Sailing World’s most popular YouTube playlist “Listen and Learn” remains our most viewed video content on the platform. As a concept developed by Dave Reed, Sailing World’s Editor in Chief, the belief is that we often learn more though observation than being told what to do right or wrong. And what we can learn from the best is often different in the heat of race than during a practice or tuning session.
Listening to, learning from and watching great teams while they sail around the course we can better understand effective styles of communication, subtle techniques, tactics on the fly and strategy in real time from the top teams in their respective classes.
On the practice day of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in St. Petersburg in February we mic’ed up Lightning Class president, past world champion and Rolex Yachtsman of the Year David Starck, his brother Tom Starck and forward crew Becca Jordon as they won both races. The three of them hadn’t sailed before, but that didn’t seem to hold them back one bit.
Sit back, listen, learn and enjoy.
