Team Spirit
Life and Leadership on One of the World's Toughest Yacht Races
1st Edition
Published on 21. June 2012
240 pages
978-1-4081-5864-7 (ISBN)
Description
Team Spirit is a gripping account of a race on the edge, and a young skipper's determined journey to victory. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is the ultimate long distance challenge - a 35,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe, contested by amateur crews in identical racing yachts - and the winners are those who keep their focus the longest.
The 2010 winner was 28-year-old Brendan Hall and his crew in Spirit of Australia. Although Brendan was the youngest and least experienced skipper in the race, the win was no accident - it was the culmination of years of training, skilled navigation and a leadership style way beyond his years.
The 2010 winner was 28-year-old Brendan Hall and his crew in Spirit of Australia. Although Brendan was the youngest and least experienced skipper in the race, the win was no accident - it was the culmination of years of training, skilled navigation and a leadership style way beyond his years.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-5864-7 (9781408158647)
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Person
Brendan Hall began sailing at the age of four in his home waters off Brisbane, and was 27 years old when the 2009/10 Clipper Race began. He transformed a motley crew of 18 amateur sailors into a race-winning sailing machine, as well as battling hurricane conditions and gear failure, and rescued two other yachts in the North Pacific Ocean.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Route map
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 LEADERSHIP: The only real training for leadership is leadership
- 2 THE RACE: Every artist was first an amateur
- 3 INSPIRATION: First say to yourself what you would be
- and then do what you have to do
- 4 PREPARATION: To be prepared is half the victory
- 5 TEAM SPIRIT: If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself
- 6 TRAINING: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit
- 7 RACING AT LAST: Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success
- 8 JUDGEMENT: A man should learn to sail in all winds
- 9 ATTITUDE: Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference
- 10 PERSISTENCE: No great achievement is possible without persistent work
- 11 DANGER: He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea
- 12 FULL CIRCLE: It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves
- Epilogue
- The crew of Spirit of Australia
- Appendix: The entire text of my Team SPIRIT vision
- Plate Section
