Tracy Edwards relies instead on gut feeling, making judgements on potential crew within five minutes. The basic types A plant loves ideas and problem solving. Creative, imaginative and unorthodox they thrive on problems, the harder and stranger the better. There is a famous but apocryphal political story in Ireland. Dr Garret FitzGerald was chairing a cabinet.
Plants are great on vision but lousy on detail.
A plant on the crew will provide the extra urge to try a new way of getting the best boatspeed. Monitor evaluators are sober, strategic and discerning. They are generally low profile and not people of action. Weighing up alternatives and reaching a logical conclusion with reasons is their strength. They prefer to reach the right decision slowly than the wrong one quickly.