Star (boat class)
| Notation | |
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| Boat dimensions | |
| Length above : | 6.92 m |
| Length WL : | 4.72 m |
| Width above sea level : | 1.73 m |
| Draft : | 1.02 m |
| Mast height : | 10 m |
| Weight (ready to sail): | 680 kg |
| Weight (ballast, keel): | 394.5-408.5 kg |
| Sail area | |
| Sail area close to the wind : | 27.92 m² |
| Mainsail : | 20.5 m² |
| Jib : | 7.5 m² |
| Others | |
| Rigging type: | Sloop |
| Yardstick number : | 97 |
| Class : | international / olympic |
The Star (or German: Starboot , English: Starboat ) is a unit class for an open two-man keelboat . She was used as a regatta yacht at the Olympic Games until 2012. The Star is a regatta boat for the demanding and athletic sailor, which is why top sailors from all over the world ( Dennis Conner , Russell Coutts , Paul Elvstrøm , Mark Reynolds , Torben Grael , Iain Percy and others) are drawn to this boat class .
history
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The Star was designed as an open two-man keelboat by William Gardner and Francis Sweisguth in 1910 . One year later, in 1911, an international interest group was founded which has held a world championship for Star Boats almost every year since 1922 . The Star was selected as an Olympic boat class as early as 1932. This made it the first unit boat class to be sailed at the Olympic Games.
In 1968, however, the Star was replaced for the first time by another boat class, the Tempest . After the 1976 Olympics, the boat got the Olympic rings back. The star was again not nominated for the 2016 Olympic Games. However, the organizing Olympic Committee of Brazil was able to nominate another discipline and decided on the star boat. In return, all associated costs must be borne by the organizer.
The long Olympic history explains the international spread of the demanding boat class. The International Star Class Yacht Racing Association has represented the interests of the Star Class as a worldwide association since 1911 . It is divided into two “hemispheres”, south and north, and these are each divided into 21 “districts”, which in turn are subdivided into so-called “fleets” (for example 23 in Germany). Together with Austria, Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Russia and the Ukraine, southern Germany belongs to District 17. North Germany belongs to the 13th district with Great Britain, Benelux and Denmark. The Hamburg fleet was founded in 1931, the youngest fleet in Germany is the Bremen fleet from 1995.
A total of 8,556 starlings had been built by September 2019.
hull
Permissible materials for the chine body In are wood or glass fiber reinforced polyester or epoxy resin . In the meantime, however, the wood has almost completely been displaced from the field of racing yachts and can only be found on older hulls.
The fuselage has a flat bottom that is slightly curved in the transverse direction and curved in the longitudinal direction. This leads to a relatively short stem that is already above the waterline. The stern has a slightly positive mirror ( Plattgattheck ).
The blueprints are available to anyone from ISCYRA's Central Office in Chicago.
Rigging, rigging, sails
The simple rig gives the star an almost unmistakable appearance on the water. In addition to the mast standing far forward, the main sail area, which is large compared to the hull, is particularly striking. With a boat length of 6.92 m, the boom is approx. 4.5 m long and protrudes just over the stern; the main sail has an area of over 20 m². Together with the jib, the star carries more than 27 m² of sail area.
Unlike most modern regatta classes, the Star has no spinnaker or gennaker besides the jib and mainsail . The Star is still a complex boat to be sailed, as a variety of trim options allow the rig to be adjusted according to requirements.
Regattas: international champions
A special feature of the Starboot class is that you can tell who you are dealing with from the sail sign. The world champions of the class have the right to use a five-pointed star in gold instead of the red class emblem, winners of a continental or hemispherical championship one in silver, district champions one in blue and the winners of a beginners district championship the star in green to attach. Olympic champions receive a gold star above the Olympic rings. It is considered extremely crude to point out to the sailmaker to attach the corresponding colored star if he does not do it of his own accord, for example because he did not know who he was dealing with. Raised over this faux pas of the sailmaker, one sails deliberately without decoration. World championships are valued more highly within this class than Olympic victories.
Olympic Summer Games
The Summer Olympics in 1940 and 1944 did not take place because of the Second World War .
For the sailing competitions in the summer of 1976 on Lake Ontario in Canada, the Star was replaced by the Tempest keelboat . At the meeting of the International Sailing Federation on May 7, 2011, the star boat was again removed from the Olympic program from 2016.
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World championships
This list only includes those world championships
- in which there were no Summer Olympics,
- or the star was not admitted to the Olympic Games,
- or access to the Olympics was significantly restricted.
All participants in the World Championships of the 1920s and during World War II came from North America. The 1984 world champion from Brazil took part in the Olympic Games in the same year.
| Year and venue | nationality | Skipper / helmsman | Crew / crew | Boat name | |
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| 1924 Western Long Island Sound |
 United States
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Jack Robinson | Arthur Knapp Jr. | Little Bear | |
| 1928 Newport Beach |
United States
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Prentice Edrington | Gilbert Gray | Sparkler II | |
| 1940 San Diego |
United States
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James Cowie | Gordon Cowie | Rambunctious | |
| 1944 Lake Michigan |
United States
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Gerald Driscoll | Malin Burnham | - | |
| 1976 Nassau (Bahamas) |
United States
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James Allsopp | Michael Guhin | Mustard Seed | |
| 1980 Rio de Janeiro |
United States
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Tom Blackaller | David Shaw | Chewbacca | |
See also
- List of medal winners in the Star (as an open class for men and women) 1932–2000
- List of medal winners in the Star (men only) 2004–2012
- List of boat classes
- List of ship types
Web links
- International Star Class Yacht Racing Association
- Association of German Star Boat Fleets
- Association of Swiss Star Boat Fleets
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Yardstick numbers of the DSV 2018, accessed on March 5, 2018
- ↑ Star Class History. List of results lists at the International Star Class Yacht Racing Association . Retrieved May 11, 2013 . Only the years 1927–1931, 1933–1938, 1940–1943, 1968, 1982, 1984, 1986–1992, 1998, 2000 and 2001, i.e. 28 of the 91 years from 1922 to 2012 inclusive, remained without the World Cup.
- ↑ Starclass website: detailed regatta results of the Olympic Games since 1932 in the Starboot class. Accessed February 5, 2009
- ↑ Starclass website: Map of the districts ( memento of the original from January 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 5, 2009
- ↑ Star Class: "Newest Star Number"
- ↑ Yacht 1976 issue: 10 respite? Star boats in Germany (Page: 63)
- ^ Message from ISAF
