• Motivational Speaking

• Corporate Team-Building Events     

• Sailboat Racing

• Television Talent and Production

• Books and Writing

• Andrew "Bart" Simpson (in memory):    The sailing world lost a great champion and a fine individual on San Francisco bay this week.  Condolences to his family and loved ones.  Life is precious - cherish every day.

• Upcoming events: Peter will be rejoining George David and the Rambler  team for a full schedule on the east coast of the US this summer.  First up in the Around Block Island Race on Memorial Day weekend, where the team will try to break the record they set two years ago.  Stay tuned for book signing and other event news.

• Recent TeamBuilding Event:  A few weeks ago, on Captiva Island, Florida,  Peter participated in and gave the closing presentation at a sailing teambuilding event for senior executives of the Forestar Group.

• Recent Motivational Speeches:  Peter recently returned from Buenos Aires where he was the keynote speaker at KPMG's Iberoamerica Tax Summit.  Here's a video interview Peter gave at that event.  Peter recently gave presentations in Salt Lake City at Intermountain Healthcare's Leadership Seminar, the American Ireland Fund's Fall Reception in Los Angeles, and the US Naval Academy's 2013 Safety at Sea Course. 

• Sailing news: Earlier this spring, Peter sailed aboard the 60 foot trimaran LoeReal in the Newport to Ensenada Race.  The big multihull was first to finish in only 7 hours and 3 mins - and just missed the course record.   Last September, Peter was the Mystery Guest at the famed E Scow Blue Chip regatta on Lake Pewaukee, Wisconsin.  Last March, Peter was at the helm of Jim Clark's incredible 130 foot long J Class sloop Hanuman at two events in the Caribbean.   At the St. Barth's Bucket, four J Class boats raced together for the first time in 80 years!

• Another Record Falls!: Last summer, the Rambler team, with Peter calling the shots, finished first and broke the course record in the world's oldest ocean race - the Bermuda Race - Newport, RI to Bermuda.   The 90 foot sloop Rambler sailed the 635 course in under 40 hours, at an average speed of over 16 knots... breaking the previous record by over 13 hours!Here's a video of that record passage produced by Rambler teammate, Carl Williams.

• Another Emmy Award!:  Last May, VERSUS Network won an Emmy Award for its America's Cup Highlight Show and Peter was recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences as a Commentator for that show.  For Peter it was the second time he's been on an Emmy winning team.

• 25th Anniversary America's Cup:   Last winter, at San Diego Yacht Club, Peter and many of his teammates including skipper, Dennis Conner, celebrated the 25th anniversary of Stars & Stripes  victory in the 1987 America's Cup races in Perth, Australia.  ESPN produced a one hour special on the event that was aired on the same day. It was great to celebrate the memory of that amazing team and event.

• Rescued at Sea! During the infamous Fastnet Race of 2011, Peter and his 20 teammates aboard Rambler100 survived a dramatic capsize when the boat's keel fin fractured and the 100 foot carbon fiber race boat overturned 30 miles off Ireland's southwest coast.  Five crew were swept away in the strong currents and spent three hours in 56 degree water.  Thanks to the combination good preparation, some quick thinking and heroic effort by Peter and his shipmates, the diligence of the Irish Coast Guard, the skills of the  volunteer crew of the RNLI's Baltimore Lifeboat, and a leprechaun's pot-full of luck, the story has a happy ending.   Here's Peter's account written a day after the accident and published in Scuttlebutt, and a podcast of an interview recorded the same day by Sailing World. Here's some pictures from the day.

• America's Cup television: Peter was back behind a microphone as part of the Emmy Award Winning ACTV broadcast team covering the America's Cup World Series events in Plymouth, UK (September). and San Diego (November) in 2011.   He also co-hosted the SD event's opening press conference with his friend and basketball Hall of Famer, Bill Walton.    The next America's Cup is right around the corner,  in San Francisco this summer.  Good luck to Larry Ellison, Russell Coutts and all the Oracle Team USA in keeping the Auld Mug in the USA.

• New Book released:  Peter Isler's Little Blue Book of Sailing Secrets (Wiley) has been a big hit. In it Peter shares his extensive knowledge and recounts some of the highlights of his life as a professional sailor. It is a classic collection of tips, lessons, and entertaining sea stories. Peter does book signings whenever his schedule allows.

