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1996 North American Championship - Wilmette, Illinois, USA

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1996 North American Championship - Wilmette, Illinois Regatta Report - Courtesy of Brian Moloney, Pioneer Press newspaper This 1996 North American Championship was started with a light onshore breeze which gave the race committee some headaches before settling. After one short postponement, the…
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1995 North American Championship - Galesville, Maryland, USA

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Regatta Report Attracting A Galaxy of Star Sailors By Angus Phillips, Washington Post – Sunday, October 19, 1995 Last time Paul Cayard, Rod Davis, John Kostecki and Vince Brun were together was in San Diego last spring, racing for the America’s Cup. What brought them now to this humble…
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1993 North American Championship – San Diego, California, USA 

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1993 North American Championship – San Diego, California, USA  Regatta Report By Neil MacDonald  The day after the first race of the 1993 North American’s, one of the local newspapers made much of the fact that six of the top seven spaces had gone to local…
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A Sailors Perspective

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A Sailor's Perspective Bill Buchan Bill Buchan (USA) Olympic gold Medal Star Class World Champion "The Star attracted me as a youngster because of a strong "hero worship" on my part for an older group (but still young) of very talented Star sailors. No other Class came close in this regard.…
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1994 World Championship – San Diego, CA, USA

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1994 World Championship – San Diego, CA, USA September 7-18, 1994 The following results are from the Star Logs. Starting with 1977 frequently only yacht numbers were given. The last time both yacht numbers and yacht names were given was 1989. In later years sometimes, fleet designations…
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