- Joined the Royal Air Force at the age of 17, serving for 10 years.
- Left England in 1954 in a 19-foot boat he made by himself in order to travel the world alone, after being inspired when he read the book "Kon Tiki" in 1947. Completed his first solo crossing of the Atlantic in 1954, landing in Antigua. In 1963, after 9 years, 3 boats and travels to the Atlantic, the Carribean and the Pacific Islands, Weil completed his around-the-world voyage.
- An avid amateur ham radio operator, Weil was one of the original inductees into the CQ DX Hall of Fame in 1969.
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