Book of the Month
Here you can find a variety of recommendations about sailing books, from fascinating stories by sailors who sailed around the world to books that can help you learn something new.
Team Spirit:
Life and Leadership on One of the World's Toughest Yacht Races.
Brendan Hall is a truly inspirational man. A professional yacht racing skipper, author, leadership expert and entrepreneur. In 2009, Brendan skippered a yacht in the ultimate long distance challenge, The Clipper Round the World Yacht race - a 35,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe, contested by amateur crews in identical racing yachts.
Although Brendan was the youngest and least experienced skipper in the race, he and his team won it in convincing fashion. This achievement was the culmination of years of leadership research, creating a high-performance culture and a leadership style way beyond his 27 years.
His leadership skills were soon put to the test - in the middle of a North Pacific winter hurricane, Brendan and his crew were tasked with the rescue of an incapacitated skipper on a competing yacht. Brendan swapped yachts and skippered both vessels 4000 nautical miles, across the world’s most treacherous ocean to safety.
After completing this life changing challenge, Brendan authored, Team Spirit, a raw, insightful look into the life of a leader pushing himself and his team to perform in extreme conditions. It distils and communicates the core skills and hard-won lessons that made Brendan’s team a winning one and has had an outstanding reception from the business world, where leaders and teams face comparable challenges in their own environment.
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Skip Novak on Sailing: Words of Wisdom from 50 Years Afloat
Skip Novak is revered around the world for his sailing adventures. In this book, he brings together the sum of his knowledge and the wisdom of his experience so you can follow in his wake – or create your own.
This extraordinary collection
of articles is an important treasure
for every sailor's library
GARY JOBSON
Editor-at-large of Sailing World and
Cruising World, former President of US Sailing
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BECOME A BETTER SAILOR, NO MATTER
YOUR LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE.
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