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1967 North American Championship - Toronto, Canada

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1967 North American Championship - Toronto, Canada Regatta Report By William H. Lynn, Jr. The story of the 1967 North American Championship was Alan Holt's from beginning to end. He was moving faster and sailing better than anyone else at Toronto and when the last winner's gun was shot and...

1966 North American Championship - Cleveland, OH, USA

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1966 North American Championship - Cleveland, OH, USA Regatta Report Report from 1967 Star Class Log by William Parks Cleveland Yachting Club- Rocky River, Ohio- Central Lake Erie Star Fleet 1966 North American Championship- Races- Parties- Races- Ah! What a week! Beautiful! Many of us have fond ...

1971 North American Championship - Biscayne Bay, FL, USA

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1971 North American Championship - Biscayne Bay, FL, USA Results 1971 NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP - BISCAYNE BAY Place No. Name Skipper Crew Fleet Daily Places Pts. 1 5635 Neguinho Joerg Bruder Claud Biekarch Gua 1 ...

1965 North American Championship - Oxford, MD, USA

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1965 North American Championship - Oxford, MD, USA Regatta Report by Mary Swaine  John Albrechtson, of Gotenburg, Sweden, won the 1965 North American Silver Star championship at Oxford, Maryland, with a 14-point lead over William Parks of Chicago, his nearest rival.  Racing the fir...

1964 North American Championship - Galveston Bay, TX, USA

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1964 North American Championship - Galveston Bay, TX, USA Regatta Report All preparations for the 1964 North American Championship were carried out ably and efficiently by the Galveston Bay Fleet and the Houseton Yacht Club. Facilities were first rate, lines and courses excellent, and the bree...

1963 North American Championship - Rye, NY, USA

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1963 North American Championship - Rye, NY, USA Regatta Report Leading from first mark of the opening race Joe Duplin of Boston stayed ahead of 61 other Star sailors and won the North American Star Championship by 34 points in a five-race series ending Aug. 30. Duplin, an M.1.T. sailing instructor ...

1962 North American Championship - Puget Sound, WA, USA

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1962 North American Championship - Puget Sound, WA, USA Regatta Report by Harold C. Halsted  The 1962 North American Star Championship was sailed on beautiful Puget Sound north-west of the city of Seattle, with Mount Rainier, seventy miles away and the World's Fair Space Needle, somewhat ...

1970 North American Championship - Rockport, MA, USA

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1970 NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP - ROCKPORT, MA 1970 CHAMPIONSHIP OF NORTH AMERICA By Peter Watson The 1970 North Americans will long be remembered. By many for Durward Knowles' sailing: three firsts, a second and a third. By some for its controversies: Joe Duplin's light...

1961 North American Championship - Toronto, Canada

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1961 North American Championship - Toronto, Canada Regatta Report Richard I. Stearns, of the Wilmette Harbor Fleet, has won so many Star honors that he himself cannot remember them all. Last year he became the first skipper ever to hold two North American Silver Stars when he successfully de fende...

1960 North American Championship - Milford, CT, USA

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1960 North American Championship - Milford, CT, USA Regatta Report by E. Chester Peet, 1961 Star Log Winning the 1960 North Americans at Milford, Connecticut, took a brand of consistency that no one was able to demonstrate except Dick Stearns. It made him a member of the highly select group who ha...

1959 North American Championship - Chicago, Illinois, USA

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1959 North American Championship - Chicago, Illinois, USA Regatta Report by Gary Comer, 1960 Star Log  For good reasons, I didn't care to write this account; but when the editor of the LOG insisted, for better reasons, I couldn't say no. It is an extremely personal story of a great se...

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...

1957 North American Championship - Newport Harbor, CA

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1957 North American Championship - Newport Harbor, CA Regatta Report Report from Starlights October 1957 Lowell North and Jim Hill burst into prominence eight years ago when they confronted an astonished Star public with three firsts and a second in the 1949 World's Championship at Chicag...

1956 North American Championship - Vermilion, OH

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1956 North American Championship - Vermilion, OH Regatta Report by William H. Lynn, Jr. The 1956 North American Silver Star Championship is now history; but no participant or spectator at Vermilion will soon forget the superb performance turned in by Howard Lippincott and Nelson Macan as they sail...

1955 North American Championship - Rye, NY

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1955 North American Championship - Rye, NY Regatta Report by Chas. E. Lucke, Jr, Courtesy of YACHTING Magazine Young Jorge and Carlos de Cardenas, Jr., from Havana, sons of the reigning Star Class work champion, added the North American Star championship to the family trophy room in a grueling fiv...

1954 North American Championship - Rockport, MA

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1954 North American Championship - Rockport, MA Regatta Report by L.M. Fowle, courtesy of YACHTING Magazine The International Star Class Y.R.A. crowned a new North American Champion when John H. Van Dyke’s Sea Skate from Milwaukee earned the title by a paper thin edge. The series, under the ...

1953 North American Championship - Milwaukee, WI

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1953 North American Championship - Milwaukee, WI Regatta Report In a slam-gang series of five races in Milwaukee, Robert Lippencott and William Norris defeated a fleet of 29 of the best American Star sailors in the game to win the 1953 Championship of North America. This series, held only in years ...

1952 North American Championship - Toronto, Canada

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1952 North American Championship - Toronto, Canada Regatta Report by Helen Marth, Courtesy of YACHTING Magazine Lake Ontario Canadian Fleet and Royal Canadian Y.C. were hosts to 31 top flight Star skippers August 28-30 in the North American Championships, held on Lake Ontario off Humber Bay. The ...

1948 North American Championship - Puget Sound, WA

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1948 North American Championship - Puget Sound, WA The North American Silver Star Championship, sailed on Puget Sound in August 1948, was won by Charles and Robertson Ross in their 11-year-old home-built Cene, the oldest boat in the competing fleet. This was the second time the event has been held,...

1939 North American Championship - San Francisco, CA

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1939 North American Championship - San Francisco, CA Sumner Wins Silver Star Championship by Leo Benzini The first North American Championship was held in 1939 at Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay in conjunction with the 1939 World Fair. The contestants were housed and fed at Treasure Island in...