Ragamuffin Man: The World of Syd Fischer
You either lie down and die, or you fight.
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 multi-millionaire. He owns â and runs â the Australian Development Corporation, Sydney City Marine, a host of associated companies and countless office and housing blocks. He is also one of the worldâs most successful sailors, having won SydneyâHobart races in his Ragamuffin yachts and competed eight times for Australia in the Admiralâs Cup. He jointly holds the record for the most Americaâs Cup campaigns â 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 businessman and sportsman of the past half century. This is the story of Fischerâs remarkable life, and of his unrelenting quest to win the SydneyâHobart Yacht Race one more time.