Notes

Preface

1.  The measurements used in the book are nautical miles for distance and knots for speeds. One nautical mile is equivalent to 1.15 statute miles. A knot is equivalent to 1.15 miles per hour. In some cases, statute miles and miles per hour are also shown.

PART ONE: THE STORY OF THE AFR MIDNIGHT RAMBLER AND THE SYDNEY TO HOBART RACE

Chapter 2: The Patriarch of a Sailing Family

1.  Bill Psaltis, personal communication.

Chapter 3: Nuzulu and the Start of a Winning Team

1.  Arthur Psaltis, personal communication.

Chapter 6: The Aussie Competitors

1.  Information about Australian competitors was derived from the following books: G. Bruce Knecht, The Proving Ground (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2002); Kim Leighton, A Hard Chance: The Sydney Hobart Disaster (Minocqua, WI: Willow Creek Press, 1999); Rob Mundle, Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race (Sydney: International Marine McGraw-Hill, 1999); and Debbie Whitmont, An Extreme Event: The Compelling, True Story of the Tragic 1998 Sydney-Hobart Race (Sydney: Random House Australia, 1999).

Chapter 7: Sayonara—The Big Yank Tank

1.  Information about Larry Ellison and Sayonara was taken from Matthew Symonds, with commentary by Larry Ellison, Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2003); Mike Wilson, The Difference between God and Larry Ellison: Inside Oracle Corporation (New York: Harper, 2003); and Knecht, Proving Ground.

2.  Symonds, Softwar, p. 311.

3.  Ibid., p. 305.

4.  “I Never Ever Mooned Larry Ellison,” Sailing World, March 14, 2003.

5.  Symonds, Softwar, p. 315.

Chapter 8: Uncertain Weather—Buster or Bomb?

1.  Information from this chapter was derived from sources including Preliminary Report on the Meteorological Aspects of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race, (Australia: Bureau of Meteorology, February 1999); New South Wales State Coroner's Inquest, 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race—Testimony and Evidence, April 2000; “Storm Warning,” Vanity Fair, May 1999; Knecht, Proving Ground.

2.  Speech by John Mooney, Sydney to Hobart Race Awards Ceremony, January 2, 1999.

Chapter 10: Sayonara—The Best Professional Sailors on the Planet

1.  Information for this chapter derived from Knecht, Proving Ground, and Symonds, Softwar.

2.  Symonds, Softwar, p. 312.

3.  Knecht, Proving Ground, p. 24.

4.  Symonds, Softwar, p. 316.

5.  Ibid.

Chapter 12: Sayonara—Temporary Humility

1.  Symonds, Softwar, p. 317.

2.  Ibid., p.318.

Chapter 14: AFR Midnight Rambler—Hard or Squishy?

1.  Arthur Psaltis, personal communication.

2.  Chris Rockell, personal communication.

Chapter 15: VC Offshore Stand Aside—A Twist of Fate

1.  Interview with Ian Moray, Coroner's Inquest.

Chapter 16: Rescue from the Sky—Angels on Winches

1.  Kristy McAlister, personal communication; Coroner's Inquest.

Chapter 17: AFR Midnight Rambler—Hell on White Water

1.  Interview with Darryl Jones, Coroner's Inquest.

2.  Statement from Darryl Jones, Coroner's Inquest.

Chapter 19: Sword of Orion—Out of Control

1.  Material from this chapter derived from Coroner's Inquest and interviews with Rob Kothe, Steve Kulmar, and Adam Brown.

Chapter 20: General Mayday—An Official Catastrophe

1.  Statement from John Hope Gibson, Coroner's Inquest.

Chapter 22: Sayonara—Tack the Boat

1.  Information in this chapter derived from Symonds, Softwar; Knecht, Proving Ground; and “Storm Warning,” Vanity Fair.

2.  Symonds, Softwar, p. 320.

3.  Knecht, Proving Ground, 2nd edition, (LasVegas, NV: Amazon Encore, 2011), p. 257.

4.  Symonds, Softwar, p. 321.

5.  Ibid.

Chapter 24: Sayonara—A Thousand Years

1.  Mundle, Fatal Storm.

2.  Leighton, A Hard Chance, p. 241.

3.  Ibid., p. 243.

4.  Symonds, Softwar, p. 321.

5.  Ibid.

Chapter 25: Go the Rambleñ

1.  Ed Psaltis, personal communication.

PART TWO: CRITICAL STRATEGIES FOR TEAMWORK AT THE EDGE

Chapter 28: Introduction to the Strategies

1.  Roger Hickman, personal communication.

Chapter 29: The Research Challenge

1.  Phil Rosenzweig, The Halo Effect…and Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers (New York: Free Press, 2007).

