Stewart Kissel wrote:

And if you use tow release as your start with no declared
finish...can you land anywhere you please?

Yes, but for a distance task you can do that in any case, even if you
declared a finish. I also believe (but I'm not 100% certain, Judy can
correct me on this), that you can declare a start point, fly the
distance task without actually claiming the declared start, and get
credit for the distance task based on an undeclared start at the point
of release.

Marc