Summary of Brendan O’Shannassy's Superyacht Captain

By IRB Media

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#1 I was a child who was allowed to do as I pleased, and I enjoyed it. I was raised in a middle-class family in Australia, and I was always at the yacht club looking for someone to sail with. I met Michael, another young beachside vagrant, and became inseparable friends.

#2 I was playing Australian Rules Football for the local club, the Rockingham Rams, when I met Michael. We became friends, and I felt a sense of belonging with his gang of tough kids. I could move between worlds and be the unseen connector between them.

#3 The time stamp of your home town always stays with you, even long after it stops being a feature in your life. In 2014, I was in Monaco to meet colleagues and three children of Rockingham were also staying in the Fairmont Hotel.

#4 I meekly joined my colleagues in the Monaco Yacht Club the morning after the night in the Fairmont. We had met to conduct a pre-meeting rehearsal before we took the helicopter to Nice airport for the Aeroflot flight to Moscow. We were presenting to a client the technical details supporting a €300 million yacht that was soon to begin construction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822564060

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was a child who was allowed to do as I pleased, and I enjoyed it. I was raised in a middle-class family in Australia, and I was always at the yacht club looking for someone to sail with. I met Michael, another young beachside vagrant, and became inseparable friends.

#2

I was playing Australian Rules Football for the local club, the Rockingham Rams, when I met Michael. We became friends, and I felt a sense of belonging with his gang of tough kids. I could move between worlds and be the unseen connector between them.

#3

The time stamp of your home town always stays with you, even long after it stops being a feature in your life. In 2014, I was in Monaco to meet colleagues and three children of Rockingham were also staying in the Fairmont Hotel.

#4

I meekly joined my colleagues in the Monaco Yacht Club the morning after the night in the Fairmont. We had met to conduct a pre-meeting rehearsal before we took the helicopter to Nice airport for the Aeroflot flight to Moscow. We were presenting to a client the technical details supporting a €300 million yacht that was soon to begin construction.

#5

The America’s Cup is a yacht race like no other. It is theater, and it has victory, defeat, skulduggery, underdogs, titans, warriors, heroes, and villains. It transformed my home town of Fremantle and shaped my life.

#6

I had a busy schedule in school, sports, and work. I still found time to explore the newly completed Royal Perth Yacht Club Annexe and the transformed fishermen’s harbour. I was hooked on yachting. I had applied to join the Royal Australian Navy, but the recession only got