Star Class Honoring the Past, Leading the Future
Swedish Championship Star Class 2020
The SwedishChampionship was sailed in Gottskär on the Swedish west coast September 19-20.
Host club was SS Kaparen and their crew did a very good job in the trickyconditions. Due to covid 19 the championship was re-scheduled from June toSeptember. Despite the virus 19 stars came to start.
The regatta was sailed in rather light conditions, 5-8 knots, and especially on Sunday the wind was patchy with many shifts, but all the seven scheduled races were
sailed.
Tompa Löfstedt with crew Johan Tillander totally dominated the regatta and with the series 1,1,1,1,3,1, DNS they ended up 14 points ahead of the Danes Lars Hendriksen/Jan
Eli. Third in the regatta, but second in the championship was four-time-OK-dinghy-World champion Bo-Staffan Andersson who made come back in the class after a ten-year break, sailing with Michael Brood. Third in the championship was Emil Bengtsson, son of former Finn Olympian and star sailor Ingvar Bengtsson. Emil, sailing with Philip Carlsson, just came back with a 10thplace in the Laser class at Kiel Week. Emil and Philip won the Junior Trophy.
The Swedish star class is happy to see some older sailors coming back to the class as well as some younger sailors, new to the class. They also showed us that you can perform well with older boats.
GP 2
