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– You cannot win a championship on day one, but you can lose it Jesper Radich – Bearing on Sailing
February 28, 2026 · 34 min · 301 views · Frogner, Oslo
What this video covers
Jesper Radich, a Danish professional sailor who skippered Formula X to the ORC World Championship in Tallinn in 2025, discusses his career arc and his philosophy on building high-performance sailing teams.0:04 He traces his path from cruising on his parents' Folkboat at age one, through Optimist racing — finishing 11th at the World Championship out of 180 boats — to the Europe dinghy, then into match racing in the mid-1990s.3:35 He joined the Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub's match racing center at Skåsehoved, assembled a team, and won the World Match Racing Tour in 2003, after which America's Cup teams began responding to his emails.10:10 He describes the six-month process of assembling the Formula X team as a model for rapid team-building.0:39 A central theme is the cultural gap in Scandinavia around paying for professional sailing services — coaching, crewing, instruction — compared to other sailing cultures where professional roles exist at every level.18:12 He argues that hiring expert coaches produces faster improvement than years of self-directed practice.20:31 The episode was recorded in Oslo ahead of a Sailor's Lounge presentation at Kongen Marina.1:38 Teams that distribute responsibility beyond the skipper, rather than centralizing it, build more durable success.13:31
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