The fleet in Denmark, for the Star Worlds beginning in about one week, will be filled with Golden star and Silver star. Previous World Champions, European Champions and great sailors will come to Svendborg from all over the world to win one of the toughest trophy ever to win and wear ever since the golden star on their mainsail.
The goal is to be focused, arrive in Denmark well trained and fit, as the races are 2 hrs long, one race per day, and be ready to fight some hard battles. The trophy has been won before by great heroes of our sport, athletes who proved they could not only win this, but Olympic titles, America’s Cup, around the world races. In Denmark we’ll see at least six World Champions, starting with the title holder, Miami-based Augie Diaz and the most titled Star crew Bruno Prada, they like light breezes and are good to go with long races and keeping the focus up. Lars Grael and Samuel Goncalves are already in Svendborg to train on the racecourse, 
they’ll try to replicate the success they had in Argentina a couple of years ago. In 2014, on lake Garda, the German duo Robert Stanjek and Frithjof Kleen won the golden star that is carried on the skipper’s sail for life, but that crew, ‘Frida’, is here racing with American skipper Jack Jennings. The 2013 Star World Champion, John MacCausland will be also in Danemark to fight for a second title. George Szabo won it back in 2009 in Sweden and he is probably hoping to find similar conditions to that other time in the Scandinavian area. Szabo will sail once again with Patrick ‘Leduc’ Ducommun, with whom he won the first SSL Lake Grand Slam in Grandson, Switzerland in 2015. The pair found immediate feeling and they managed the event great in light and shifty wind conditions. Paul Cayard will sail with his son Danny, it isn’t the first time that it happens, but it will be the first time they race with Danny at the helm and Paul crewing, demonstrating the great shape of the American skipper. Roberto Benamati wrote his name on the trophy back in 1991, in Cannes, and has been trying to win it back ever since pairing up with many different crews. 
Diego Negri and Sergio Lambertenghi have gone so close to the goal twice already. Two second spots at the Worlds both in Miami and in Malcesine, and at both events they were leading almost the whole series. They have a European Championship on their shoulder and may other titles, they should be among the teams to watch closely. Johannes Polgar and Markus Koy have sailed together for probably the longest of anyone else out there, the haven’t quite made it to get the Worlds yet, but we expect to see great thing from this successful duo. And then there is Andy McDonalds, sailing with Brad Nichol, they have just won the Eastern Hemisphere together in Viareggio, and the momentum might carry on. Eivind Melleby, who won the 2016 European and the 2014 North American Championship, will attend to this event with Joshua Revkin. As Star Sailors League, we are very pleased to see Facundo Olezza on the start line of the Star World Championship after attending the SSL Finals last December, we are really excited to see his performance in a bigger fleet.
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