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

by Brendan Hall

Publisher:

Adlard Coles

, 2012

Overview

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.

Key Features

Wonderful writing - engaging, unsparingly honest and really bringing home what it’s like in extreme conditions.
Crew dynamics, equipment failure, hurricanes, rescues and the race to victory provide gripping subject matter.
Lessons in leadership summarised at the end of each chapter (such as techniques in enabling the team to take responsibility and lead themselves - empowering for the crew in the race, and enabled Brendan to rescue another yacht)
Global appeal - crews recruited from all over the world, Brendan is Australian, and his convoy of rescued yachts sailed into San Francisco to a huge welcome.
Foreword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston.

Praise for Team Spirit

This book offers a rare insight into the adrenaline-fuelled world of ocean racing

Product Details

• Title: Team Spirit: Life and Leadership on One of the World's Toughest Yacht Races
• Author: Brendan Hall
• Publisher: Adlard Coles
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 240
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781408158654, 9781408187999, 140818799X, 1408158655
• Resource ID: LLS:9781408158654
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T09:57:01Z

About the Author

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.