{"id":675,"date":"2023-05-31T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T12:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themilebuildingclub.com\/?p=675"},"modified":"2025-11-30T14:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:36:59","slug":"born-to-win-john-bertrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themilebuildingclub.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/31\/born-to-win-john-bertrand\/","title":{"rendered":"Born To Win \u2013 John Bertrand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span id=\"ebooksProductTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">Born To Win \u2013 John Bertrand<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themilebuildingclub.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/31\/born-to-win-john-bertrand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The America\u2019s Cup \u2013 1983<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most <em>exciting<\/em>\u00a0 boat book ever?<br \/>\nBooks written around boats and sailing can be many things, informative, inspiring perhaps, part of a broad education even, but they are rarely edge-of-the-seat stuff. This book about John Bertrand and how he and his team won the America\u2019s Cup in 1983 is gripping stuff \u2013 it reads like a thriller.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Bertrand_(sailor,_born_1946)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Bertrand<\/a> led the Australian team that broke America\u2019s 132 year winning streak \u2013 the longest in sporting history.<\/p>\n<p>The boat, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia_II\">Australia II<\/a>, of the 12 meter class, was revolutionary with it\u2019s winged keel, the politics were nasty and the sailing intense.<\/p>\n<p>It was all a long time ago but at the time it was a near seismic event on a global scale. Yacht racing was far from mainstream until Bertrand and his team worked their magic. A wonderful book suitable for a non-specialist audience.<\/p>\n<p>It is out of print but available on Kindle and also secondhand. A brilliant read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born To Win \u2013 John Bertrand The America\u2019s Cup \u2013 1983 The most exciting\u00a0 boat book ever? Books written around boats and sailing can be many things, informative, inspiring perhaps, part of a broad education even, but they are rarely edge-of-the-seat stuff. This book about John Bertrand and how he and his team won the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[23,24,25,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themilebuildingclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themilebuildingclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themilebuildingclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themilebuildingclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themilebuildingclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/themilebuildingclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/themilebuildingclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themilebuildingclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themilebuildingclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themilebuildingclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themilebuildingclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}