The San Diego Bay Star Fleet

The San Diego Bay Star Fleet Book, Volumes I & II

Ed Sprague has raced Stars for 46 years. His book is a labor of love of the one-design International Star and Olympic Keelboat. The Star Class has survived ninety-nine years, becoming the world's largest one-design keel class. World Championship regattas regularly attract over 100 competitors from around the world.

CONTENTS

THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE STAR CLASS
ITS BIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT: 1907-1930

II FORMATIVE YEARS
FORMATIVE YEARS: 1925-1936

III FIRST GOLD STAR
MILT WEGEFORTH AND ERNEST PHILLIPS: 1937-1943

IV SECOND GOLD STAR
GERALD DRISCOLL AND MALIN BURNHAM: 1944

V THIRD GOLD STAR
MALIN BURNHAM AND LOWELL NORTH: 1945-1956

VI FOURTH GOLD STAR
LOWELL NORTH AND JIM HILL: 1957-1958

VII FIFTH GOLD STAR
LOWELL NORTH AND MORT CARLILE: 1959

VIII SIXTH GOLD STAR
LOWELL NORTH AND THOMAS SKAHILL: 1960-1967

IX FIRST OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL
LOWELL NORTH AND PETER BARRETT: 1968-1970

X SEVENTH GOLD STAR
DENNIS CONNER AND JIM REYNOLDS: 1971-1972

XI EIGHTH GOLD STAR
LOWELL NORTH AND PETER BARRETT: 1973-1976

Volume I Excerpt
In 1907 a group of yachtsmen, led by George Corry, tired of paying for professional crews on their larger racing yachts, decided yacht racing should be fun. They felt that, instead of paying their crews, they could ask their friends and wives to crew for them so they could just have fun racing one-design boats. The Star Class is fortunate in that its publications have had a series of editors who took great interest in the history of the Class. The first comprehensive history of the Star Class, written by Charles E. Lucke, Jr. and published in the 1931 Star Class Log, gives the various events which led to the design of the Star and talks about the Star's lineage:

View Volume I INDEX

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This is a book about "A 75 year story about a remarkable one-design sailing fleet."
The San Diego Bay Star Fleet has won 15 Gold Star World Championships, 35 Silver Star (Hemisphere) championships, three Olympic Gold Medals, one Olympic Silver Medal and two Junior Star Championships. Fifty-one World and Hemisphere championships have been won in the last 75 years—a remarkable achievement. In the last 10 years the San Diego Bay Star Fleet has won the Star World Championship four times and the Olympic Gold Medal once. The fleet won back to back championships in 1999 and 2000. Not even the 28 championships the New York Yankees have won can compare.