Star Class Honoring the Past, Leading the Future
April 10, 2024The Organizing Authority for the Eastern Hemisphere Championship is pleased to announce that the International Governing Committee of the ISCYRA has granted test event status to try a change to STCR 31.1.4 - comonly know as "no outside assistance" - where it will be trialed. The change in the rule has been outlined in the NOR Section 14.9 and will allow coaching under the specified conditions during the event. With this test the OA believes to have found an appropriate way to allow Star sailors to benefit from the availability of a coach on the race course without making it another arms race.
Coaches will be required to be available for a group of sailors, will need to provide additional support to sailors not originally affiliated with the group and help with towing and other security emasures as mandated by the Race Committee.
Entry for coaches is open at this link
Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions regarding the test event status to either Helge Spehr or Arnd Glunde
Author: EHC Organizing Authority - May 24, 2024The Heinz Nixdorf Verein (HNV) is happy to subsidize a waiver of the late entry fee for the upcoming EHC.Despite hesitant entries and the threat of the event being canceled, 28 top teams already registered for the Eastern Hemisphere Championship in Eckernförde.Calling upon starboat teams especially from the south of Europe for which the trip to North-Germany is already a hefty invest in fuel, the HNV hopes to raise the interest in the Baltic-Sea Double header comprising of the EHC from the 2nd to the 6th of July and the International German Championship in Travemünde two weeks later.Entry for the EHC remains open at: https://ehc.starchampionships.org/entry/optionsand for those interested in the International German Championship the entry is possible via Manage2Sail: https://www.manage2sail.com/de-DE/event/a0456f76-ddfd-493d-8f95-3a9243cf1faf#!/entries?classId=abaf854d-0da2-4c26-8e7b-405fa5eae327This note changes the NOR 4.4 (deleted) 5.2 (replaced with: 5.2 Junior (U30 both helm and crew) entry fee is USD 150.) and 5.4 (deleted). See Notice Board Change of NoR #1.For the OAHelge Spehr Arnd Glunde2nd Vice President Europe Secretary Kieler Fleet
Author: Rachele Vitello - July 07, 2024The 2024 Star Eastern Hemisphere Championship has crowed its winners, Marin Misura and Tonko Barac are back in Croatia with another Silver Star, after claiming their first one last year at the 2023 Eastern European Championship in Warnemunde, Germany.
“We were here, in the North of Europe from the warm coast of Croatia also last year, and after winning we promised we would never come back into this cold and tough weather, but as you can see, we couldn’t restist, and we are glad we did, as it was a very nice Championship”, commented Tonko Barac at the prize giving ceremony at the Eckernförde Yacht Club.
Four days of racing planned ended up in just two sailing days, the first one with two races in and the last one, yesterday, with three races completed. Misura / Barac have undoubtedly the best scores: two bullets, a second and a fourth allowed them to skip the final race today. Second overall, and first U30 team, Daniel Fritz and Michael Oberwegger from Germany, after a bad start (23) they recovered with a 5th as worst result. Bronze medal goes to the reigning Star World Champion, Max Kohlhoff sailing with Steyn van Driessel. Former Class President closes the three best Germans in fourth overall sailing with usual crew Kilian Weise, they close the series with two wins. A well deserved fifth place for the European Vice President for Europe Tom Lofsted (SWE) with Brazilian crew Samuel Gonçalves.
The conditions have been Northern-Europe-tough, with stormy strong winds blowing on the racecourse, so hard that two days got canceled, but the sailors were happy nonetheless thanks to the warm hospitality of the Yacht Club and organizers.
