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What It Takes to Race a 50-Foot Performance Catamaran - With Tom Kassberg
Tom Kassberg's the owner of Malolo , one of the fastest performance cruising catamarans in the world, with victories in the ARC and class honours at the Caribbean 600. In this episode, Tom joins Pete to unpack how he built a championship...
Tom Slingsby: Decision-Making At 80 KPH!
Olympic gold medallist, America’s Cup winner and SailGP superstar Tom Slingsby joins Sailfaster from San Francisco airport for a fascinating deep dive into what it takes to perform at the highest level of sailing. From surviving one of t...
Spite Sailing: Building an Offshore Racing Pathway for Women
Offshore racing has long been seen as one of sailing's toughest frontiers—physically demanding, technically complex, and historically dominated by men. But Emma Rosenbaum and Marianna Fleischman of Spite Sailing are working to change tha...
How Technology Has Changed Starts Forever — with Todd Wilson
GPS-based starting systems are changing sailboat racing — whether sailors like it or not. In this episode, Pete Boland talks to Todd Wilson, co-founder of Vakaros, about how RaceSense and modern GPS technology are transforming starts, pr...
From On The Rocks To On The Transat Start Line...Ambre Hasson's Journey
Ambre Hasson went from learning to sail in 2020 to completing the Mini Transat just five years later. In this episode, she shares her rapid rise into offshore racing, including losing her first boat during qualification and rebuilding he...
North U's Performance Race Week: Starts, speed and decision-making from St Thomas in the USVI!
Kristen Berry kindly invited me to take part in North U / American Sailing’s Performance Race Week in St Thomas this February; this collaborative episode is a detailed debrief of that programme. We unpack the structure of the week, the...
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