Peter Watson
“It might surprise you, but my favourite thing to do on board is the early morning watch from four to eight,” says medical entrepreneur and owner-operator Peter Watson. “I just sit, think and watch the dawn come up. Some of my best business thoughts come to me when I am out on the boat in the middle of nowhere.”
Having spent the past hour chatting to Watson on board his 26-metre motor yacht Grey Wolf there is little he could say that would surprise me at this point. From tracking polar bears in the High Arctic to sailing his previous 20-metre yacht from New Zealand to Guernsey, Watson’s tales could compete with the saltiest of sea dogs. And what makes his adventures even more impressive is that a majority of them have taken place during a period of his life when most people are thinking about slowing down.
Despite sailing as a child, Watson only returned to the water when he moved to the Channel Island of Guernsey 27 years ago. “You can’t really be in Guernsey without owning a boat,” he says. “So, I got myself a small Botnia Targa. I very quickly decided that it wasn’t big enough, so I bought
