Regatta Reports
Getting Ready for the 2010 Star Worlds
By Lynn Fitzpatrick, World Regattas.com, photos by Barbara Beigel Vosbury
Jan 14, 2010, 11:26

Over 80 teams are registered for the 2010 Star World Championship, which takes place January 12-23. International teams have been training in Rio for months and are praying to the statue of Christ the Redeemer on Corcovado mountain that theirs will be the team to wrest the title from George Szabo and Rick Peters (USA). If November's "friendly" Star regattas in Rio are any indication, holding off hungry Europeans such as Flavio Marazzi and Enrico De Maria (SUI) and Freddie Loof and Johan Tillander (SWE) and the locals, which include Lars Grael and Ronald Sieifert and past Star World Champions, Torben Grael, Marcelo Ferreira, Robert Scheidt, Bruno Prada and Alan Adler will be more difficult that beating back a hungry school of piraņa.

Photos of registration and measurement at the 2010 Star Worlds in Rio.

Sugar Loaf

Great Britain contingent

US sailors

Measurement hangar

Mast measurement

Mast measuring

Sail Measurement

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