Volume 3, No. 9 September, 2002 Class Newsletter for the 1st, 2nd and 12th Districts SEPTEMBER REGATTA SCHEDULE all the shifting of the wind, the fleet also changed positions as much. John MacCausland and Sean Delaney came 1st District through with the win and Aaron Serinis took it on the chin Sept. 7-8 Bedford Pitcher, CLIS the hardest and finished 20th. A very long day. Sept. 14-15 Nathan Hale, HB Sept. 21-22 Nutmegs, Mid Sunday dawned much like Saturday, very little wind with high humidity and temperatures. We towed out to the bay 2nd District but there was no wind and not much prospect of any. The Sept. 14-15 SSA Fall Series committee towed us back in to the river where there was a Sept. 28-29 Fall Windup, TAYC much better chance of wind inside. As the day went on the Oct. 19-20 Michelob Cup, WRSC wind slowly increased to 7 to 9 knots. With this wind the committee was able to get three races in. th 5 District John MacCausland and Sean Delaney sailed very solid to Au. 30-Sp. 1 Labor Day Pitcher Regatta, SDYC finish out with a 2–1–1 to win the District Championship. Sept. 7-8 Black Star - Under #7000, CYC Sept. 14-15 Fall Gold Cup, NHYC RESULTS (Top 5: see last month’s Stardust for the full results sheet.) 12th District 1 John MacCausland/Sean Delaney (9)-1-2-1-1 5 Pts. Sept. 7-8 FLASIR, LH 2 John Vanderhoff /Rowan Perkins (13)-5-3-7-2 17 Pts. Sept. 14-15 Lake George Open, LG 3 Barbara Vosbury/Trap Lippincott 6-4-(7)-5-3 18 Pts. Sept. 21-22 Chili Regatta 4 John LeCourt / Chris Hardin 2-2-5-12-(16) 21 Pts. 5 Aaron Serinis / Chris Brown 1-(ocs)-4-2-15 22 Pts.

2002 2ND DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP June 22-23, 2002 2002 MILLER SERIES Miles River, MD July 6-7, 2002 By John MacCausland Gibson Island, MD With 23 boats attending this year’s Districts, we had our By John MacCausland largest turnout in many years. This year’s series was We raced out in the Chesapeake Bay north of the Bay mainly a light air affair. Saturday we went out in the bay Bridge. As the day went on the breeze built to 5 - 9 mph in to race. Race one got off without a hitch. We sailed for the last race. After starting about one minute late, Trapper over 1 hour and did not reach the first weather . The Lippincott and Barbara Vosbury came back to win the race committee abandoned the race. Race one, the second in convincing fashion. version, was another light air contest. The left side paid Race 2 & 3 were sailed in just a little more wind than race big on the first beat. Aaron Serinis and Chris Brown lead one. In general the fleet stayed very close around the race at every mark to win the race with John LeCourt and Chris course in both races. John Vanderhoff and Rowan Perkins Hardin second. won the second race with John MacCausland and Sean Race 2 started with the left paying again. Aaron and Chris Delaney winning the third race. were out in the lead with many close in pursuit. As the After three races on Saturday there were 3 boats within 2 race went on what little wind there was finally died to points. Sunday dawned rainy with a good breeze from the nothing at the last mark. With the wind shutting off the east. The committee chose to in the river. Race one on next breeze came 180 degrees different then it was, still Sunday again had the fleet very close together for the very light. By the finish there was almost no wind. With 1 STARDUST September, 2002 majority of the race. As the race went on the breeze slowly 12th DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP went down. MacCausland and Delaney held on for a hard July 12-14, 2002 fought win. Seneca Yacht Club Race 2 on Sunday started with about 5 to 8 mph of wind. , As time went on the breeze got lighter and lighter until it By Rick Burgess shut down. The committee abandoned the race at the last The 12th District Championship for 2002 was hosted mark with MacCausland and Delaney in the lead. by Seneca Yacht Club on Lake Seneca, in the beautiful MacCausland and Delaney came out on top with Trapper Finger Lakes region of New York. Lake Seneca is a Lippincott and Barbara Vosbury second and Tom Price wonderful place to sail and the folks at Seneca Yacht Club and Will Wagner third. are to be commended for a job, well done.

