Sailing
at
Nice, France
Photos
by Thomas
Giorgi
& Alex Dot
Click for larger images
Rohart/Rambeau at Nice, France
Slow
conditions at Nice
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2007
Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta winners Fredrik Lööf
& Anders Ekström
Photo by Dan
Nerney/Rolex
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Announcements
The Star Class now has an online
database for members to update their membership and boat
information. All class members who have an email address at the class
office will have received an email providing their password for this
database (login is the member's last name). If you are a class member
and did not receive
your password, please select the "Email Me my Password" link on the database
entry page which will provide your password if you
have an email address on file in the Class Office. If the class office
does
not have an email address for you, please contact your Fleet Captain or
District Secretary who can update their members' information.
As a last resort, contact office@starclass.org to set up a new account.
The list
of 2007 championships can be found on the fixture list page
of the Star Class website calendar. In March are both the South
American (Mar del Plata, Argentina - March 19-25) and Western
Hemisphere (Tampa, Florida, USA - March 31 - April 5 )
Championships, followed in
April
by the Eastern
Hemispheres in El Arenal Mallorca, Spain on April 10-17.
IGC Chairman Rick Burgess has announced that the 2009
Star Class World Championship will be held in Sweden. In
2008, the Worlds are in Miami.
All updates of fleet officers should have been sent by now to the class office
and also the LOG
editor to be included in the 2007 LOG which will go to the
printer March 1st.
Racing
Results
In Italy, the Viareggio fleet had 5 races in their Winter
Championship from November 12 to December 10th, which was won
by Valerio Chinca/Massimo Chiano.
Other racing has been
concentrated this winter at
Nice and Miami. In France, Jacques Puissegur and Jean-Gabriel Charton
won the Minimee,
a warmup for the 50th Christmas Regatta. Then 34 boats sailed in the Christmas
Regatta with local sailors Xaviar Rohart and Pascal
Rambeau finishing first after a close battle with Roberto Bermudez de
Castro and Pablo Elorza Arrarte. Jean-François
Puisségur made a video of the regatta that can be
seen at
this link.
In Miami, the Levin
Memorial was the first race sailed in 2007 and was won by
Augie Diaz and Federico Engelhardt from a fleet of 35 boats. Fredrik Lööf and Anders Ekström won the next race, the Biscayne
Trophy, with the fleet growing to 58 boats. The end of
January brought the Rolex
Miami Olympic Classes Regatta (67 boats) with Lööf and Ekström winning by 18 points over Hamish
Pepper/David Giles, with Ross MacDonald/Mike Wolfs 3 points further
back.
3rd - Ross MacDonald and Mike Wolfs
(CAN)
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4th - Afonso Domingos and
Bernardo Santos (POR)
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2nd
- Hamish Pepper and David Giles (NZL) |
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