Racing

The ExploCrowd Team is racing together, sailing regattas on Wednesdays as often that time allows.

When racing, it is the teamwork and the good spirit on the boat that matters. It is about full concentration, adrenalin and being able to respond quickly to threats and opportunities. It is about optimising the performance on each individual on the boat, train together to learn about the strengths and weaknesses of each other so everyone instinctively know where they can contribute when something goes wrong. Because something always goes wrong, such as a sail that could be trimmed a little better a twisted spinnaker, and you have to be prepared for that through ‘training for chaos’.

On certain boats, you can have someone at the helm shouting at the crew, but usually the outcome is bad spirit on the boat and a poor performance - however, to us the road to the target is the priority. It is more important than reaching the target with all means necessary, living up to one of our core values that is integrity.

It is never the person on the helm winning the races. One person can never do it alone. It is when all team members are equal, focused on performance, communicate well, are on the outlook for opportunities and better wind - that is when the boat is performing best. It is when you get the perfect tack, that you feel team satisfaction and little touch of happiness. It is worth fighting for.

We have no problem admitting that we are not top three, and we probably don’t want to pay the price of being there in time and money, but we are there when the competition make mistakes - and we’ll race in StavangerSeilasen Business as defending champions, doing our best to win the beautiful trophy and have it to stay in our office for the next year too.