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Terry steering Quantum Racing to victory in 2008
Here are some of the things that Terry covers in the 8 minutes of interview:
Concept of Team
You need: work ethic, different personalities, and skill level - probably in that order of priority.
Everyone needs a solid work ethic, you need personalities that complement each other, and you need some Chiefs and some Indians, about a 30:70 ratio.
The Quantum afterguard
"When I look at the afterguard of our boat, you probably couldn't find more diverse peronalities than me, Morgan Larson [tactician], Ian Moore [navigator] and Mark Mendelblatt [strategist]. I always feel we need a good balance of personalities, for when things aren't going well. Everyone's happy chappy when you're winning, but when you're not winning is when you need to continue to move the thing forward."
Picking a whole team of the very best sailors could be a disaster...
"There are a lot of really good sailors but I'm pretty sure if you write down the best sailors and stick them on a boat together, they won't do very well. If you have a stubborn personality, and everyone else is the same, you might win but it'll be hard."
Leadership
"Someone's going to have to lead and someone's going to have to follow, and it's a matter of how you lead that will get people to jump off the bridge when the time comes."
Opposites can work together
"Morgan and I are opposite people. If i can work all day for 18 hours, then I will. Morgan has the same drive but he's more relaxed. Nothing would faze him, except when I got up tight!"
It was a belter of a leg. With a forecast for 30kts on the nose and wind against tide, the Gibraltar Strait provided a sharp focus for the leg from Cascais to Alicante.
For the Oman Sail campaign for the Tour Voile, skipper Rob Greenhalgh was tasked with training up three inexperienced Omani sailors as part of the crew. Using this Excel spreadsheet, Rob got his sailors into top form in the shortest time. To get the Omanis up to scratch in every aspect of their jobs on board, Greenhalgh divided every routine, every manoeuvre - both inshore and offshore - into the tiniest detail. Now you can benefit from Rob's experience and apply it to your own sailing. For anyone looking to organise complex manoeuvres between a crew, this document is gold dust.
Nik Pearson won the Etchells World Championships doing the bow for skipper Stuart Childerley and Simon Russell working the mainsheet. Every team is different in its make-up of skills, but there are some good general principles of communication here that will work for any sailor looking to improve teamwork in the boat.
