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Will learnt the art of celestial navigation in his 20s and he is now one of the world’s leading ocean race navigators.
He has competed in the Sydney to Hobart race many times.
He was navigating during the 1998 race when a freak storm hit off the coast of Eden.
Will’s yacht was upended by a giant wave.
He and his crew found themselves trapped upside down for five long minutes, before another wave pounded them back upright, then broke the mast.
He’s also raced around the world 5 times, including the 10 months he spent sailing the wrong way round, against the winds, while skipper to a crew of sailing amateurs.
Cornell attended secondary school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, for four years, beginning in 1917, the year in which his father died of leukemia. Cornell’s formal education ended when he graduated from Andover in 1921, at which time he returned to live with his mother, who had moved from Nyack, New York, with Cornell’s younger brother, Robert, to Queens. In 1929 the Cornell family moved into a home at 3708 Utopia Parkway in Flushing, Queens, where Cornell would remain, rather reclusively, for the rest of his life.
From 1921 to 1931 Cornell worked in Manhattan as a salesman for a textile company in order to help support his family. After hearing about Christian Science from a coworker, Cornell began to read the works of its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, ultimately converted to the religion in 1925, and regularly attended services at a local church. His job in the city also exposed him to a new range of possibilities in the arts. Working in Manhattan gave him the oppo