Mavericks & Merlins
Sailors And Renegades Leave Shore, What About You?
Will be published approx. on 9. December 2021
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-64225-122-7 (ISBN)
Description
How A Talented Attorney Took His Passion To Win From The Courthouse To Offshore Yacht Racing.
In 2017, attorney Chip Merlin got more than he bargained for when he accompanied a friend on a sailboat race to Cuba. He didn't know it then, but his life would never be the same. The racing bug bit hard ... really hard. Right after the Cuba regatta, Chip bought a thirty-two-foot boat to start racing in the Tampa Bay area. Soon, however, sailing locally in Florida waters wasn't enough. He wanted to take his dad on the Newport to Bermuda race, reliving the days when they once raced small sailboats together.
Chip needed an oceangoing speedster for the Bermuda race. He discovered that Merlin, an iconic racing yacht, was up for sale. He'd read about the boat in 1978 when he was in college after Merlin set a record for the Transpacific Yacht Race from California to Hawaii. Impressed, Chip vowed to buy the boat if he ever could. Fast-forward thirty-nine years, and the boat became Chip's.
With the help of a friend with offshore ocean racing experience, Chip found the right crew, and the push was on to get Merlin ready to race in 2018. What followed was a season of steep learning curves, hard knocks, triumphs, danger, tragedy, and joy in a riveting story that blends high-seas adventure with thoughtful self-reflection on life at home and in the boardroom.
In 2017, attorney Chip Merlin got more than he bargained for when he accompanied a friend on a sailboat race to Cuba. He didn't know it then, but his life would never be the same. The racing bug bit hard ... really hard. Right after the Cuba regatta, Chip bought a thirty-two-foot boat to start racing in the Tampa Bay area. Soon, however, sailing locally in Florida waters wasn't enough. He wanted to take his dad on the Newport to Bermuda race, reliving the days when they once raced small sailboats together.
Chip needed an oceangoing speedster for the Bermuda race. He discovered that Merlin, an iconic racing yacht, was up for sale. He'd read about the boat in 1978 when he was in college after Merlin set a record for the Transpacific Yacht Race from California to Hawaii. Impressed, Chip vowed to buy the boat if he ever could. Fast-forward thirty-nine years, and the boat became Chip's.
With the help of a friend with offshore ocean racing experience, Chip found the right crew, and the push was on to get Merlin ready to race in 2018. What followed was a season of steep learning curves, hard knocks, triumphs, danger, tragedy, and joy in a riveting story that blends high-seas adventure with thoughtful self-reflection on life at home and in the boardroom.
Reviews / Votes
When Chip Merlin bought one of the most famous racing yachts in American history in 2017, he had no idea that the adventure would serve as a metaphor for what makes an effective business leader. As a longtime attorney specializing in representing clients in property claim disputes against their insurance companies, he understood what it took to build a successful law practice. Sailing a superfast seventy-one-foot yacht to victory on the racecourse ... not so much.Yet that's what Chip did. With no offshore ocean racing experience, he bought Merlin, put together a winning team, and sailed the boat to victory in major international yacht races in 2018. In doing so, he affirmed that the best practices in effective leadership lead to wins in business and on the racecourse, proving that teamwork makes the triumphs possible and that no CEO can carry the day alone.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Charleston
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64225-122-7 (9781642251227)
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E-Book
10/2021
Simon + Schuster LLC
€12.85
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Person
CHIP MERLIN is founder and president of Merlin Law Group, one of the largest national firms representing and advocating for policyholders in disputes against their own insurance companies. Having advised CNN, Fox News, Fox Business News, and local television outlets around the country, Merlin has been dubbed "the Babe Ruth of Hurricane Claims" and "the Master of Disaster" in the press.
Former chair of the Bad Faith Litigation Group for the American Association for Justice, he is a preeminent insurance attorney and consumer advocate with a focus on commercial and residential property insurance claim disputes and bad faith insurance litigation. His long-running blog helps consumers with their claims.
When not taking on big insurance companies, Merlin, a former marathon runner, can be found racing sailboats.
Former chair of the Bad Faith Litigation Group for the American Association for Justice, he is a preeminent insurance attorney and consumer advocate with a focus on commercial and residential property insurance claim disputes and bad faith insurance litigation. His long-running blog helps consumers with their claims.
When not taking on big insurance companies, Merlin, a former marathon runner, can be found racing sailboats.
Content
FOREWORD PREFACE INSPIRED SERENDIPITY DREAMS TEAMWORK VICTORY NEWPORT MACKINAC RETROFIT TRANSPAC APPENDIX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS