Teamwork

Each of the members of the racing team — navigator, trimmer, bowman, watch captain, and their colleagues — has a job and a specialty. To be successful, team members -- relying solely on each other 24/7 in a confined space hundreds of miles from land — must understand one another’s roles, working to avoid or solve problems, wringing the most out of the modern technological wonders that are designed into their craft.

“Every single bowman has different techniques. [But] the only way a bowman is going to look good is if the whole back-up is looking good. You’re only part of a team … there’s only one ego on the boat, and that’s the team ego.”
-- Martha McKechnie, experienced sailor

Teamwork comes from passion. If you don’t have passion about what you do, there’s no life -- it’s just a job. You’re all together in this thing, the shore team and the sailing team. If you can’t get along, you’ve got no team. But the other part of teamwork is being able to walk up and say, ‘This isn’t going well, let’s do it another way.’ And giving that guy credit for that.
— Kimo Worthington, General Manager, Puma Racing