Team Spirit Life and leadership on one of the world's toughest yacht races

by Hall, Brendan

• ISBN13: 9781408157237
• ISBN10: 1408157233
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-15
• Publisher: Adlard Coles

Summary

Team Spiritis 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 challengea thirty-five-thousand-mile circumnavigation of the globe contested by amateur crews in identical racing yachtsa thrilling test of endurance, skill, focus, and determination. The 2010 winner was led by the youngest and least experienced skipper in the race, twenty-eight-year-old Brendan Hall, and his crew in Spirit of Australia.This book is Hall's story and readers will learn how his phenomenal win was no accident, but the culmination of expert training, skilled navigation, and an innate leadership quality well beyond his years. Drawing on heretofore untested skills and courage, Hall also heroically came to the aid of an injured skipper in a competing yacht during the race and guided both boats across one of the most feared oceans in the world in the middle of a North Pacific hurricane! Hall's brutally honest, no-holds-barred account is revealing and instructive and resonates with valuable lessons in leadership, management, life lessons, and perseverance.

Author Biography

Brendan Hall began sailing at the ago of four in his home waters off Brisbane, and was just 28 years old when he skippered Spirit of Australia to victory in the Clipper Race 2009/2010. But despite being the youngest and least experienced skipper in the contest, the win was no accident-it was the culmination of relentless training skilled navigation and a leadership study way beyond his years.

Table of Contents

Route map	p. 8
Foreword	p. 10
Preface	p. 12
Leadership	p. 14
The only real training for leadership is leadership
The Race	p. 16
Every artist was first an amateur
Inspiration	p. 20
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do
Preparation	p. 24
To be prepared is half the victory
Team Spirit	p. 44
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself
Training	p. 54
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit
Racing At Last	p. 70
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success
Judgement	p. 101
A man should learn to sail in all winds
Attitude	p. 128
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference
Persistence	p. 143
No great achievement is possible without persistent work
Danger	p. 165
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea
Full Circle	p. 205
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves
Epilogue	p. 223
The crew of Spirit of Australia	p. 229
Appendix: The entire text of my Team SPIRIT vision	p. 233
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