Will Oxley in Podcasts
personAustralian sailor and ocean navigator with extensive racing experience.
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Will was navigator on the Ichiban boat when it won the Sydney to Hobart in 2017 and again in 2019.
So Will began to learn the ancient art of celestial navigation using a sextant and the stars.
Will had been sailing on dinghies since he was a kid, but on that voyage across the Pacific with his dad, he got fascinated by ocean navigation.
Father and son crewed the boat alone and Will remembers keeping a bucket near him on night watch to regularly pour cold water over his head to keep awake.
Will was at boarding school in Melbourne when his dad rang, needing his help to bring a boat from the North Pacific to Papua New Guinea.
Will Oxley first sailed across an ocean at just 15.
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