Stan Honey

It seems Stan (from the SF Bay aria) was asked to navigate a French Multihull in search of the Jules Vern Trophy. Witch is quite a honer seeing they only ask French Men to crew on their boats. The kicker is his cruiser of choice is a cal 40. How bout that race fans.

I used to get my sails repaired at a shop his wife owned. I remember when they bought the Cal-40 and started restoring it. Sally said they poured gallons and gallons of get rot into the hull. She also said that they got caught in a storm in the Pacific Cup race to Hawaii. They had one of her spinnakers up and were afraid to take it down. She said the bow wave was two feet above deck level back at the cockpit. I think I saw an article on him in this months Latitude-38. You can look online. Allen PS. I never thought my joke about 90% of people who drown having their flys down would turn into the thread of the year. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:34 PM, JR <jr… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: > > > It seems Stan (from the SF Bay aria) was asked to navigate a French > Multihull in search of the Jules Vern Trophy. Witch is quite a honer seeing > they only ask French Men to crew on their boats. The kicker is his cruiser > of choice is a cal 40. How bout that race fans. > > >

By the way, I was reading a recent issue of /Sailing/ magazine, and there was a picture of the very exotic trimaran that just set an around-the-world record. It mentioned that Stan Honey had sailed as navigator. The trimaran maintained average speeds of 24 knots across the North Atlantic. Average! That's faster than a surfing Cal 40, isn't it? Chris Campbell