th 2002 MILLER RESULTS The 12 district includes both Canadian and Pl Sail# Boat Skipper Crew Fleet R1 R2 R3 R4 Ttl American contestants, of which a number of 1 8068 Erin John Maccausland Sean Delaney CR 5 2 1 1 9 Canadians were vying for a berth on their Olympic 2 7425 Ice Blue Trapper Lippincott Barbara Vosbury AN 1 3 2 7 13 team. The Canadians who were racing included 3 7313 Bop Tom Price Will Wagner AN 4 6 5 3 18 Bill Abbott who represented in the Olympics 4 8038 John Vanderhoff Rowan Perkins NCB 2 1 4 raf 19 5 7939 Alexia Elliott Oldak Angelo Buscemi AN 3 ocs 3 2 20 twice in the class. Ted Haines and Larry Scott 6 7454 F2 G. Weissenberger NCB 6 5 7 5 23 represented Canada in the Olympics in the 7 7763 Arron Serinis Chris Brown AN 8 7 6 4 25 class. won two Olympic medals, silver in 8 8063 Bert Collins Wright AN 7 4 8 6 25 the and bronze in the Soling. So 9 7370 Rob Emmet Bubba Voeltner AN 9 8 9 dns 38 racing in this year’s 12th District was very competitive 10 6729 Bonita Walter Risse Meadows AN 11 9 10 8 38 11 7182 Mary Jane Sam Hopkins MES 10 10 dnf 9 41 and exciting. Because Lake Seneca experiences southerly thermals each morning in the summer, the racing 12th DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP began every day at 9:00 AM. This worked out fine as Pl. Boat# Skipper Crew Fleet R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Ttl 1 7775 Bill Abbott Scott Town Iso 1 9 4 7 1 13 we got in two races on both Friday and Saturday. Then 2 7133 Ted Haines Larry Scott LOC 2 3 5 11 4 14 on Sunday, we sailed the last race and everyone had 3 7802 Hans Fogh Dave Caesar LOC 5 1 12 15 3 21 plenty of time to pack up and enjoy the trophy 4 8013 Rick Dhein Ryan Arthur LG 3 10 11 1 7 21 presentation before getting an early start on the road 5 7592 Paul Sustronk Mike Wolf LOC 12 2 14 6 2 22 home. 6 7369 Steve Haarstick Aaron Givelber Sen 4 8 9 8 15 29 7 7726 Kevin Murphy John Finch LH 8 15 1 36 6 30 If I had known I would be writing this report, I 8 7067 William Hendershot Alain Vranderick Iso 7 5 15 14 8 34 would have taken copious notes after each race. As a 9 7626 Jim Freeeman Matt Freeman Sen 14 6 2 13 16 35 10 7793 Brian Crammer Peter Carson LOC 9 7 18 5 17 38 result, I don’t remember the play-by-play. I can tell 11 7756 Brian Murphy Alfredo Rodriguez LH 15 14 7 36 11 47 you that the sailing was tricky, but as usual, the best 12 7207 Rob Eberling Will Phipps Sen 11 19 25 20 5 55 sailors found a way to get out in front and stay there. I 13 7824 Rick Burgess Gary Schneid GrL 10 28 22 16 9 57 remember in the third race, at the weather mark, Kevin 14 8003 Darren Monster John Lazier LOC 36 36 10 2 12 60 Murphy and John Finch had a commanding lead over 15 6831 Duane DelFosse Greg Meyer Snm 36 12 17 10 21 60 16 7308 Brian McKay Jennifer Conway LOC 17 20 6 18 20 61 the entire fleet. Kevin went hard right and after much 17 7729 Tom Flinn Pat Flinn LH 20 18 16 12 22 66 prompting from his very able crew, he finally tacked. 18 7120 Jeff Schuchardt James Favaro GrL 22 13 21 36 14 70 When they got to the mark they were eight feet short 19 7998 Dave Cutler Rick Burgess Jr. GrL 21 23 20 17 13 71 of making it to which Kevin said to John “I told you 20 7940 Kirk Reynolds Dan White Sen 13 11 13 36 36 73 we should have gone further”. I also remember that in 21 6569 Brud Nicholson Ed Seyerlein Sen 23 22 28 9 23 77 22 7271 Bob Westcott Jim Christian Sen 36 36 8 19 18 81 the fourth race Rick Dhein rounded the leeward mark 23 7835 Dick Atkinson Bob Carlson Sun 16 17 30 36 24 87 in little or no wind. Then for some inexplicable reason, 24 7463 Werner Holtze Stacey Valkenburgh Sen 18 24 29 36 19 90 only he picked up a nice little breeze and just sailed 25 6880 Myron White Jack McAllister Iso 36 21 3 36 36 96 away from the entire fleet. Good job Rick. 26 6303 Bill Nutzel Bill McMahon LH 26 27 19 36 26 98 27 7060 Dave Craddock A.J. Jakubowska LOC 24 26 26 36 25 101 Ted Haines was leading and Bill Abbott was in 28 7783 Tom White Doug Carey Sen 25 25 24 36 27 101 second place going into the last race. Bill won the hard- 29 7047 Phil Haggerty Colin Baxter LOC dns dns dns dns dns 144 fought race and as a result was awarded his first Blue 30 7630 Brad Anderson Ryan Smith LOC dsq dsq dsq dsq dsq 144 31 7830 Andy Ivey John Nichol Sun dns dns dns dns dns 144 Star. A well-deserved victory Bill! 32 7927 David Ivey John Wulff Sun dns dns dns dns dns 144 We thank the members of the Seneca Yacht Club 33 7930 John Chiarella Terry Fletcher Sun dsq dsq dsq dsq dsq 144 34 David Cook Sun dns dns dns dns dns 144 who really went out of their way to make sailing there 35 Nat Cook Sun dns dns dns dns dns 144 stress-free, fun, and easy. 2 STARDUST September, 2002

