Star Class News: Human Interest

July 2017 News

Racine 79th Anniversary Year awards

Human Interest | - Author: Tony Herrmann - July 19, 2017
Racine YC is presenting Wednesday night special awards to Star sailors

June 2017 News

Danish Hero - Paul Elvstrom

Human Interest | - Author: SSL - June 29, 2017
Celebrating 50 years since he won the Star Worlds

March 2017 News

William P. (Bill) Ficker 1927-2017

Human Interest | - Author: Stephen A Van Dyck - Sailing Scuttlebutt - March 14, 2017
William P. (Bill) Ficker quietly sailed his last voyage alone at age 89 on March 13, 2017. Bill was a “tall” man, in structure, stature, professional life, and in the yachting world. He was a real yachtsman in the...

Florus R. “Skip” Black 1944-2014

Human Interest | - March 08, 2017
With a lifelong love for baseball and a passion for yacht racing, Florus “Skip” Black III was a man of routine who loved to laugh. He enjoyed things like westerns and watching the Tigers, and he was also a Frank Sinatr...

January 2017 News

Richard Slayter 1931-2016

Human Interest | - Author: L Austell Slayter - January 05, 2017
Richard Melvin, “Dick”, Slayter, is remembered by his family and friends as a man who impacted countless lives in countless ways. Richard was the only child of Henry Sands and Enid Reese Slayter. Originally from Glenda...

December 2016 News

Eight Bells: Herbert Hild, Life Member

Human Interest | - Author: Storm Trysail Club - December 26, 2016
Herbert A. Hild, winning yachtsman, sailmaker and family man, dies at 88. He passed away peacefully at his home in Rye, NY on December 11, 2016. Herb was born on August 10, 1928 in City Island, NY, where he grew up in the vib...

Jane Lawrence 1922-2016

Human Interest | - Author: Family of Jane Lawrence - December 06, 2016
Jane-Elizabeth Crusoe Lawrence passed away on November 30, 2016. She was born December 24, 1922 in Hollywood CA to Walter R. Crusoe and Lydia Schaeffer Crusoe. She was a great granddaughter of Luther Reeves Wallace. Her father was...

November 2016 News

Bill Solomons 1933-2016

Human Interest | - Author: J. Bruce Stennard, from AFLOAT Magazine - November 17, 2016
When Bill Solomons passed from our midst in September. he left the sailing world in mourning, for he was not only one of Australia's finest racing helmsmen but also a gentleman of the first rank. Those who had the privilege of...

October 2016 News

Helge Spehr named District 13 Secretary

Human Interest | - Author: iSC - October 31, 2016
Helge Spehr has sailed out of Segler-Vereinigung Kiel, Germany for about 45 years. He also often sails in regattas of the Kieler Yacht Club (KYC), Norddeutscher Regatta Verein (NRV, Hamburg) and VSaW (Verein Segelhaus am Wannsee, ...

Jacques Puissegur 1937 - 2016

Human Interest | - Author: Olivier Godefroy - October 20, 2016
Jacques Puissegur has left us on October 19, 2016, and a page is being turned. Besides his lovely wife Aline, Jacques had two passions. First, the STAR! Long time a Star sailor, from Algiers (Algeria) with his father in the late 4...

September 2016 News

Ann Beach, Life Member 1927-2016

Human Interest | - September 28, 2016
Ann Dandridge Franklin Beach, longtime Annapolis, Maryland resident, sailor, computer pioneer, and wife of Rodney V. Beach, former head of the Key School in Annapolis, passed away on August 28, 2016, in Smithfield, Rhode Island, a...

Richard Sands 1929 - 2016

Announcements | Human Interest | - Author: Hornell Evening Tribune - September 14, 2016
Richard Sands, 86, passed away peacefully Wednesday (Aug. 31, 2016) with family by his side following a long illness. Richard was born Nov. 18, 1929 in Auburn, NY. Growing up in Skaneateles, he developed a passion for all things s...

Donald Gray 1931 - 2016

Human Interest | - September 03, 2016
New Haven, Connecticut attorney Donald A. Gray, Jr., 84, died July 9, 2016. He was life member #61 of the Star Class. Born in Bronxville, NY, attorney Gray graduated from The Hotchkiss School, Class of 1950, and Yale University, C...

August 2016 News

Chris Rogers 1950 - 2016

Human Interest | - August 16, 2016
Theodore Christopher Rogers was born in Ithaca, New York, February 6, 1950. A 1974 graduate from Cornell University, Chris spent the first part of his life in Miami, Florida as a Boat Broker, Equitable Agent, and sailor. He moved ...

Joe Duplin, World Champion 1934-2016

Human Interest | - Author: Star Class - August 08, 2016
Joseph Duplin, of Winthrop, Massachusetts, a Star World Champion, died August 7, 2016. He "did the impossible" in 1963 winning both the North American Championship and the World's Championship within a single three week s...

July 2016 News

John M. MacCausland 1933 - 2016

Human Interest | - Author: John MacCausland - July 25, 2016
John M. MacCausland, known to most of the Star community as Big Mac, passed away on Saturday, July 23, 2016. Big Mac was more than just a Star sailor. It has been said that, "Big Mac was the Star Class." He was passionate about it...

USA’s National Sailing Hall of Fame Inducts Ficker and Burnham

Human Interest | - Author: NSHOF - July 11, 2016
The National Sailing Hall of Fame (NSHOF) today announced the nine people who will make up its 2016 class of inductees which includes the legendary sailing champion (Star Worlds, Congressional Cup and America’s Cup) Bill Fic...

May 2016 News

J. J. Bracony, Brazilian Star Sailor of 1948

Human Interest | - Author: Darke de Mattos - May 19, 2016
Nowadays, Stars in Rio de Janeiro waters are a flamboyant glamorous class, but it was not always so. The class owes its cradle to two characters: Joao Jose Bracony, known by his friends as JJ and the Emperor of Japan....

March 2016 News

Jim Allsopp 1943-2016

Human Interest | - Author: Sailing Scuttlebutt - March 14, 2016
Sailing industry leader Jim Allsopp died after a 4 year battle with brain cancer on March 12 in Annapolis, MD. Jim was 72 years of age. Jim Allsopp was a sailing legend who has personally and professionally influenced many sailors...

January 2016 News

Franco de Denaro 1926-2016

Human Interest | - January 20, 2016
Franco de Denaro Has Left Us. The news of the death of Franco de Denaro leaves a great void in the world of Sailing. Born in Zara in 1926, with his strong and proud personality, he lived as a great helmsman and dedicated at l...

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