TIMECODED QUESTIONS

00:00 Intro / America’s Cup Chat

13:33 Can Pete Burling’s match racing skills meet up with the other skippers?

Special Guest Santiago Lange

15:50 Do you have a favourite type of starting?

19:01 Is being aggressive to win the pin a successful strategy?

20:15 What used to be your easiest start (before you committed yourself to learning multiple different ones)?

21:38 Starting on Port

24:11 When you’re planning out your day and looking at the weather forecast, are you already mapping out the kind of start you’re going to be doing?

25:49 How do you start well on a badly biased start line?

29:17 Can you give some advice on how to control the stalling on the boat, up to eight minutes prior to the gun?

33:42 Richard Parslow: Course geometry with regard to starting decision

39:20 How do you create space to leeward if you have to be closer to the leeward boat and not open up a gap too early and risk other boats going in there?

42:40 What is Pete Burling’s favourite kind of start?

47:01 How did it come to be that 49ers do several tacks on the starting line in the last minute, next to each other? Applicable rules change almost too fast.

48:50 Jon Emmett: creating a gap to leeward in a Laser

53:55 Do you have any other way of knowing if you are on the line without transit?

59:18 Santiago Lange: not using transits?

1:03:05 How do you replicate start line scenarios without regatta practice?