Stan Honey ('78 B.S.) knew Yale's reputation for sailing greatness before he ever set foot on campus. He'd grown up in southern California, sailing dinghies since he was 7 years old, and raced yachts by the time he reached high school. But Honey says collegiate racing wasn't of the same caliber on the West Coast at that time. "Yale was highly revered in competitive sailing," Honey says. "I wanted to go into the heart of the beast."
At 63 years old, Honey is still racing on the world circuit, most recently as a navigator for the 100-foot Comanche in Australia's Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race from Sydney Harbor to Queensland, and has been sailing full-time since 2004. He navigated the 105-foot trimaran that set the world record for fastest non-stop circumnavigation of the globe in 2010 (49 days, 7 hours, and 44 minutes), navigated the winning boat in the 2006-2007 Volvo Ocean Race, and has won numerous Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac) races as a navigator and singlehanded sailor. He has navigated race boats for Nolan Bushnell, Steve Fossett, Richard Branson, Larry Ellison, Jim Clark, and Roy Disney.
