Pete,

there you go using the word talent again. Do you really think that the top sailors all are born with some ability you and I dont have? Or did you really mean skill? I think that if we look at the background of all top sailors, we will find a long career with years on the water both racing and training. It is the time spent training and working on the sport that makes them winners, in my opinion. Ambition or perhaps more accurately, motivation, is certainly part of the formula that makes them winners. But this was not my point here, I was looking more for why the word talent have been used so much.

As Simon say, sometimes we dont know why we do what we do, and go faster becouse of it. But I dont see anything confirming the "talent" theory there. It's just that our subconscious remember something which is applied and works. The same can be said if you dont know why you do stupid things also <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />