Richard Lloyd “Dick” Tillman Inducted into the US Sailing National Hall of Fame

Dick Tillman was inducted into the Class 2024 of the US Sailing Hall of Fame.

Tillman was Snipe US National Champion in 1959, bronze medal at the Pan American Games in 1959 and SCIRA Commodore in 1972. He passed away at his home in Syracuse, IN, in 2020.

Also, Tillman led his Naval Academy team to two National Championship (1956, 1957).  He won the Finn North Americans (1965), Laser North Americans (1971, 1972, 1973), Sunfish World Masters (2002), was a member of the U.S. Olympic Sailing Team in 1976, and became a top competitor in windsurfers in his sixties.  He was named US Sailing’s Yachtsman of the Year in 1965.  Tillman sailed with Hall of Fame sailors Lowell North and Vince Brun in the Soling Class Olympic Trials in 1980.  (The USA did not compete in the Games that year due to a boycott over the Russian attack on Afghanistan).

After retiring from the Air Force, he and his wife Linda, managed the J 24 Class for ten years (1981-1991) and was named President of the Windsurfing Class Association (1999-2002);  he also served as President of the International Sunfish Class Association (2002-2006) and served on the US Olympic Yachting Committee (1976-1980).

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