Congrats to Hamish Pepper and Carl "Tiny" Williams (Carl is a member of our sailing team) who have won the North American Star Championship with a race to spare.

They also won the World Championship six weeks ago in San Francisco, having been sailing in the Olympic class for just eight months. After winning the first two races on Wednesday, they slipped a bit on Thursday. They came back strong on Friday, winning another race against the "very classy" 79-boat fleet in Miami, Florida. Hamish and Carl are now in an unbeatable points position with one race to sail on Saturday.

The victory caps off an amazing year for the Kiwi crew, who have risen from zero to be #3 in the ISAF rankings -- and should be #1 when the latest rankings are announced in a couple of weeks.

Full story on the Star Class website