Born To Win: A Lifelong Struggle To Capture the America’s Cup by John Bertrand As Told to Patrick Robinson

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly tail edge. Light foxing to top foredge. A partial tear to the dedication page as if the pages were not sufficiently separated at original purchase. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine. Small tear to top front cover now protected by book tape. Binding is still excellent.

All his sailing life, John Bertrand, Skipper of Australia II, has been obsessed with winning the America's Cup. He describes all the yachting struggles leading to his 1983 success at Newport, beginning with his job as a young crewman on the 1970 challenger Gretel II. (Trove)