The All-Star won the world championships. Yes, EJ was paddling it, but there is more to that story that really shows that the All-Star was champion of the world!

When I arrived at the world championships people liked the look of the Stars right off, but only mild interest in the boat. After Petr, Jake, Emily, and I started paddling the boat and more athletes showed up, suddenly athletes from around the world were interested in trying one. I don’t lend my worlds boat out so Emily, Stephen Wright, and Devon Barker became the demo people. It always started off with, “That Star sure looks easy to throw around, or “is it you or the boat that makes it loop so high?”. Then, whether I liked it or not, they would paddle one. One by one in the first few weeks I was there, the best athletes from countries all over the world would say, “when I get home I want to paddle the Star, or All-Star, or Super Star “(depending on their size).

By the final week before the competition, there was a line of people waiting every time Stephen or Devon got off the water. They would have to ask who was first! Emily would complain to me that every time she went to get in her boat, somebody had moved stuff around. Every company had their new boats there, but it was clearly the Star series of boats that was taking the interest of the worlds best paddlers by storm. This is a preview of coming attractions. The Star series will prove to be the best choice for playboaters everywhere in 2005.