Ambition Racing
 Jeremy Salvesen - Co-Skipper

Until three years ago, Jeremy’s sailing experience was limited to ‘mucking around’ in a Mirror dinghy with his two brothers and two sisters near the Salvesen family home in Scotland. This introduction to sailing between the age of 8-10 years-old was the only contact he had with the sea until 2005 when a chance encounter with crews from the BT Global Challenge in New Zealand fired Jeremy’s ambition to sail around the world.

Jeremy enrolled as a novice sailor training for the 2007-08 Global Challenge, but when the business foundered, he was left without a mission. Jeremy’s entrepreneurial business acumen has been key to organising the racing campaign and securing sponsorship while a fast track coaching and training programme was undertaken.

Since 2005 he has amassed practical sailing qualifications, trained in dinghies to hone his sail handling skills and has mastered the science of Astro navigation. He took delivery of Mowgli in May this year and had his first taste of double-handed, offshore action during their eight day qualifier sailing around Britain and Ireland encountering Force 8 conditions.

 
 David Thomson - Co-Skipper
David Thomson is probably the most experienced sailor in the Portimão Global Ocean Race with extensive experience on both multihulls as well as monohulls. As crew aboard the massive catamaran Playstation, Thomson held four world speed records including the coveted west-east Transatlantic record from Sandy Hook, New Jersey to Land's End, United Kingdom. He has also sailed on many of the latest generation Open 60s including Hugo Boss currently being campaigned by Thomson's brother Alex.

Later this year he will be joined in the Southern Ocean by brother Alex who is campaigning his Open 60 Hugo Boss in the Vendée Globe.



 
Piers Williams - Team Manager
Piers Williams also originally signed up to do Chay Blyth's Global Challenge and met Jeremy training on a Challenge 72 in October 2006. Since leaving the army in 1981, Piers has had a hugely successful career as a headhunter - but has always been looking for a greater personal challenge.

With the demise of the Global Challenge, Piers (known as Pip), has channelled his efforts into Team Mowgli - without him we would never have been able to get this project off the ground.