Star Dust
Stardust was built in Switzerland in 1945 by Herman Egger and designed by Henri Copponex. She was built for E. Morf and registered in Geneva.
Little is known of Morf, but her designer is better documented. Copponex was a talented sailor as well as designer and he competed in the Olympic Games three times, winning a bronze medal for Switzerland in 1960. He entered in the Six Metre class in the 1948 Olympics, taking 7th place in Ylliam VII.
Copponex only designed one Six Metre: Star Dust, but he was prolific among the 5.5 Metres, designing 30 boats in the class. His sailing career and contribution to yacht design was so remarkable in Switzerland – particularly between the 1930s and 1970s – that one sporting newspaper called him “the prince of the lake”.
Morf owned Star Dust right through the 1940s and ‘50s and sailed her on Lake Geneva. She disappears from the records around 1960, but remained in Switzerland.
In 1987, around the time when the Six Metre class was being rekindled in the UK, Star Dust – now St. Amour II – was bought by Richard Arden to joint the fleet there. Over the next 30 years St. Amour II passed through various owners in the UK and underwent numerous restorations, including a new deck and new sails. In 1995 She was entered in the World Championships, finishing third in the classic division.
In 2018, now named Stardust once more, the boat made her way to Spain to join the new fleet of Six Metres.
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