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Jimmie
Finch with the
NY
State Championship
Leading Youth Trophy
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Announcements
The last Star Class championship of 2007 is the European
Championship on Lake Garda, Italy from September 7-14. Then
it's on to the 2008
Worlds in Miami in April.
Lynn Fitzpatrick
is in Qingdao, China writing about the 2007
Good Luck Beijing Sinopec International
Regatta, a trial regatta in China one year before the 2008 Olympics.
2007 North American Championship, Vancouver, Canada
2007 Star
Class North American Champions are Andy Horton and
Brad Nichol (USA). They also provided reports on each day's racing.
Following them in 2nd were Ross MacDonald/Tyler Bjorn and George
Szabo/Andrew Scott in 3rd.
Racing Results
In Sweden, the 2007
Nordic Week/GP III Nordiska Masterskapen winners were Niklas Edler and Anders Ohlsson.
In Switzerland, the 2007
Rostige Kanne was won by Flavio and Anouk Marazzi.
In Germany, the
Alpen
Cup series was completed which is the combined results of the Zugspitzpreis,
Neuschwansteinpreis,
and the Silberstern
regattas. Winning the overall Alpen Cup was Frank Thurner and his crew
Wolfgang Schorre. Christian Paucksch and Johannes Sussbauer won the
Silberstern, Sibylle and Michael Merk won the Neuschwansteinpreis, and
Thomas Hopf and Florian Wahl won the Zugspitzpreis.
In Austria, the winners of the 2007
Ossiacher See Seggelwoche were Andreas Oehlwein and Paul Peter Samonig. The 2007
Traunsteingams was won by Franz Kloiber and Markus Gnan.
In Italy, the 26th
Trofeo Gianni Lillia winners were Diego Negri and Luigi Viale, and Alex Lanfranchi/Alessandro Cinquini won the 2007
Trofeo Carlo Giannotti.
In the Netherlands, Chris Frijdal and Rob Edens won the Internationale
Loosdrechtweek 2007.
On the USA east coast, the 2007
1st District Champions are Fotis Boliakis and Michael Nichol. The 2007 12th District Champions are Brian Cramer and Tyler Bjorn, who also won the 2007
New York State Championship (sailed at the site of the 2008 Western Hemisphere Championship in May). The 2007
Lake Sunapee Open was won by John Manderson/Roman Gotsulyak.
The 2007
D2 Lipton Cup, sailed at Oxford, Maryland, was won by John Vanderhoff and Rowan Perkins. On Lake Erie in the USA Great Lakes, Ray Peters and Don Kasper won the Spitzer
Cup.
In the USA Rocky Mountains, Paul Kresge won the 2007
Ptarmigan Regatta and the 2007
Dillon Open, while Tim Seeling won the 2007
Aspen Open.
On the USA west coast, the 2007
D5 Lipton Cup at Santa Barbara, California was won by Andy Macdonald/Brian Fatih who also became the 2007 District 5 Champions with this win.
In western Canada, the 2007
Star Point Invitational on Vancouver Island was won byAlex Fox/Dunnery Best and the 2007
6th District Championship and North Americans Tune Up winners were Ross MacDonald/Jim Vandermolen (District Championship) and Andy Horton/Brad Nichol (North Americans tune up).
2007 North
American Championship fleet
Photo by Andrew Madding/Bow Shot Productions
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