William Oxley (born 1965) is a racing skipper/navigator and marine biologist who has completed more than 300,000 nm of ocean racing including five round the world races and 20 Sydney to Hobart races. From 1992 to 2000 he worked at the

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as part of the Long-term Monitoring Project which is intended to monitor the condition of the

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. He skippered ''Compaq'' in the BT Global Challenge 2000/01 and he was also the weather coordinator for the Swedish VICTORY Challenge

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Team. He provided navigation and weather support for Puma in the 2008/09

Volvo Ocean Race The Ocean Race is a yacht race around the world, held every three or four years since 1973. Originally named the Whitbread Round the World Race after its initiating sponsor, British brewing company Whitbread, in 2001 it became the Volvo Ocean Rac ...

. For the 2011–12 Volvo Ocean Race he was navigator aboard Camper (

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). Oxley was the navigator for Team Alvimedica in the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race.Volvo Ocean Race , Alvimedica
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. In 2014, Oxley published an e-book with Amazon titled ''Modern Race Navigation: Expedition Software in Action''. In 2017, he published his second e-book "Expedition Navigation Software: A Gentle Introduction".

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Oxley, Will 1965 births Living people Australian male sailors (sport) Volvo Ocean Race sailors Team New Zealand sailors Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Australian sportsmen