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title: "The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice Paperback – Bargain Price, April 1, 2014"
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# The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice Paperback – Bargain Price, April 1, 2014

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- **What is this?** The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice Paperback – Bargain Price, April 1, 2014 by julian guthrie
- **How much does it cost?** € 44.23 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    Very good but not great.
  

*by F***M on Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2016*

Overall, very good but not great.  I found it more interesting in the early part of the book, but then it began to get boring.  It goes into the politics and behind the scenes maneuvering about several episodes of the Americas Cup which Ellison was very involved in, and it's very good about how he came to be associated with this small, impoverished yacht club in San Francisco.  It's extremely good about describing the tactics during several races.  Ellison's life is described, but unfortunately he never becomes a full-color character, nor particularly sympathetic.  He remains this highly capable, highly intelligent, highly athletic, megalomaniac who has become unimaginably rich and can afford to pour a hundred million dollars of his own money into pursuing the Americas Cup, and after not winning, do it again a few years later.  The book also suffers from insufficient description of what makes one yacht faster than another, although this impression may be influenced by my engineering background.

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    Intrriguing - attention holder
  

*by H***3 on Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2019*

Well worth the read. If only for how the final challenging club was chosen. And it is truly remarkable what now goes into prep for the America' s Cup. It starts years earlier.  10 hour days.  Many more than that - for everybody.  100 people minimum.  At a minimum. Not $3 million like in Ted Turner's time, but over $100 million today. World class people only. And that is not just in the boat crews.You don't have to be a boat person to be awed and entertained by what this well researched book says.

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    And don't believe it is easy, it is very hard
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2015*

OK, disclosure: I am a member of the St Francis Yacht Club.Then the book: well written, entertaining. I learned more from the book than from my club...Larry is mesmerizing figure, maybe not the nicest man on earth, some will say an as...leBut the man is a powerful, hard charging  entrepreneur. And don't believe it is easy, it is very hard, he could have failed hundreds of times. But he did not and never gave up.We raced against him when he had Sayonara. I have a lot of respect for Larry.

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