Carl Huber (54) began sailing a little late in life after realizing that many of the things he had always dreamed of were achievable. After taking several sailing courses in the Chesapeake and the US Virgin Islands, he began bareboat chartering in the Caribbean and began to formulate plans to use small sailboats to transport goods cleanly and inexpensively in support of impoverished areas like Haiti.
A circumnavigation has been a lifelong dream and Huber intends to use the Golden Globe Race to bring attention to the size and fragility of the planet and the potential to put untapped natural resources like wind to work in practical and creative ways.