A 7-time circumnavigator, Dr Roger Nilson is one of the great Whitbread Round the World Race veterans, completing his first circumnavigation aboard the American yacht Alaska Eagle in 1981. He was the navigator aboard Drum in the 1985/6 Whitbread and skippered The Card in the 1989/90 and Intrum Justitia for the first leg during 1993/4 Race. He then went on to become navigator of Swedish Match in 1997/8, and Amer Sports One in 2001. Nilson also sailed as navigator aboard the French maxi catamaran Innovation Explorer in ‘The Race’ in 2001. and was on Orange II with Bruno Peyron when they broke the Trophée Jules Verne in 2005 with a time of 50d 16h 20min 4s
He has written five books and contributed to many sailing films as a cameraman/producer.
wikipedia link – Dr Roger Nilson
