Full Name
Stan Honey
Job Title
Co-Founder and Offshore Navigator
Company
Sportvision
Speaker Bio
Stan Honey, as professional sailing navigator, has won the Volvo Ocean Race around the world, set the Jules Verne record for the fastest non-stop circumnavigation of the world, and set multiple 24 hour, Trans-Atlantic, Trans-Pacific, Sydney-Hobart, and Newport-Bermuda sailing records. In 2010, Honey was awarded the US Sailing Yachtsman of the Year Award and was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2012. Honey is a Yale/Stanford electrical engineer, three-time Emmy Winner for Technical Innovations in Sports TV, and an inventor on 30 patents in navigation and graphics. Honey led the development of the yellow first-down line widely used in the broadcast of American football, the ESPN “K-Zone” baseball pitch tracking and highlighting system, and the Race/FX tracking and highlighting system used in NASCAR. Honey was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2017 and into the National Inventors Halls of Fame in 2018. Combining his interests, Honey led the team which developed the LiveLine system to track the America’s Cup catamarans and superimpose graphics elements such as ahead-behind lines and laylines on the live helicopter footage of the race. In earlier navigation related work, Honey co-founded ETAK Inc. in 1983, the company that pioneered vehicle navigation systems with digital map databases, heading-up map display, and map-matching navigation.
Stan Honey