2002 NED HAY RESULTS we held our position to the finish line. July 20-21, 2002 The second race started in puffy 8 to 12 Sandy Bay Y.C. knots of southerly wind and again Peter Pl Sail# Yacht Name Skipper Crew Fleet R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Pts Hall called the first beat perfectly and lead 1 7847 Rosebud Cafe John Safford Patrick Bodden CA 1 2 4 3 1 7 at the weather mark, with Andy Ivey 2 7876 Betsy Ross Doug Schofield Bob Schofield AN 7 3 1 2 2 8 second, and John Mac and me in third. As 3 7465 Kimmar Ben Cesare Rob Bowers Mid 2 4 3 1 8 10 we got to the leeward mark Andy did a 4 7728 Hayaku John Lombard Arnis Baltius Mid 3 dnf 2 6 3 14 really nice job getting inside of Peter and 5 7817 Southern Cross Jake Fiumara Joe Chambers CA 9 1 6 17 6 22 rounding first, with Hall second, and us 6 7621 Owl Peter Costa Chris Batchelor BH 6 ocs 7 8 4 25 third. The order stayed the same to the 7 7911 Brillo XII Joe Zambella Mark Sokolich BH 5 ocs 11 5 5 26 weather mark, but on the run “Lil” Mac 8 7371 Lizard King Pete Cusick Sergy Leonodiv Mid 4 9 15 7 10 30 worked his downwind magic and managed 9 7951 Dave Chittick Mike Chittick Jane's Bane V Mid 11 7 10 4 12 32 to get by Hall. The final upwind to the 10 7330 The Continental Michael Trotsky Kip Gardner CA ocs 10 5 10 7 32 finish was a little nerve racking as the 11 7963 It's About Time Bruce Engel Charles Clark CA 8 5 8 11 13 32 breeze was shifty, Ivey was covering us, 12 8052 Don't Look Back Stephen Braverman Cindy Olsen BH 10 8 9 9 11 36 and we were trying to stay ahead of Hall. 13 7265 More Pressure Josh Phypers Dave Timberlake CA 12 ocs 14 13 9 48 When we got to the finish line it was Ivey, 14 6767 Foxy John Fox Nancy Fox BH 14 11 12 12 14 49 MacCausland, Hall. 15 7555 Spunk Ed Desmarais Mark Trumbold CA 16 6 dnf 18 15 55 16 7076 One Plus Gemini Ted Engel Bruce Gowans CA 15 dnf 13 14 17 59 This was ’s first time in a Star 17 7386 Connection Jim Kubik Horst Tretter CA 17 13 16 16 16 61 and he is going to make a nice addition to th 18 6320 Even Star Ken Luczynski Warren Trafton BH 13 dnf 17 15 dnf 65 the 12 District. Peter is a past World 19 7836 Vivace Dick Kuehne Jan Walker CA 18 12 18 19 dns 67 Champion in both the Soling and Lighting Classes.

