About Dan Turner
Introducing Daniel Turner who is currently residing in Adelaide, South Australia. Daniel has always had a passion for sailing, adventure and living life in an exciting fashion.
Daniel grew up in the small city of Port Lincoln, South Australia, known for its seafood and great waters for sailing, fishing and other ocean sports and activities. After starting out, in Holdfast Trainers at 6 years of age, he moved into the 125 and pacer classes as a teenager as well as racing keelboats on his Father’s Farr 30 and Grandfather’s Adams 12.
After finishing high school, Daniel spent four years in the Australian Army as a Combat Engineer and Combat Fitness Trainer and represented the Australian Defence Force at regattas nationally and around the World in the Tasar class.
Upon discharging, Daniel moved back to Port Lincoln for a few years where he started racing keelboats and training young sailors on a Sydney 32 before moving to Adelaide for a career in the property industry.
For a while, Daniel spent some time away from sailing after taking up endurance running and competed in several marathons and ultra-marathons including the Marathon Des Sables in 2015 (265kms across the Sahara Desert over 6 days), known as the Toughest Footrace on the Planet.
After obtaining his goals in endurance running, his thoughts turned towards the sea once more as he wanted to achieve some of the offshore sailing goals he had as a child. He purchased the Sayer 11 known as Team Runaway and began refitting the yacht to compete in the 2018 Melbourne to Osaka Yacht race.
Daniel and co-skipper (legend) Tom Crabb ended sailing well in the race finishing 4th over the line and 4th on handicap. Since this time, he has again taken a bit of time out of the water due to the financial commitment of such a big race.
Now, there is one final goal that has been on Daniel’s bucket list since a young age, being to sail around the World.
