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2009 5th District Championship / Baxter Bowl 06/20/2009 - 06/21/2009

2009 Baxter Bowl Results

2009 Baxter Bowl Results

July 2, 2009 | Comments Off | Race Results

Report by Paul Cayard:
Last Thursday, Danny, Allie and I departed San Francisco on board the TP 52 Flash formerly Atalanti and raced to Catalina Island off Long Beach. It was a windy first 20 hours running under fractional gennaker down the California coast. With the wind peaking at 30 knots and boat speed in excess [...]

“Who is this fellow North and how does he do it?”

These were the opening words of the LOG account of the 1949 World’s Championship, in which Lowell North’s North Star crossed the finish line first four times and second once, but was disqualified from one race. This astounding performance at the age of nineteen provoked the quoted question from a startled Star world, and Lowell [...]

Malin Burnham (Starlights, May, 1970)

In 1945 two young Star sailors served notice on the yachting world that a new generation of racing talent had arrived on the California scene. They were Malin Burnham, aged 17, and his still younger crew Lowell North, who together won the last of the World War II “skipper series” World’s Championships at Stamford, Connecticut, [...]