In fact, we are delighted to welcome the entire , 2002 SUNAPEE OPEN Canadian fleet to the 12th District. August 3 & 4, 2002 By We also want to thank the race committee for a well-done Richard Burgess job. We all know that without your work, there would be no racing. Thanks again to the Lake Sunapee Star Sailors, Well, first the Lake Sunapee Star Fleet hosted a fantastic and to the wonderful crew at the Sunapee Yacht club. North American Championship. Then, right on its tail, they host another fabulous regatta—their annual Lake Sunapee Open. The off-water activities and fabulous food of Lake Sunapee Open Results Sunapee Yacht Club have spoiled us rotten. Friday night Boat Skipper Crew Fleet R1 R2 Total we were treated to a delicious seafood buffet and on 8068 John MacCausland Rick Burgess CR 1 2 3 Saturday night we enjoyed the renowned steak dinner, 6985 Peter Hall D. Trepanier Mtl 2 3 5 cooked by the local star sailors. 7830 Andy Ivey Brad Nichol Sun 7 1 8 7731 David Cook Michael Wood Sun 4 4 8 Hazy, hot, humid, and no wind were the weather 7930 John Chiarella Terry Fletcher Sun 3 8 11 conditions on Saturday, so the racing was canceled. All 7639 Sam Rowse John Wulff Sun 9 5 14 was not lost as John Mac and myself hiked up a local 7626 Jim Freeman Matt Freeman SL 8 10 18 7315 Peter Pike Bill Pike Sun 6 14 20 mountain to get a little exercise and then enjoyed the 7162 Nat Cook Doug Wiggen Sun 11 9 20 hospitably of our host, Sam Rowse, and we went 7088 Jay Oglivy Greg Meyer Sun 19 6 25 swimming. Many of the other sailors stayed at the club and 830 Scott Beckman Chip Nolin Sun 18 7 25 relaxed in the bright Sun and clear, clean water of beautiful 7306 Don Cronon Emil. Karlovsky Mid 10 15 25 Lake Sunapee. 5634 Ian Bruce Ben Gibson Mtl 14 11 25 6572 Dag Lidbeck Dave Gulliver Sun 17 13 30 On Sunday morning the lake looked as still and smooth as 6831 Duane Delfosse B. Delfosse Sun 13 17 30 a and some were dubious that we would race at all. 7927 David Ivey Rob Bowers Sun 5 dnf 31 But then a nice little breeze started coming from the south 7100 Blackie Tilson Kip Murray Sun 12 19 31 7835 Dick Atkinson Bob Suitor Sun 15 16 31 and the race committee sent us out. The first race started in 7067 Andre Marcotie A. Vranderick Mtl 16 18 34 a very light southerly with crews to leeward. As we sailed 6210 J.F.Seguin Refet Eres Mtl 23 12 35 up the first leg the breeze continued to build and we started 8099 Bill Farrar Tom Nunez Sun 21 20 41 hiking. At the weather mark, Peter Hall of the Montreal, 6997 J. Delaporte B. Magatanong Mtl 20 21 41 Canadian fleet, was in the lead, we were second, and John 6505 Skip Nolin Michele Wood Sun 22 dns 48 6979 Joe Goodnough Bruce Pariseau Sun dns dns 52 Chiarella was third. We were fortunate to get a little shift 7628 Michael Feeney John Plunkett Sun dns dns 52 on the second beat and rounded in front of Peter, and then 3 STARDUST September, 2002 2002 NEW YORK STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS KING OF REGATTA July 20-21, 2002 August 10-11, 2002 Seneca Yacht Club Marina del Rey By Richard Burgess By Rich Roberts The weekend after the 12th district championships on IRISH UNKNOWNS SHOCK BIG NAMES Seneca Lake the Seneca Star Fleet hosted the New York AND SELVES IN WORLDS TUNE-UP State Championships. To say Irish eyes were smiling at the end of the California The plan was to sail two on Saturday and one on Sunday. Yacht Club's King of Spain Regatta Sunday would be an The wind did not cooperate on Saturday, as the race understatement. They were flabbergasted with joy after committee sent us out in what looked like a promising this final tune-up for the 2002 Star Class World northerly breeze, but it fizzled out and the committee Championship Aug. 18-23. canceled for the day. As is the case so many times once we The 73-year-old event had never seen as large or strong a were all back on the trailers a very nice breeze filled in, oh field, including seven world champions and the current well. Some of the group was treated to a boat ride up the No. 1-ranked sailor in the class. But the name to be canal that connects Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake, by engraved on the silver replica of a 15th-century Spanish Matt Freeman. Others sat around telling old sailing stories galleon donated by the late King Alphonse won't be while others took the time to explore the local area. Reynolds, Loof, Buchan, Cayard, Brun, Beashel, Sunday morning came with a building southerly breeze Macdonald or Van der Ploeg. They weren't even in the and off we went to sail three races. running. Jim Freeman gave us a sailing lesson and won the first and Try Max Treacy, 24, and crew Anthony Shanks, 30, a pair second races going away. The rest of the fleet traded of Dublin lads sailing for the Royal St. George Yacht places back and forth. The breeze had built to 10 to 12 and Club. They slew those dragons and several other the committee decided to sail us a third race. It was nice celebrities in the 74-boat field with a modest string of 8- that we won that race and Ted Hains was second but the 18-6-5 finishes. That's three results in the top 10, one more real story was Jim & Matt Freeman who sailed into third than anyone else managed in Santa Monica Bay's devious place from way back maybe 12th or 13th place at the first zephyrs and easily the highlight of the 18 months they've mark. been racing a Star. The group was treated to a nice lunch and as is the "Wow!" Treacy exclaimed when he was shown the final tradition at Seneca Lake the never empty beer keg flowed standings at the dock. "And we won by a mile." and soft drinks for those underage. The / Christian Finnsgard duo from Florida Seneca Lake is in the New York Wine area and for the and were nine points behind, 37-46, after leading awards the fleet gives out bottles of local wine, what a the first day. 's Howie Shiebler, with local great idea. crew Rick Peters, was another point back in third after I can only thank Bob Westcott for all of his hard work and winning the final race in a runaway. the work of the race committee, and the members of SYC Sunday's other winner, Bill Buchan of , won two of for putting up with us for two weekends in a row. his three Star Worlds before Treacy was born. Sailing with Mark Brink, he wound up ninth overall---obviously still Boat Skipper Crew Fleet R1 R2 R3 Total competitive at 67. Like Shiebler, they sailed into command 7626 Jim Freeman Matt Freeman SL 1 1 3 5 from the pin end of the two-part line and led at every mark 7133 Ted Hains Larry Scott LOC 3 5 2 10 in the light and streaky winds of 6 to 8 knots. The air 7824 Rick Burgess Jack Winthrop GrL 7 7 1 15 temperature peaked at 75 (F.). 7793 Brian Cramer Peter Carson LOC 4 6 6 16 Canada's Ross Macdonald and crew were 7630 Brad Anderson Doug Folsetter LOC 2 10 5 17 eighth---the top performing former world champions. A 7369 Steve Haarstick Steve Sarbok SL 6 4 7 17 summary of the others' efforts was offered by , 7271 Bob Westcott Jim Christian SL 5 2 12 19 who was 16th with : "This regatta is going to 6880 Myron White Jack McAllister 11 3 8 22 make some people famous---people you never heard of." 7940 Dan White Tyler Carey SL 10 11 4 25 7120 Jeff Schuchardt James Favaro GrL 9 8 9 26 Treacy and Shanks might qualify for that distinction. They 7463 Werner Holtze Stacey Valkenburgh SL 8 9 13 30 were 32nd in last year's World’s at Medemblik, The 7783 Tom White Doug Carey SL 13 13 10 36 , but they aren't counting on it being as easy 6569 Ed Seyerlein Jillian Stokes Ith 14 12 11 37 starting next Sunday. 6853 Brud Nicholson Jim Hendee SL 15 14 14 43 6963 Peter Lent Zack Orlov SL 12 15 dnf 43 4 STARDUST September, 2002

