U. S. Olympic Sailing Team

[Saluki86]

Being very new to sailing, I am actually paying attention to the Olympic Sailing competition.  I found the US team's homepage (http://olympics.ussailing.org/) but other than the Lazer and Finn, didn't even recognize any of the classes, boats, attributes, etc.  I am assuming some (Finn Class?) will be for singlehanded racing while some of the others will have 2 or more but not sure about  that either.

Anyone more knowledgable wanna chip in?  What country is the favorite in the sailing events?

[Shawn]

You can read more about the classes at:

http://suite101.com/article/olympic-sailing-basics-a7927

or at:

http://www.sailing.org/classes/index.php

and then in the Olympic Equipment select the class you want to see more about.

Looks like Paralympics are sailing Skud 18, 2.4 meter and Sonars.

Shawn

[Vipersdad]

This will be the last year for the Star.  My family has a lot of history with this class.  One of my father's early boats was Star #1005.  Another boat I liked that isn't current is the Dragon.  Oh Well.

Cheers.