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 [...]
THE BIRTH & EVOLUTION OF THE STAR
The first Stars were built in 1911. In 1906, there appeared in Manhasset Bay and on Long Island Sound a little keel one-design called the Bug.The Bug lines were drawn by Curtis D. Mabry in William Gardner's office. Another young designer working there at the time was Francis Sweisguth, who was later to draw the lines of the Star. After five years of racing in the Bugs, George Corry and others came to the conclusion that these boats were too small and uncomfortable to become popular as a serious long-term proposition. He went back to his friend William Gardner and asked him to produce a design for a boat of the same type but a little larger The new design was ...
2009 Baxter Bowl Results
July 2, 2009 | Comments Off | Race Results
“Who is this fellow North and how does he do it?”
April 16, 2003 | No Comments | Biography
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)
April 16, 2003 | No Comments | Biography
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, [...]