"I have to think there are a lot of guys that weren't trying 44 8000 Arthur Anosov Gennady Korolkov 43 48 45 42 178 as hard as they will be in the Worlds," Treacy said. 45 7612 Stephen Gould Jon Rogers 37 34 ocs 33 179 Double World and Olympic champion of 46 7525 Gregg Morton Gary Mitchell 54 30 21 dnc 180 San Diego was 19th, sailing with crew , 47 8006 Scott Zimmer Eric Ferrier 51 36 41 53 181 whose weekend was clouded by concern for his girl friend, 48 7838 Doug Steele Dick Schmidt 56 60 46 20 182 Kimberly Birkenfeld, 37, of Miami. Sailing a Mistral, she 49 7437 Nedko Vassilev Paul Erickson 48 58 28 49 183 suffered a head injury from a chase boat's propeller in 50 7 Yumio Dornberg Ken Dornberg 24 62 54 44 184 , late last week while training for the 51 6482 Barrett Sprout Randy Sprout 40 59 42 52 193 upcoming Athens 2002 Regatta, a pre-Olympic event. The 52 7325 Alejandro Bugacov Fernando Sotelo ocs 47 33 47 202 latest report was that she had undergone two surgeries and 53 6883 Jay LaPlante Mark Spector ocs 56 36 38 205 remained in a coma. 54 6560 Jed Miller Charley Rathkopf 29 54 50 dnc 208 55 8023 Lee Kellerhouse Isao Toyama 44 45 49 75 213 Pl. Sail# Skipper Crew R1 R2 R3 R4 Pts 56 00 Marc Skipwith Rico Johnsson 55 64 56 39 214 1 7817 Max Treacy R. Anthony Shanks 8 18 6 5 37 57 SWE Ian Gladwell Garth Miller 52 44 58 60 214 2 7995 Augie Diaz Christian Finnsgard 7 3 13 23 46 58 8052 Stephen Braverman Ronald Rezac 53 42 63 58 216 3 8077 Howie Shiebler Rick Peters 3 28 15 1 47 59 802 Mike Kennedy Kent Karlson 59 61 51 50 221 4 767 Mark Mansfield Killian Collins 11 12 5 21 49 60 7042 Steve Brown Steve Steinberg ocs 53 37 57 222 5 8059 Peter Vessella Brian Fatih 18 8 10 15 51 61 7953 Craig Steele Chris Eid 50 55 59 61 225 6 8067 Ian Walker Nick Williams 30 7 4 11 52 62 7982 Susie Pegel Tom George dnc dnc 32 46 228 7 7592 Paul Sustronk Mike Wolf 5 29 17 3 54 63 7985 Barton Beek Carroll McCallum 47 57 52 dnc 231 8 7451 Ross Macdonald Eric Jespersen 15 4 12 27 58 64 7979 Bill Fields Tom Kopp 45 63 53 dnf 236 9 7405 Bill Buchan Mark Brink 39 14 1 8 62 65 6660 Tom Hulme Mark 57 66 62 54 239 10 8065 Gavin Brady Rodney Kenann 26 26 8 10 70 66 8037 Skip Elliott John Peschelt 41 50 dnc dnc 241 11 7737 Vince Brun Rodrigo Meireles 16 19 19 17 71 67 7710 Jorg Westerheide Dylan Blew ocs 65 48 56 244 12 7828 13 15 14 34 76 68 8025 Brian Haines dnc dnc 25 dnc 250 13 8045 Larry Whipple Darin Jensen 6 13 34 24 77 69 7950 Brian O'Mahony John O'Mahony 62 dnf 60 55 252 14 7988 Peter Bromby Martin Siese 12 1 35 32 80 70 7986 Elizabeth Newell Mike Young 60 69 64 59 252 15 8068 John MacCausland Sean DeLaney 2 32 22 29 85 71 4103 Scot Merrick Don Taylor 61 67 67 63 258 16 8088 Paul Cayard Hal Haenel 42 2 39 7 90 72 6945 Mark Pinkerton Doug Russell tim 70 65 62 272 17 8053 Afonso Domingos Bernado Santos 46 33 9 2 90 73 6942 Sandy Horowitz Angel Lopez dnc dnc 66 64 280 18 8044 Steven Kelly Bill Holowesko 34 16 18 22 90 74 6528 Ralph De Luca tim 68 dnc dnc 293 19 7829 Mark Reynolds Magnus Liljedahl 33 25 20 12 90 20 7673 Argyle Campbell Kevin Bowles 10 24 47 13 94 21 8025 4 35 23 37 99 BEN CESARE 22 7862 John Virtue Myles Connolly 20 37 11 31 99 By Peter Cusick, Mid Connecticut Star Fleet 23 7836 Iain Murray Andrew Palfrey 21 10 57 14 102 24 8080 Fredrik Loof Anders Ekstrom 32 27 27 18 104 The team of Ben Cesare and Paul Amlong won the First 25 8082 Rick Merriman Bill Bennett dsq 9 3 19 106 District Championship held July 12-14 at Cedar Point 26 8070 J. Kouyoumdjian Gabriel Meyer 49 31 2 25 107 Yacht Club. Cesare and Amlong have teamed up but once 27 8094 Jose Van der Ploeg Diego Froetoso 25 22 30 35 112 before, with a strong 10th place finish at this year's Star 28 7581 Roberto Bermudez Domingo Menrrique 19 21 ocs 4 119 North American Championship. 