Jon Turner is a British yachtsman boat builder and innovative engineer. Turner has won national or world championships in many racing dinghy classes as detailed below. Turner was originally apprenticed to Souters in Cowes Isle of Wight building International 14s and Flying Fifteens. When they stopped that type of work Turner went to work for 'Spud' Peter Rowsell, a boat builder in Exmouth with whom he won the Merlin Rocket Championships in 1974 & 1978. He then crewed Phil Morrison to win the Fireball World Championships in 1981 at Weymouth. Over a fifteen-year period Turner won the British Merlin Rocket National Championship twice as crew (1974 and 1978) and four times as helm (1983, 1984, 1987 and 1988).