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1958 North American Championship - Choptank River, Maryland, USA

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1958 North American Championship - Choptank River, Maryland, USA Regatta Report The following account is based on the story by Mary Swain written for the Easton Star-Democrat, with the kind permission of the author and the newspaper (Star Log 1959) Skip and Mary Etchells of the Central Long Island…
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1951 World Championship - Gibson Island, Maryland

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1951 World Championship - Gibson Island, Maryland The following results are from George Elder's book "Forty Years Among The Stars". In common with the early Logs it is interesting to note that in his results Elder does not give the yacht numbers of the boats which participated in the…
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Mary Etchells, 1951 World Champion Crew

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Mary Etchells, 1951 World Champion Crew By Ann Franklin Beach Mary Etchells is the only woman who has crewed in Stars and won the World Championship, the Western Hemisphere Championship and the North American Championship. In 1944 she and her husband, Skip Etchells, began winning races in the…
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