29 7950 Jimmie Lowe Andrew Higgs 22 40 16 41 119 Both Cesare and Amlong are relatively new comers to the 30 8041 Jim Buckingham Joel Ked 36 38 29 16 119 Star Class. Amlong comes from Annapolis with 31 8085 Jean C. Vuithier Renato Tiarazzi 38 17 26 40 121 experience in offshore sailing and Melges 24s. 32 7998 George Szabo Austin Sperry ocs 5 38 9 127 33 7931 Jeremy Davidson Jessica Costa 27 49 31 30 137 Cesare grew up sailing Lasers at Norwalk Yacht Club in 34 7994 Nicklas Holm Marin Leifelt ocs 20 7 36 138 Connecticut where as a junior he won the Single Handed 35 7942 Mike Dorgan Eric Weintraub 1 39 55 48 143 Championship of Long Island Sound. As a collegiate 36 8072 Doug Smith Marty Dalton 31 46 44 26 147 sailor, Cesare earned All American status at Boston 37 7972 Byron Nelson David Nelson 23 41 40 45 149 University and later went on to serve as head coach for the 38 7462 David Watt Alex Dunn 35 52 61 6 154 Harvard Sailing Team. Over the years, Cesare has sailed 39 8061 Chr. Rasmussen Peter Orsted 17 23 ocs 43 158 both offshore and multiple one design classes 40 7854 Benny Andersen Rick McElvain 58 51 24 28 161 including Sonars, Snipes and . Ben is a skilled 41 7844 Foss Miller Greg Newhall 9 6 ocs dnc 165 match racer; winner of the Prince of Wales Bowl, team 42 7932 Kyle Henehan Patrick Hafer Sr. 28 43 43 51 165 racer and Interclub Dinghy champion at Larchmont Yacht 43 7714 Gonzalo Araujo Marcos Iglesias 14 11 dnc dnc 175 Club. 5 STARDUST September, 2002 When Ben isn't on the water he's typically retrieving misplaced gear in the parking lot or in the abyss of his OPINION COLUMN jeep. What marvels his friends most is how Ben is able to ISAF TO CONTROL convert the chaos of his on-land organization to the focus THE STAR CLASS WORLD’S CHAMPIONSHIP and control he displays on the water. Whether on the water or off, Ben's a great sport and a great addition to the Star By Rick Burgess Class. We look forward to Ben's contributions and It’s my understanding that ISAF may be imposing very competitiveness in District One for years to come. serious restrictions as to the number of boats per country at next year’s World Championship. They are planning to restrict it to a maximum of 5 boats per country and maybe letting former world champions enter. For example, DEN, FRA, GER, ITA, NED and USA would be allowed to enter 5 boats each and AUT, CAN, GBR and IRL would be allowed 4 boats each. First ISAF wants and gets a joint World Championship for all of the Olympic classes and now they say there will be too many boats. The approach of ISAF is that since the Star Class signed contract that they now control how we run our Class. They are quick to point out that the different classes petition ISAF for the right to compete in the and thus give up their rights. This will have a major ripple effect on Star sailing all the way to the District level. The District Championships in many cases have a greater number of entries because of qualifying to that year’s World Championship. It also will mean the average sailor will Paul Amlong and Ben Cesare no longer be able to compete in the World st holding the 1 District Trophy Championship. The annual meeting will also be affected as the more people that attend means the more input of different ideas. Some have said that we as a Class are slowly losing our rights as a Class, but I submit to you that it’s no longer slowly. I strongly recommend that if you think that loosing our right to control our World Championship is wrong then contact the Class president, vice presidents, and every member of the IGC and CMC to voice your concern. Regards Richard Burgess 5; NED, 5; NZL, 3; SUI, 3; SWE, 3; USA, 5.

