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Crew, Coaching & Leadership
FirstShift intelligence on crew development, offshore coaching, leadership, watch systems, team performance and progressing sailors.


Is the best business school cold, wet and moving? Why leadership is often learnt offshore
Shackleton, the 1979 Fastnet, and the management course with no lecture theatre and no dry seats, I look at the evidence.

Stuart Greenfield
24 min read


Are we seeing the end of the fully crewed offshore race?
Double-handed racing is booming but as technology replaces people, who will train the next generation of offshore sailors and I’m not biased I’ve done both?

Stuart Greenfield
14 min read


Command at sea and why it is serious
Or how being kept in the dark and fed bullshit doesn't win races

Stuart Greenfield
14 min read
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