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Through Isler Sailing International, America’s Cup veteran and well-known television personality Peter Isler provides a variety of services including:

Latest News:  Peter recently was the celebrity host for a corporate event on San Francisco bay for Aflac.  This summer, he will be competing in races in the U.S. and Europe aboard a variety of boats.

America's Cup  Peter was in Valencia, Spain for the 2007 Cup.  Serving as navigator for the  BMW Oracle Racing Team, Peter sailed in his fifth America's Cup campaign.  After the team was eliminated in the Semi Finals,  Peter changed hats and served as expert analyst and commentator for VERSUS Network's tv coverage of the Louis Vuitton Cup Finals and the America's Cup.   Congratulations to Ernesto Bertarelli, Ed Baird and Alinghi which won the Cup 5-2 in some incredibly close racing over Team New Zealand.

   View Sail.tv's America's Cup navigator feature on Peter here. 

Now in its 2nd Edition!: Check out 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.

Record Passages!   Peter navigated 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 new race record of 6 days 16 hours in the Transpac Race (Los Angeles to Hawaii).  Recently Peter navigated John MacLaurin's 52 foot sloop, Pendragon to first in class in the 2008 Newport Beach - Cabo San Lucas Ocean race.  Peter was tactician aboard Bob Towse's 66 foot sloop Blue Yankee, which was first to finish and first overall in the 2007 Marblehead to Halifax Race. 

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.  Over the past few years, Peter has worked closely with Nick refining Expedition into a powerful and versatile Windows based tool which he uses in all of his big boat racing.  Visit the Expedition web site for more information.

Peter is a regular participant in the Bitter End Yacht Club's annual Pro-AM event in the British Virgin Islands. This event is unique in the sport of sailing and there is no better place for a watersports' oriented vacation than the Bitter End. 

      Peter navigated 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!   

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