It was a good day at the Hoylake boating lake, the weather was good although a bit breezy earlier on but the sun was out and not a drop of rain in sight. Over the afternoon up to 40 people came along either to sail their yachts or just to sit and watch them being sailed. A delightful afternoon. Former Star Yacht Factory owner, Frank Denye and his wife Teresa came along with Frank sailing several of his yachts. People who turned up and didn't have a yacht were offered the loan of one to have that "Star experience".

Below are some of the photos taken on the day, photos are still arriving from near and far around and I will post more as I have them.

Frank Denye with one of his yachts.

Teresa and Graham

John and below his MK/3 which he has owned for 70 years!

Dougie and an SY/7

Frank collecting the yachts

A nice looking SY/3

Lakeside

A rare Star clockwork speedboat from Mike Brownhill

1932 solid yacht with roundel deck badge from Mike Brownhill

Lakeside

Star yachts everywhere

Even a DB/2 Dutch barge had a sail

An early Endeavour

A video, click on photo to view

Below, from Trevor Smith, VMYG, sailing his rare SB/4 Baltic Star at Collett Park lake, Shepton Mallet, Somerset

Over in the North East at Bishop Aukland, Kelso and Ann Yuill held a fund raising day for their local primary school by having a Star yacht experience in their garden

Not just for the younger ones

Kelso on the right

One of Kelso's many early Star yachts, this one is an MK/1

Terry from Wirral sent in a video of his original condition SB/5 sailing at New Brighton

A video, click on photo to view

Bryan Cottrell over in Pennsylvania, USA, had a trio of Stars out on the day, the SY/6 and MK/3 having never been sailed before

Endeavour III, SY/6 and SY/5 ready to go

SY/6, first time out

Endeavour III fitted with tie rope so it doesn't go astray on this huge lake