Star
45
Sadly,
I don’t have any pictures of this boat.
On the otherhand, you could say I have a bunch
of pictures of this boat because it looked like so many of the plain sailboats
I watched him build and sail when I was growing up. The Star 45 is a one-design class of hard chined boats. It’s 45 inches long
and everything about its shape, weight and sail is tightly controlled except
for the materials. Dave Holmes built his
out of fiberglass. My father built his
out of wood. It was also his first
attempt at making sails for a racing yacht.
I only remember one race he attended. It was a class championship race
held someplace in Virginia. The whole
family came. I don’t remember how Dave
Holmes did. I remember my father placing
second. Rod Carr, who made and sold
sails placed in his advertisement the following phrase: “In the Star 45 ACCR,
boats with Carr sails placed 1st, 3rd, 4th,
and 5th.”