Canada's Star Sailors - Richard Clarke and Tyler Bjorn

11:58 PM Sun 26 Sep 2010 GMT

'Richard Clarke and Tyler Bjorn on way to winning the 2010 Star Western Hemisphere Championship in Nassau.' Fried Elliott ? Click Here to view large photo

Canada's Star Sailors - Have you ever arrived at an event and seen familiar faces on a new team and said, 'Ah ha! They're going to be tough to beat. I wonder what took them so long to team up?' That's what happened when Richard Clarke, four-time Canadian Finn representative to the Olympics and Tyler Bjorn a long-time Star crew and member of the Canadian Olympic sailing team, arrived at the Star North Americans last year on Long Island Sound. Bjorn was determined to put together a first class team and devised a plan to that was too good for ...

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