Today was the first day of the Gill College Sailing Coed National Championship Semifinals hosted by Brown University with support from Dartmouth College and the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA). Host site Sail Newport Sailing Center in Fort Adams State Park is where the top 36 college sailing teams in the nation are vying for 18 spots in the championship finals, which will begin on Thursday, May 30.

The semifinals are divided into two fleets, an Eastern and Western, each with 18 teams. The top nine teams from each fleet will advance to the finals on Thursday. The sailors are racing on windward leeward courses in FJs and Z420s. Today the Eastern fleet sailed FJs and the Western fleet sailed Z420s. The fleets will switch boats tomorrow.

Racing was completed today in the LaserPerformance Team Race National Championship in Newport Harbor out of host site Sail Newport Sailing Center in Fort Adams State Park. This is the second of three, spring college sailing national championships hosted by Brown University with the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) also supported by Harvard University. The top sixteen collegiate team racing teams in the nation competed for the national title and the Walter C. Wood Trophy and Yale University won the title.

The second day of racing in the LaserPerformance Team Race National Championship was a full day. The sixteen top teams in the nation were cut down to the top eight and finally the top four today. The regatta is taking place out of host site Sail Newport Sailing Center in Fort Adams State Park in Newport, R.I. Brown University with the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) also supported by Harvard University are hosting the events.

There was a light to medium sea breeze this morning from the southwest, which steadily picked up with gusts up to 18 knots at the peak of the winds, but it lightened up to around 8 to 10 knots later on, which made for great team racing conditions. The holiday weekend boat traffic caused some challenging chop for the competitors and racing late into the evening made for a long and tiring day.

NEWPORT, R.I. (May 25, 2019) – The first day of racing in the LaserPerformance College Sailing Team Race National Championship got underway today at regatta host site Sail Newport Sailing Center in Fort Adams State Park in Newport, R.I. The regatta is hosted by Brown University with the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) also supported by Harvard University. Sixteen of the best college teams across the nation qualified to compete in this event for the Walter C. Wood Trophy, awarded to the winning team.

The format for this event is a series of round robins. In the first round all sixteen teams race each other once. This round determines places 9-16. The top eight teams then advance to a single round robin, which determines places 5-8. The top four remaining teams advance to a “final four” another single round to determine places 1-4.