Will Oxley, navigator for Alvimedica, interviewed as the boat…
Will Oxley, navigator for Alvimedica, interviewed as the boat approaches the doldrums on October 20.
Source: The Inside Track – Episode 7.
Oxley’s bio, as listed at Sailing Scuttlebutt:
Will Oxley, 49, North Queensland, Australia
DOB: April 22, 1965
Will brings navigation depth to this young team having been part of three Volvo Ocean Races, twice as navigator. Will has completed more than 240,000 nm of ocean racing including four round the world races and 14 Sydney to Hobart races. He skippered Compaq in the BT Global Challenge 2000/01 and he was also the weather coordinator for the Swedish Victory Challenge America’s Cup team. He provided navigation and weather support for Puma in the 2008/09 Volvo Ocean Race. For the 2011-2012 Volvo Ocean Race he was navigator with Camper (Emirates Team New Zealand). Will is also a marine biologist, working from 1992-2000 at the Australian Institute of Marine Science as part of the Long-term Monitoring Project studying the Great Barrier Reef.
There are sailors in this race who have a lot of experience. And sometimes that experience tells them, eh, it’s kind of a crapshoot. Hope we get lucky.
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Tags: vor, volvo ocean race, team alvimedica.
