"family boat"— it is too low and wet, has too large a sail area and too small 

 a cockpit for that— but a first-class keel racing machine of the displacement 

 type with a modern rig and equipment. It is a spectacular boat to sail or to 

 watch and it is not unusual for both members of the crew to be completely 

 outside the boat, "clinging like monkeys to the topsides" as someone put it. 

 Stars are kept out of water between races and their hulls shine like glass. 



Recently I asked Paul H. Smart, able Executive President of the ISCYRA, 

 if the tremendous vogue of light planing hulls had not had an unfavorable 

 eflFect on Star-class development. 



"Not at all," said he, and C. Stanley Ogilvy, Vice-President of ISCYRA 

 and noted Star sailor, agreed. "More new Stars were built in 1961 than in 

 any one year in Star history— 185 of them. The planing hulls don't compete 

 with the Stars, they are entirely different kinds of boats." Also we imagine 

 that few planing hulls would have survived as long as the Stars. While 

 Number 1 Star was broken up after some years on the grounds of the 

 Manhasset Bay Yacht Club and a plaque at the bar now commemorates her, 

 Warren Ransome of Rye, New York, still uses Star Number 7 (Ceti) as a 

 day sailer. Star Number 8, built in 1912, took part in the fiftieth-anniversary 

 regatta at Rye, New York, on May 30, 1961. 



As Stanley Ogilvy has pointed out,* superiority in Star sailing is well 

 distributed among many areas and countries, as International records show. 

 See the association "log" for a list of the many Star builders. Prices are now 

 from $3400 to $3900 for a new Star. 



VITAL STATISTICS: L.O.A. 22'9''; watcrlinc i5'6''; beam 5'8''; draft 

 (keel) 3^4''; sail area 281 sq. ft.; trailable with special trailer; racing crew, 

 two. 



TALLSTAR 



Designed by Robert Baker, the 14-foot Tallstar fiber-glass sloop is built 

 and sold by Sailstar Boats (,West Warwick, R.I. ) . A feature is the so-called 

 "Kickerpit," an outboard-motor well which makes unnecessary any outward 

 evidence that the skipper ever has to use outboard power. The builder 

 describes a transom outboard bracket as "unsightly." I suspect that a more 

 weighty objection would be one of status. A 210 Class champion once 



* "50 Years of Stars," by C. Stanley Ogilvy, Motor Boating, May 1961. I owe much to this 

 article and to Messrs. Smart and Ogilvy in person for their help on this section, though I am 

 responsible for all unquoted opinions. 



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