Star (keelboat)
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The Star is a 6.9 metres (23 ft) one-design racing keelboat for two people designed by Francis Sweisguth in 1910. The Star was an Olympic keelboat class from 1932 through to 2012, the last year keelboats appeared at the Summer Olympics.
It is
History
The Star was designed in 1910 by Francis Sweisguth, a draftsman at the William Gardner Marine Architect office. Over the course of his career Sweisguth designed a variety of yachts. A more traditional example of his work is Silent Maid, a Barnegat Bay B-class catboat designed shortly after the Star. The first 22 stars were built in Port Washington, New York by Ike Smith during the winter of 1910–11. Since that time, over 8,400 boats have been built, with more than 2,000 actively racing in 170 fleets.[4]
The hull is a hard chine design with a slight curve to the bottom section, and a bulb keel. The Star was originally rigged with a large, low-aspect-ratio gunter mainsail and jib, which was replaced by a short bermuda rig gradually during the early 1920s, before the current tall bermuda sail plan was adopted in 1930. In 1965, fiberglass replaced wood as the primary hull material. Other changes to the strict design rules for the Star class, include adding flexible spars, an innovative circular-track boom vang, and self-bailers.[4]
Events
Olympics
The Star was added to the Olympic roster for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Due to World War II, there were no Olympic games held in 1940 or 1944, and for 1976, the Star was replaced by the Tempest for keelboat competition. In 2011 keelboats were removed from sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The last keelboat Olympics competition was at the 2012 London Summer Olympics.[5]
World Championships
The
Star Sailors League
The Star Sailors League was created in 2013 by athletes to establish a sustainable sailing circuit.
Famous Star sailors
- Ralph Craig (Olympic 100 and 200 meter Champion: 1912)
- Duarte Bello(Championship competitor, 1947–1970s. Invented auto-bailers and circular boom-vang track)
- John F. Kennedy (Nantucket Sound Star Class Championship: 1936)[4]
- Agostino Straulino (Olympic Champion: 1952; World Champion: 1952, 1953, 1956; Olympic Silver: 1956)
- Robert Halperin (Olympic Bronze: 1960; Pan American Games Gold: 1963)
- Paul Elvstrøm (World Champion: 1966, 1967)
- Dennis Conner (World Champion: 1971, 1977)
- Buddy Melges (World Champion: 1978, 1979)
- Iain Percy (Olympic Champion: 2008; World Champion: 2010; Olympic Silver: 2012)
- Robert Scheidt (Olympic Silver: 2008; Olympic Bronze: 2012; World Champion: 2008, 2011, 2012; SSL Finals: 2013)
- Fredrik Lööf (World Champion: 2001, 2004; Olympic Champion: 2012)
See also
- Comet (dinghy), a smaller and more easily transported sailboat, based upon the Star design
References
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- ^ a b c d "2015 Specifications" (PDF). Star Log. International Star Class Yacht Racing Association. 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-23.
- ^ "Rules of the ISCYRA". Star Log. International Star Class Yacht Racing Association. 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-23.
- ^ a b c Bird, Vanessa (March 22, 2011). "International Star Class". Classic Boat. Classic Classes. Chelsea Magazines Ltd. Retrieved 2015-08-23.
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- ^ "2004 Star World Championship" (PDF).
- ^ "Star" (PDF).
- ^ "2006 World Championship" (PDF).
- ^ "2007 ISAF Olympic Classes Worlds" (PDF).
- ^ "2008 World Championship" (PDF).
- ^ "2009 World Championship" (PDF).
- ^ "2010 Star World Championship" (PDF).
- ^ http://www.sailing.org/isaf-worlds-2011.php
- ^ "Final après jury". Archived from the original on 2012-05-20.
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- ^ https://site-isaf.soticcloud.net/regattainfo.php?view=eventoa&rgtaid=17434®attaid=17434&evntid=33373#results__17434
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- ^ http://www.starworlds2017.com/images/LarsB_Div/Resultater/R1R2R3R4R5R6_Final.pdf
- ^ https://2018worlds.starchampionships.org/
- ^ "World Championship Archives". International Star Class Yacht Racing Association.
- ^ "News". International Star Class Yacht Racing Association.
- ^ "Star Class World Championship 2021". manage2sail.com.
- ^ "2022 Star World Championship". Yacht Scoring.
- ^ https://2022worlds.starchampionships.org/
External links
- International Star Class Yacht Racing Association (ISCYRA)
- International Star Class at the International Sailing Federation (ISAF)
- International Star Class in "Classic Classes" at Classic Boat magazine
- THe Star 45 Class at the American Model Yachting Association (AMYA)