2.  Michael Raynor, et al., “Are ‘Great’ Companies Just Lucky?” Harvard Business Review, April 2009.

3.  Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life (New York: WW Norton & Company, 2001).

4.  B.F. Skinner, “‘Superstition’ in the Pigeon,” Journal of Experimental Psychology 38:2 (April 1948), pp. 168-172.

5.  “Medical Studies’ Claims Irk Profession's Skeptics,” Wall Street Journal, July 12, 1993.

Chapter 31: Team Unity

1.  Ed Psaltis, personal communication.

2.  Geoff Smart and Randy Street, Who: The A Method for Hiring (New York: Ballantine, 2008), p. 168.

3.  Psaltis, ibid.

4.  Smart and Street, Who, p. 168.

5.  Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman, X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed (Boston: Harvard Business School, 2007).

Chapter 32: Prepare, Prepare, Prepare

1.  Michael Bencsik, personal communication.

2.  Dennis Connor and John Rousmaniere, No Excuse to Lose: Winning Yacht Races (New York: WW Norton & Company, 1978).

3.  Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009).

4.  Ibid., p. 103.

5.  Michael Useem, The Leader's Checklist: 15 Mission-Critical Principles (Philadelphia: Wharton Digital Press, 2011).

6.  John Rousmaniere, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, 3rd edition (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999).

7.  General Richard Natonski, personal communication.

8.  Richard S. Lowery, New Dawn: The Battles for Fallujah (New York: Savas Beatie, 2010).

Chapter 33: Balanced Optimism

1.  Ed Psaltis, personal communication.

2.  Malcolm Park, personal communication.

3.  Kenneth Kamler, Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004).

Chapter 34: Relentless Learning

1.  R.B. Shaw and Dennis N.T. Perkins, “Teaching organizations to learn,” Organization Development Journal 9:4 (1992).

2.  John Wukovits, American Commando: Evans Carlson, His WWII Marine Raiders and America's First Special Forces Mission (New York: Penguin, 2009).

3.  Neville Crichton, personal communication.

4.  Malcolm Park, personal communication.

5.  Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University.

Chapter 35: Calculated Risk

1.  Jane Spencer and Cynthia Crossen, “Why Do Americans Believe Danger Lurks Everywhere?” Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2003.

2.  Don Mays, “FurnitureTip-over KillsTwo-Year-Old,” Consumer Reports, September 21, 2010; http://news.consumerreports.org/safety/2010/09/furniture-tip-over-kills-2-year-old-1.html.

3.  “How Americans Are Living Dangerously,” Time, November 26, 2006.

4.  Andrew Sutherland, “Why are so many people dying on Everest?” British Medical Journal, (2006) 333:452.

5.  Barry D. Watts, Clausewitzian Friction and Future War (Washington, D.C.: McNair Papers/National Defense University, 2004).

6.  Eric S. Toner, Creating Situational Awareness: A Systems Approach, white paper prepared for a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, June 10, 2009.

7.  Sharon Begley, “Afraid to Fly after 9/11, Some Took Bigger Risk—in Cars,” Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2004.

8.  Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (New York: Little Brown, 2005).

9.  Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011).

10.  Frederick Funston and Stephen Wagner, Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating a Risk Intelligent Enterprise (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010).

11.  Chris Rockell, personal communication.

Chapter 36: Stay Connected

1.  “Time Is on Your Side,” http://blog.bitly.com/post/22663850994/time-is-on-your-side, accessed May 8, 2012.

2.  Ibid.

3.  Chris Rockell, personal communication.

4.  Michael Bencsik, personal communication.

Chapter 37: Step into the Breach

1.  Ed Psaltis, personal communication.

2.  Arthur Psaltis, personal communication.

3.  Ed Psaltis, ibid.

Chapter 38: Eliminate Friction

1.  Malcolm Park, personal communication, italics added.

2.  Bob Thomas, personal communication.

3.  Gordon Livingstone, personal communication.

4.  Michael Bencsik, personal communication.

5.  Livingstone, ibid.

Chapter 39: Practiced Resilience

1.  Samantha Byron, personal communication.

2.  Bob Thomas, personal communication.

3.  Ed Psaltis, personal communication.

Chapter 40: Tenacious Creativity

1.  Ed Psaltis, personal communication.

2.  Arthur Psaltis, personal communication.

3.  Tom Barker, personal communication.

A Note to the Skipper

1.  Rakesh Khurana, Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004).

2.  Adrienne Cahalan, personal communication.

3.  Samantha Byron, personal communication.

4.  Michael Bencsik, personal communication.

5.  Ed Psaltis, personal communication.

6.  T.A. Kolditz, In Extremis Leadership: Leading as if your Life Depended on It (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007).

7.  Bencsik, ibid.