Barry Pickthall is a respected sports writer and photographer and has been covering all aspects of sailing and boating for the past 35 years, 20 of them as a yachting correspondent to The Times newspaper.
He has been covering the international stage for the past 4 decades from the Olympics to America's Cup and Round the World Races.
His entertaining dialogue takes audiences alongside some of the biggest names in the sport including America’s Cup icons Dennis Conner, Ted Turner, Russell Coutts and Sir Ben Ainslie; round the world sailors Sir Francis Chichester, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Sir Chay Blyth, Dame Ellen McCarthur and Tony Bullimore; and Olympic medallists Paul Elvstrom, Rodney Pattisson and Shirley Robertson.
Pickthall is also a qualified sailing instructor – having graduated from one of the first courses held at the UKSA.