Engineering Speed: How Angelo Guarino Climbed the Fleet

Podcast: Sailfaster: The Podcast For Racing Sailors · Pete Boland

Opublikowano: 2025-12-01

My guest today is my good friend Angelo Guarino — aeronautical engineer, US Sailing Regional Judge, J/105 sailor, and one of the most analytical, hard-working racers in Annapolis. Angelo didn’t grow up sailing. He started racing in his 30s, got hooked instantly, and has spent the years since climbing steadily up a fiercely competitive one-design fleet. In this episode we talk about: How he identifies whether problems come from the boat, the skipper, or the crewWhy obsessing over the basics — clean bottom, fair foils, proper weight placement — changed everythingHis “maniac” philosophy of small, continuous improvementsWhat it takes to build and ret...