Jake, It turns out we shared a mutual friend and so I spoke with Stuart at length a year later. The way he accomplished this was to head to the bar at Severn Sailing Assn, the premier dinghy club in Annapolis and home of his Soling fleet and hold court.... his chief competitor would come in and argue with him..... He opined about what HE did wrong... and right and not what xxx did in the fleet. The fleet sat around the bar and soaked it all up... (those hard to read Sailing world articles would come from just this kind of post race debrief).

There is a HUGE amount of wisdom that we could benefit from.