• Motivational Speaking

• Corporate Team-Building Events     

• Sailboat Racing

• Television Talent and Production

• Books and Writing

• Current events:  Peter's next motivational presentation and appearance will be for 3M Canada's sales incentive program taking place in San Diego in early April.  Currently Peter is developing the curriculum for a webinar on Performance Sailing Software featuring Expedition which he will be teaching for NorthU this April.

• Upcoming Sailing: Peter will be sailing aboard the 90 foot maxi, Rambler in the Caribbean 600 which starts off the island of Antigua on February 19.  There's more Caribbean racing for Peter on classic JClass boats (135 feet!) later in the spring.

• 25th Anniversary America's Cup:   On February 4th 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.

•  Motivational Speeches:  In November, Peter gave his two most recent motivational speeches, the first to over 250 doctors and executives at Sheridan Healthcare's Leadership Academy in Miami Beach and the second to a group of attorneys in his home town of San Diego.  Next up is a motivational speech for 3M Canada in April.

• Rescued at Sea! During the infamous Fastnet Race last summer, 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 ACTV broadcast team covering the America's Cup World Series events in Plymouth, UK (September). and San Diego (November).   He also co-hosted the SD event's opening press conference with his friend and basketball Hall of Famer, Bill Walton.    Check out the innovative coverage of the exciting AC 45 racing on Youtube's America's Cup Channel.

• New Book released:  Peter Isler's Little Blue Book of Sailing Secrets (Wiley, 2011) was released earlier this year. 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.

• 2011 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 to Larry Ellison, Russell Coutts and the BMW Oracle Racing Team which won the 2010 America's Cup and brought the Cup "home".

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!   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.  Recently, Peter was tactician aboard Rambler100 when it set the record in the 2011 Caribbean600 - and followed that up by setting a record in the 2011 Around Block Island 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 this web site 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!