• Maxi Sailing: Peter joined George David's Rambler racing team for the 2011 season, sailing the world's fastest ocean going monohull - Rambler 100 (ex-Speedboat) in races on both sides of the Atlantic. The season started fast, with a victory and a new course record in the Caribbean 600 (600 miles in just over 40 hours)! The team's winning ways have continued up north with another victory and course record in the Around Block Island Race.  They capped that success with a record setting run across the Atlantic in the Transatlantic Race 2011 from Newport, RI to England.  The passage took just under 7 days at an average speed of 16.7 knots - the fastest speed ever recorded for a boat racing in a race across the Atlantic.  The team's season came to a dramatic end with a loud bang when the keel fin fractured as Rambler100 was seemingly on track to set a record in the legendary Fastnet Race sailing across the Irish Sea on the homeward leg to Plymouth.

• Keynote Accolades:   Recently, Peter travelled to Houston to give a motivational presentation to the executive team at Loomis US earning high marks from President & CEO Jarl Dahlfors:

• Here is the link to a recent Economic Times article on Peter's book "At The Helm, Business Lessons for Navigating Rough Waters" (which was released this year in India) and the connection between success in business and sailing. 

• America's Cup  Peter has competed in five America's Cup campaigns, winning it twice with Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes team.  In the 2007 Cup in Spain, he served as navigator with Larry Ellison's BMW Oracle Racing Team. In 2009 and 2010 Peter sailed with the British TeamOrigin. Peter has also served as television analyst in five America's Cups (ESPN, Outdoor Life Network, VERSUS Network and ACTV).  Congratulations and Good Luck to Larry Ellison, Russell Coutts and the Oracle TeamUSA racing team which brought the Cup "home" in 2010 and will be defending it this September on San Francisco Bay.

Just Released! Peter Isler's Little Blue Book of Sailing Secrets is bound to become a classic.  Modeled after Harvey Penick's Little Red Book (a golfing classic), in the Little Blue Book, Peter shares sea stories and lessons from a lifetime on the water.  Available at your local bookstore or online here.

Now in its 2nd Edition!: Find Peter’s best selling book, Sailing for Dummies (Wiley, co-written with JJ Isler) available at West Marine, your local bookstore or click here to order it or his other books including the acclaimed business book,  At the Helm: Business Lessons for Navigating Rough Waters (Doubleday,  co-written with Peter Economy) from Amazon.com.

Peter is Editor At Large for Sailing World Magazine the nation's premier sailboat racing periodical. Check out the latest sailboat racing news with great links to regattas, weather and other marine resources at www.sailingworld.com

Record Passages!   The list continues to grow - in June, 2012 Peter was calling the shots aboard Rambler in smashing the Newport to Bermuda Race Record. This is the oldest ocean race on the planet and the Rambler team took over 13 hours off the record - average speed, over 16 knots.  In 2011, Peter was navigator aboard Rambler100 which set records in the Block Island Race, the Caribbean 600 and the Transatlantic Race 2011 (Newport, RI to England).  In the latter, the massive monohull averaged 16.69 knots for the entire passage... the fastest average speed in any Transatlantic Race ever. In 2005, Peter was tactician aboard Tom & Dot Hill's 75 foot sloop Titan, which shredded nearly 20% off the Pineapple Cup Race record.  Racing from Ft. Lauderdale to Montego Bay, in "perfect storm" conditions - Titan established a new record of 2 days, 10+ hours which could stand for a very long time!   A few months later Peter (and co-navigator Ian Moore) helped point Hasso Plattner's 86 foot CBTF sloop Morning Glory to first to finish and a race record of 6 days 16 hours in the Transpac Race (Los Angeles to Hawaii ... .Congratulations to Stan Honey, Peter's roommate at Yale who navigated Alfa Romeo to a new race record in 2009!).  Peter navigated John MacLaurin's 52 foot sloop, Pendragon to first in class in the 2008 Newport Beach - Cabo San Lucas Ocean race.  He also navigated Randall Pittman's 90 foot CBTF sloop, Genuine Risk to a first to finish in the 2008 Chicago - Mackinac Race.  

Peter is sponsored by Kaenon Polarized, simply the best performance sunglasses.

Winning Races!  Expedition, a powerful navigation and performance sailing software developed by Whitbread Around the World Race winning navigator, Nick White has had tremendous success since introduction last year.  Peter has worked closely with Nick refining Expedition into a powerful and versatile tool which he uses in all of his big boat racing.  Visit the Expedition website for more information.

Peter has long been associated with the Bitter End Yacht Club in the British Virgin Islands. He developed the BEYC's first sailing school program and is a regular participant in their annual Pro-AM event. There is no better place for a watersports' oriented vacation than the Bitter End. 

Peter navigated the late Roy Disney's highly successful 77 foot sloop "Pyewacket" in the 2003 Transpacific Yacht Race (Los Angeles to Honolulu).    Peter and the Pyewacket team broke the monohull record in the 2003 Newport to Ensenada Race  by nearly an hour!