Jules and Guy Salter and the lack of

summer. A couple of weeks at home and

to the action out on the water in Cowes

racing has left a void.

then, mentally, I will be ready to move on

Week and the Fastnet Race.

“It feels a bit empty to be honest,” says
Guy. “It is just weird to have been with a

to some new challenges,” he says.
Both have wives and children, who have

With the 10th running of the Volvo
Ocean Race now consigned to history,

huge travelling circus; effectively with a

been to some of the stopovers on a race

was winning it a dream come true or is

bunch of friends from all over the world

track that included, Alicante in Spain,

racing around the world just another box

and now we are back to normal life.”

Cape Town, Cochin in India, Singapore,

to tick for the Brothers Salter?

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