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Day 6: U.S. Olympic Star Class Trials - Gallery
Photo boat captain Daryl Saunders.

Virtually every team was checking its mast as the AP (postponement) flag flew in winds of 25-30 knots Friday morning. Photo shows (from left) Steve Brown, Eric Doyle and Scott Pack (John Virtue's crew).
Photo © Rich Roberts / YachtRacing.com

Mark Reynolds and crew Steve Erickson finesse their Star downwind in 22 knots of breeze. Photo © Rich Roberts / YachtRacing.com
Frontrunner Paul Cayard and crew Phil Trinter feel the heat from Eric Doyle and Brian Sharp on the windward offset leg of Friday's first race, which Doyle/Sharp won. Photo © Rich Roberts / YachtRacing.com   Crews Brian Sharp for Eric Doyle and Phil Trinter for Paul Cayard set the whisker poles to go downwind. Photo © Rich Roberts / YachtRacing.com
 
Caught in a squall at the last weather mark, Paul Cayard and Phil Trinter cross Andy Lovell on Magnus Liljedahl on port tack. Photo © Rich Roberts / YachtRacing.com  
George Szabo (center) and crew Mark Strube (right) currently are in second place but took time to check and help straighten Ben Cesare's mast. Nelson Stevenson, a Star sailor from Westport, Conn., is behind Szabo. Photo © Rich Roberts / YachtRacing.com Mark Reynolds, trying for his fifth Olympics, makes last-minute inspection and sets up for heavy weather. Photo © Rich Roberts / YachtRacing.com

 

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