In he goes! (photos provided by Hilary Lawrence) The reader might be perplexed as to why a small country with relatively little Star activity such as DEN can send the (Editor’s note: According to the ISAF memo which gives same number of boats to the World’s as countries which the number of boats allocated to each country for the joint have much larger populations and greater activity in the Cadiz World’s most countries which have Stars actively Star Class. It is also perplexing that countries such as sailing and some countries which have no Stars presently China, Israel, , , Seycheles, Thailand, and active would be allowed 2 boats each. The exceptions are: Turkey along with several other countries which have no AUS, 3; AUT, 4; BER, 3; BRA, 3; CAN, 4; CRO, 3; DEN, activity in the Star Class are each allotted 2 boats when 5; ESP, 3; FIN, 3; FRA, 5; GBR, 4; GER, 5; IRL, 4; ITA, none of these countries have sent Star boats in at least the 6 STARDUST September, 2002 past decade and in some cases ever to either the World’s or the Olympics.)

7 STARDUST September, 2002 UPCOMING REGATTAS and much more. This is a solid boat which is still very competitive at fleet level and would make an excellent BEDFORD PITCHER starter boat/fleet racer. Boat located in Milford, CT. $6000. September 7-8 Contact Alan Pritchard, 203 853 6310 / abpritchard- Hosted by the CLIS Fleet [email protected] (4-02) In 1949 Frederick T. Bedford donated the Bedford Pitcher, 7506 Mader, 1990. White with blue waterline. Boat once in actual use as the water pitcher on Wilson Marshall's in nice condition. Double mainsheet system. puller 185-foot three-masted schooner Atlantic. An elaborate piece upgrade. Galvanized Harbeck trailer with long storage box. of solid silver, it is a meaningful symbol of the way of life of 3 and 4 . Boat located in Cherry Hill, NJ. a bygone era as well as one of our finest trophies. (See photo $8000. Contact John MacCausland: 856 428 9094 / on page 8.) [email protected] The Bedford Pitcher has been sailed for in various fleets. It Vang track wanted: I've picked up an older Lippincott started in CLIS. Then for the years 1965 and 1966 it was which needs a vang track. Does anyone out there have a sailed for in the WLIS, and from 1967 to 1973 it was sailed spare track / car that they'd be willing to give away or sell? for in the ELIS fleet. It made a big move when from 1974 to Any suggestions welcome! Contact Scott Rosen: 781 639 1982 it was sailed for in BH fleet. In 1983 it was returned to 0163 / [email protected] the CLIS fleet.

