Ocean racer, TV presenter, motivator, team builder

Pete Goss' career began in 1978 when at 16 he won his first offshore race. Since then he has sailed over 200,000 nautical miles; competed in seven classic international events; skippered Hofbrau Lager in a circumnavigation of the globe the `wrong way' against the prevailing winds and currents in the British Steel Challenge 1992/93.

In every venture Pete has always been among the first three place winners. Pete combines a ferocious will to win, `competitive tenacity' as fellow yachtsman Chay Blyth describes it - with the mental and physical discipline of a Royal Marine.
His awards include the Royal Naval Sailing Association's Trophy for outstanding seamanship and the Sir Alec Rose Trophy for most outstanding single handed achievement of the year, this for sailing into second place in class in the Carlsberg Single handed Transatlantic race on Cornish Meadow, an extreme catamaran and the smallest at 26ft to cross the Atlantic east to west.

In 1983 Pete became skipper of the Royal Marines training yacht. In 1990 he was appointed training development manager for the British Steel Challenge, responsible for training every single prospective amateur crew volunteer for the 1992/93 race. His training responsibilities continue and he has taught over 150 amateur sailors the skills required to circumnavigate the globe the `wrong way'.

Pete is a skilled communicator - in seminars, at public events, and with the media in general. Judy Hill of BBC TV has commentated: "He proved himself able to talk to camera and record his daily duties in a style which made a valuable and inspirational contribution to our coverage of the race."

Pete has also turned his training skills to outside consultancy for a number of companies running management development and team building courses. Eileen Moran AIX Marketing Manager for IBM United Kingdom Ltd. commented : "Pete's determination to meet the training objectives set by IBM,combined with his sensitive approach to the individual needs of the participants resulted in our most successful management team building course."

He has a record of competitive excellence that includes four transatlantic and two round the world races. The most recognized being the 1996/7 Vendee Globe non-stop single-handed round the world yacht race in his Open 50 yacht 'Aquq Quorum'. It was this race that included the dramatic rescue of fellow competitor Raphael Dinelli for which Pete has been awarded the MBE by HM The Queen and the Legion d'Honneur by the French President.

Most recently Pete gathered together the team and sponsors that enabled the construction of the world famous giant catamaran 'Team Philips'; a five year long project that ended with the sad loss of the boat, but thankfully not the crew, in a freak mid Atlantic storm December 2000.

Always leading from the front Pete is recognized as someone who can put teams together and make things happen, sometimes against seemingly impossible odds. Working on the cutting edge of technology his teams have to be both complex and diverse. Their skills and responsibility range from design to build, sponsorship, PR and of course the adventure itself.

Pete is a very effective motivational and after dinner speaker.