Stan Honey

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Stan Honey (born April 8, 1955) is an American professional offshore navigator with world sailing records and a businessman who founded Etak and Sportvision.

Honey's track record as a navigator includes a victory in the

Groupama 3.[1]

As a businessman, he is the father of consumer on-screen navigation, including the automotive navigation systems used around the world, with his company Etak. The initial start-up funding came from

Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre
.

Nolan Bushnell's 67ft ULDB Charley (Ron Holland design, 1983)

"[Co-founder Stan Honey] was doing military-related research at SRI International in 1983 when he sailed with Pong inventor and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell to victory in a Transpac race aboard 'Charley', Bushnell's new 67ft racing yacht. Bushnell was impressed with Honey's navigational electronics and asked whether he had any other ideas. Honey suggested a car navigation system. Bushnell gave him $500,000 in seed money, and digital-mapping firm Etak (named after a Polynesian term for navigation) was born."[2]

While at SRI, he earned his master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University.[3][4]

With his company

"glowing" hockey pucks, baseball strikes, and the real-time "player cards" in international football (soccer).[5]

He was the head sailing coach and selection judge in

Disney's movie Morning Light.[6][7][1]

Stan Honey was the Director of Technology for the

The George Wensel Technical Achievement Award for America's Cup LiveLine.[8][9][10]

Honey was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2012.[11]

He is married to Sally Lindsay Honey, a two-time US Yachtswoman of the Year.[3]

In 2016, Honey was the navigator on board the super-boat Comanche during her successful attempt at breaking the monohull Trans-Atlantic speed record. His unprecedented strategy of riding a single system ahead of a storm for the whole crossing is considered key to its success, taking only 5 days, 14 hours.

In 2022 Sally and Stan won the 52nd edition of the Newport Bermuda Race in their Cal 40, Illusion. Thereby winning the St. David's Lighthouse trophy with 108 boats competing over the 635 nautical mile course.[12]

References

  1. ^ Ellison, Ben (16 March 2012). "STAN HONEY: SAILOR-GEEK EXTRAORDINAIRE". Yachting. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  2. ^ Dickson, Glenn (2000-07-24), "Charting Sportvision's course", Broadcasting & Cable, archived from the original on 2017-02-28, retrieved 2008-05-23
  3. ^ a b Guthrie, Julian. "Sally and Stan Honey, America's Cup couple". SFGate.com. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  4. ^ "Stan Honey, Sports Broadcast Graphic Enhancements". invent.org. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  5. ^ Squadron, Bill. "The Bonus: The story behind football's innovative yellow first down line". SI.com. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  6. ISSN 0458-3035
    . Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  7. ^ "Haines Keeps Morning Light on Course". www.sailingworld.com. 7 August 2006. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  8. ^ "WINNERS OF THE 33rd ANNUAL SPORTS EMMY® AWARDS | The Emmy Awards - The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences". emmyonline.com. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  9. ^ "America's Cup wins Sports Emmy Award for its Mobile App >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News". Scuttlebutt Sailing News. 2014-05-07. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  10. ^ "The Augmented Reality America's Cup". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. Retrieved 2017-06-10.
  11. ^ "Stanley Honey 2012 Inductee". Nshof.org. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  12. ^ "Bermuda Race Winners Claim the Best". 27 June 2022.

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