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Audio interviews with top navigators ahead of the Atlantic Anniversary Regatta Bermuda-Hamburg Race

by Louay Habib 6 Jul 2018 13:41 PDT 8 July 2018
Stan Honey © AAR / Louay Habib

Audio interview with Stan Honey, navigator for George David's Rambler 88, just 48 hours before the start of the AAR Bermuda to Hamburg Race.

This will be Stan Honey's 12th west-east Transatlantic. Looking at weather models and historic data. Stan commented that the weather could be "wildly variable" with moving lows from the west and a very strong Azores High making the northerly route favoured.

Audio interview in English with Jean-Luc Nelias, navigator for Eric de Turckheim's Nivelt-Muratet 54 Teasing Machine, just 48 hours before the start of the AAR Bermuda to Hamburg Race.

Jean-Luc Nelias has won the last two TJVs with Sodebo, and was the navigator for Groupama, winner of the 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race.

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