Observer Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race

found: Foster, L. OSTAR : the full story of the Observer Single-handed Transatlantic and the Two-handed Round Britain races:cover page (OSTAR is the acronym of Observer Single-handed Transatlantic Race, but has come to mean all that is best and most exciting in short-handed competitive sailing)

found: Wikipedia, July 25, 2006(Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race, or STAR; inaugurated in 1960; run from Plymouth to the USA, and is held every four years; originally sponsored by the UK-based Observer newspaper, and known as the Observer Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race, or OSTAR [1960-1984]; due to changes in sponsorship, it has been known as the CSTAR [1988], Europe 1 STAR [1992-1996], the Europe 1 New Man STAR [2000], and The Transat [2004]; conceived by Francis Chichester and Herbert "Blondie" Hasler in 1956)

found: Alone against the Atlantic, c1980:t.p. (The Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race)

found: BL authority file, 3 January 2013(ref.: Royal Western/Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race)

found: Wikipedia website, 3 January 2013(in 1980, the 1/OSTAR race was co-sponsored by the radio station Europe 1, with the Observer and repeated as such in 1984, before becoming the CSTAR in 1988)

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