Sailfaster with Todd Wilson

Pete Boland hosts Sailfaster, a podcast series where racing sailors discuss what it takes to sail faster and how races are won. In this episode, Boland talks to Todd Wilson, co-founder of Vakaros, about how RaceSense and modern GPS technology are transforming starts, protests, race management, and training.

Todd explains why even elite sailors struggle to ping a line accurately, how RaceSense works, why starts are becoming tighter and more aggressive, how Olympic, J/70, and TP52 fleets are adapting… and why he was “happy to lose a protest” using his own system’s data.

While adding cost and complexity, these onboard tools are now within reach of all levels of the sport, and this conversation shares how we got here.