Team Spirit: Life and Leadership on One of the World's Toughest Yacht Races by B

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Brendan Hall was the youngest and least experienced skipper in the Clipper Race, yet his win was no accident. His no-holds-barred account is revealing and instructive, with valuable lessons in leadership and management - as well as never giving up.

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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. 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.His skills were soon put to the test – in the middle of a North Pacific hurricane, Brendan went to the rescue of a competing yacht and skippered both boats across one of the most feared oceans in the world. This brutally honest, no-holds-barred account is revealing and instructive, with valuable lessons in leadership and management – as well as never giving up. Thrown in quite literally at the deep end, he is pushed to the limit, and learns lessons you can only learn the hard way.

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A gripping account of a yacht race on the edge and a young skipper's determined journey to victory.

Author Biography

Brendan Hall began sailing at the age of four in his home waters off Brisbane, and was racing by the age of 19. He was 27 years old when the 2009/2010 Clipper Race began, and had to transform a motley crew of 18 amateur sailors into a race-winning sailing machine, as well as battling life-threatening weather conditions, gear failure and rescuing two other yachts in the dangerous North Pacific Ocean. He is currently cruising and racing in the Caribbean.

Review

Honest, insightful, informative… Bravo. -- Pete GossRaw, gripping and brutally honest -- EconomiaI couldn't put it down! -- A brutally honest, no-holds-barred account -- Yachting Life...the book is a joy * Sailing Today *succinct and very readable...a must-read for anyone interested in sailing, or equally personal development.One of the best books I've ever read. * Lifeboat Magazine *...a compelling account..."A brutally honest, no-holds-barred account'. * Welsh Coastal Life *

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Team Spirit is a gripping account of a race on the edge, a young skipper's crash-course in leadership under gruelling pressure, and determined journey to victory against the odds.

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...the book is a joy

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Brendan Hall was the youngest and least experienced skipper in the Clipper Race, yet his win was no accident. His no-holds-barred account is revealing and instructive, with valuable lessons in leadership and management , as well as never giving up.

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Wonderful writing - engaging, unsparingly honest and really bringing home what it's like in extreme conditions

Details ISBN140818799X Author Brendan Hall Year 2013 ISBN-10 140818799X ISBN-13 9781408187999 Media Book Format Paperback Publication Date 2013-07-04 Short Title TEAM SPIRIT Pages 256 Language English Imprint Adlard Coles Nautical Subtitle Life and Leadership on One of the World's Toughest Yacht Races Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 797.14 UK Release Date 2013-07-04 NZ Release Date 2013-07-04 Illustrations A colour plate section Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audience General AU Release Date 2013-07-03 We've got this

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