NUTMEG TROPHY September 21-22 STAR CLASS HISTORICAL MATERIAL Hosted by the Mid-Conn Fleet Three items which deal with historical information about On September 21-22 the Mid-Conn Fleet will host its annual the Star Class are now available: Nutmeg Trophy regatta. Don Spengler, past commodore of “Forty Years Among the Star” by George Elder $20 the Milford Y.C., started the Nutmeg Regatta which was first “A Pictorial History of the Star Class” $12 sailed in 1952. The trophy was named after the state's “Complete Results of the World’s, North American’s, nickname. The enthusiasm of the growing Mid-Conn fleet and Olympics” $12 brought trophy into existence. The original trophy was very nice. However, it disappeared after one of the early regattas. Complete set of all three books: $40 It was then replaced by present trophy. Shipping and handling extra. Order from: When the Nutmeg Regatta began the Mid-Conn fleet was David Bolles Tel: 203 882 9428 wet-sailed. Thus, originally the visiting boats sailed out of 133 Castle Lane oyster docks across the river from club. A crane was brought Milford, CT 06460 in for the regatta to launch the visiting boats. The club members put together a temporary dock on beach where E-mail: [email protected] hoists now are for the visiting boats to tie up to. STAR CLASS MEMORABILIA For more information on how to get to the club, housing, If you have anything which you think should be in the Star or the event itself see www.mycstar.org or the 1st District Class Archives at Mystic Seaport Museum please contact Web Site under Regattas and Events, or contact: either the editor ([email protected]) (203 882 John Lombard: 203 530 2550 / 9428) or Joe Knowles ([email protected]). Anything from a [email protected] single photograph to a collection of correspondence, David Bolles: 203 882 9428 / [email protected] program notes, or anything else related to the Star Class and its activities would be most welcomed. FOR SALE / WANTED 6000 series boats in various conditions for sale. Boats are located at Milford Y.C., Milford CT. Contact Dick Hovey. FIBERGLASS AND GEL COAT REPAIR Tel: 203 795 3008 / e-mail: [email protected] David Bolles Tel: 203 882 9428 6567 Mader, 1980. Complete with trailer. Two suits of 133 Castle Lane . $1500. Contact Jim Kerns, 203 339 4888 (work), 203 Milford, CT 06460 209 2646 (home). E-mail: / [email protected] 7174 Mader, 1986. Boat is in good condition. Complete package; SparTech F section mast and two suits of sails 8 STARDUST September, 2002 REGATTA SCHEDULES EMIL’S CORNER

1st District Sept. 7-8 Bedford Pitcher, CLIS Sept. 14-15 Nathan Hale, HB Sept. 21-22 Nutmegs, Mid

2nd District Sept. 14-15 SSA Fall Series Sept. 28-29 Fall Windup, TAYC Oct. 19-20 Michelob Cup, WRSC

5th District Ag. 30-Sp. 1 Labor Day Pitcher Regatta, SDYC Sept. 7-8 Black Star - Under #7000, CYC Sept. 14-15 Fall Gold Cup, NHYC Oct. 19-20 Calvin Paige, StFYC Oct. 26-27 Ash Bown, SDYC Dec. 14-15 Kriss Kringle Regatta, SDYC

12th District Sept. 7-8 FLASIR, LH Sept. 14-15 Lake George Open, LG

Sept. 21-22 Chili Regatta Cartoon by Emil Karlovsky

SEND US YOUR MATERIAL To submit material to this newsletter please contact: David Bolles 133 Castle Lane Milford, CT 06460-7515 203 882 9428 / [email protected] A reminder about reporting regatta results: please try to give the information in the following format: Place/ Boat #/ Skipper/ Crew/ Fleet/ Daily positions/ Score Please contact the editor about any corrections to race results. While this cannot undo what has already been printed, it would be helpful in avoiding errors in the future.

Suggested donation for an annual hard copy subscription to Stardust: $18. David Bolles Tel: 203 882 9428 133 Castle Lane Milford, CT 06460 E-mail: / [email protected]

THE BEDFORD PITCHER will be raced for on the weekend of September 7-8 at Cedar Point Y.C. in Westport, CT

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