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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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Birth of the Modern Star, Skip Etchells


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SKIP ETCHELLS AND THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN STAR based on conversations with Bill Buchan and Jane Lawrence Skip Etchells played an important part in birth of the modern Star. In college he studied naval architecture and when World War II began he went to work in Seattle in the shipbuilding industry. ...
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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 World...
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