Duarte Bello Trophy

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The Duarte Bello Trophy

Awarded to the winner of the third race at the World Championship.

Commodore Duarte Manuel Bello was one of the best-known Star sailors in Europe and travelled the globe for more than 40 years representing Portugal in multiple Championships and 5 Olympic Games. His significant contributions to the Star class include 15 years as Vice Commodore of the class, founding and continuing member of the Technical Committee and, perhaps more importantly, as the inventor of several items of Star boat equipment that have become commonplace today. 

Duarte was deep into designing and innovating equipment solutions, mostly for the Star. He always had a hand in building his five Stars, and some of them he built entirely himself. He is the originator of many Star innovations, among them a line of stainless-steel tracks and fittings, a stainless-steel open winch, the famous Bello Bailer and Bello Outhaul, the renowned circular boom vang track, opening jib reaching leads, and halyard tubes with locks.

At the 1984 Star World Championship in his home waters in Portugal, Duarte Bello was honored for his contributions to the Star class over 40 years. Those efforts ranged from his leadership as Vice Commodore & Technical Committee chair, his representation at Star events around the world, and his technical innovations that always pushed Star sailing to the next level. 

The final words at the presentation were, "We hope to have Mr. Star Boat of Portugal with his genial smile and ever-present cigar, finishing among the leaders as usual in at least the next 14 World Championships." However, we were forced to close the book on this pearl of a man in 2000, on a life well-lived.

YEAR	BOAT	SKIPPER	CREW	FLEET	ENTRIES	LOCATION	RESULTS
2025	#8550	Paul Cayard	Frithjof Kleen	WSFB	101	Split, Croatia	Results
2024	#8550	Paul Cayard	Frithjof Kleen	WSFB	64	San Diego	Results
2023	#8446	Herbert Merkelbach	Kilian Weise	UB	96	Scarlino, Italy	Results
2022	#8528	George Szabo III	Guy Avellon	SDB	84	Marblehead, MA, USA	Results
2021	#8567	Diego Negri	Frithjof Kleen	VE	82	Kiel, Germany	Results
2020	Not sailed
2019	#8234	Eivind Melleby	Joshua Revkin	ISOL	63	Porto Cervo, Italy	Results
2018	#8210	Jorge Zarif	Guilherme de Almeida	GuB	60	Oxford, MD, USA	Results
2017	#8509	Augie Diaz	Bruno Prada	BisB	70	Troense, Denmark	Results
2016	#8467	Augie Diaz	Bruno Prada	BisB	72	Miami, FL, USA	Results
2015	#8497	Diego Negri	Sergio Lambertenghi	VE	39	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Results
2014	#8480	Lars Grael	Samuel Gonçalves	Par	87	Lake Garda, Italy	Results
2013	#8462	Xavier Rohart	Serge Pulfe	NI	66	San Diego, CA, USA	Results
2012	#8471	Iain Percy	Andrew Simpson	SO	72	Hyeres, France	Results
2011	#8459	Eivind Melleby	Petter Morland Pedersen	NOR	41	Perth, Australia	Results
2010	#8237	Xavier Rohart	Pierre Alexis Ponsot	NI	73	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Results
2009	#8187	Hamish Pepper	Craig Monk	NZL	86	Varberg, Sweden	Results
2008	#8107	Xavier Rohart	Pascal Rambeau	NI	104	Miami, FL, USA	Results
2007	#8107	Xavier Rohart	Pascal Rambeau	NI	62	Cascais, Portugal	Results
2006	#8156	Andy Horton	Brad Nichol	NB	66	San Francisco, CA, USA	Results
2005	#8127	Robert Scheidt	Bruno Prada	Gua	52	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Results
2004	#8028	Mark Neeleman	Peter Van Niekerk	Med	102	Gaeta, Italy	Results
2003	#8141	Fredrik Lööf	Anders Ekström	Bk	83	Cadiz, Spain	Results
2002	#8109	Torben Grael	Marcelo Ferreira	Gua	103	Los Angeles Harbor, CA, USA	Results
2001	#8065	Gavin Brady	George Iverson	NZL	105	Medemblik, Netherlands	Results
2000	#8015	Joe Londrigan	Mark Strube	LS	112	Annapolis, MD, USA	Results
1999	#7876	Ross Macdonald	Kai Bjorn	EB	129	Punta Ala, Italy	Results
1998	#7779	Vincent Hoesch	Florian Fendt	CBM	95	Portoroz, Slovenia	Results
1997	#7657	Eric Doyle	Brian Terhaar	SDB	71	Marblehead, MA, USA	Results
1996	#7787	Jose Doreste	Javier Hermida	Barc	61	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Results
1995	#7835	Ross Macdonald	Eric Jespersen	EB	76	Laredo, Spain	Results

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