Straulino Memorial Trophy

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The Straulino Memorial Trophy

Awarded to the boat with the best total score without discards after the first four completed races of the World Championship

 

The Straulino Memorial Trophy is awarded to the team that has the best total score after completing four races at the Star World Championships, dedicated in memory of Agostino Straulino. The trophy is awarded after four races in honor of the four championships that Straulino achieved in one season, 1952, racing his Star boat.

Beyond Stars, Agostino Straulino was a lifelong man of the seas, Naval Officer in two countries (Dalmatia and Italy), underwater assault/demo expert, mine-sweeper, 5.5 meter World Champion, One-Ton World Champion, and the first Gold Star to sail in a Transpacific Yacht Race (but not the last).

Known as the dominant Star sailor of the fifties, Straulino compiled an impressive record with his crew, Nico Rode, in Championship and Olympic competition: Eight consecutive European Championships between 1949-1956; three Worlds wins in 1952,1953, again in 1956; Olympics in 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, winning a Gold and a Silver in Star, and a 4th in the 5.5 meter. The year 1952 made for a unique Star sailor four-peat, Italian National Champion, European Championship, Worlds Gold Star and Olympic Gold, unlikely to ever be repeated. And, Straulino should have won Gold at the ’48 Olympics as well, were it not for an intentional dismasting by an opponent from another country 100 meters from the finish and a knowingly unjust judge’s decision.

Perhaps unique in the annals of Star history, Agostino served as an Italian naval officer for the duration of his competitive sailing career. In a strange twist, he won the 5.5 meter Worlds in Naples, IT, while commanding a 264 strong crew on the famous Tall Ship, the Amerigo Vespucci, with his sailors lining the ship decks and cheering him on. The Amerigo Vespucci has often been called the most beautiful sailing vessel in the world and is now a UNICEF Sailing Ambassador.

Never too old to win, he won the Italian Masters Regatta five years running 1997-2002, only stopping at age 88. Agostino ultimately retired from the Italian Navy with the rank of Admiral, named a Cavaliere of the Nation by the President of the Republic and an affectionate titled conferred on him, “Lord of the Seas, Magician of the Wind.”

YEAR	BOAT	SKIPPER	CREW	FLEET	ENTRIES	LOCATION	RESULTS
2025	#8452	Nick Heuwinkel	Jesper Spehr	KF	101	Split, Croatia	Results
2024	#8550	Paul Cayard	Frithjof Kleen	WSFB	64	San Diego, CA, USA	Results
2023	#8489	Max Kohlhoff	Ole Burzinski	KF	96	Scarlino, Italy	Results
2022	#8525	Diego Negri	Sergio Lambertenghi	VE	84	Marblehead, MA, USA	Results
2021	#8567	Diego Negri	Frithjof Kleen	VE	82	Kiel, Germany	Results
2020	Not sailed
2019	#8509	Augie Diaz	Henry Boening	BisB	63	Porto Cervo, Italy	Results
2018	#8210	Jorge Zarif	Guilherme de Almeida	GuB	60	Oxford, MD, USA	Results
2017	#8317	Eivind Melleby	Josh Revkin	NOR	70	Troense, Denmark	Results
2016	#8465	Augie Diaz	Bruno Prada	BisB	72	Miami, FL, USA	Results
2015	#8397	Torben Grael	Guilherme De Almeida	Gua	39	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Results
2014	#8443	Augie Diaz	Arnis Baltins	BisB	87	Lake Garda, Italy	Results
2013	#8490	John MacCausland	Phil Trinter	CR	66	San Diego, CA, USA	Results
2012	#8471	Iain Percy	Andrew Simpson	SO	72	Hyeres, France	Results
2011	#8397	Mark Mendelblatt	Brian Fatih	TaB	41	Perth, Australia	Results
2010	#8371	Iain Percy	Andrew Simpson	SO	73	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Results
2009	#8187	Hamish Pepper	Craig Monk	NZL	86	Varberg, Sweden	Results
2008	#8266	Diego Negri	Luigi Viale	VE	104	Miami, FL, USA	Results
2007	#8107	Xavier Rohart	Pascal Rambeau	NI	62	Cascais, Portugal	Results
2006	#8157	Hamish Pepper	Carl Williams	NZL	66	San Francisco, CA, USA	Results

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