Ragamuffin man
Subtitle: the world of Syd Fischer
By: David Salter
Publisher: Black Inc. books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Carlton, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781863958882
Subjects: Businessmen; Biography; Real estate developers; Yacht racing
Description: In 1938 a knockabout 11-year-old kid from Marrickville Sydney, is suddenly confronted by mortality. His mother dies. His father has little time for him and at 14 he leaves school to learn a trade. In 2016 that same boy is a multimillionaire. He owns - and runs - the Australian Development Corporation, Sydney City Marine, a host of associated companies and countless office and housing blocks. He is also on of the world's most successful sailors, having won Sydney-Hobart races in his Ragamuffin yachts and completed eight times for Australia in the Admiral's Cup. He jointly holds the record for the most America's Cup campaigns - all self-funded and managed personally. He is Syd Fischer, The Ragamuffin man, and he's known as perhaps the toughest and most uncompromising Australian business-man and sportsman of the past half century.