Yale won the Open Atlantic Coast Championship in the final race of the regatta, Rhode Island took the Tournament Finals, and three earlier college sailing results are now official.
The Open Atlantic Coast Championship came down to a single race in college sailing’s Week 8. At the regatta hosted by Brown, Yale led by one point going into the last B Division race and closed it out to finish six points ahead of Boston College. Yale also won the Coast Guard Invite and its home Yale Women’s Regatta for three wins on the weekend. Rhode Island won the Open Atlantic Coast Tournament Finals at Connecticut College, and Tufts went 9-1 to win the Norman Reid Team Race. Two September regattas, the Hatch Brown Trophy and the Mystic Lake Invite, are now official, along with the Savin Hill Invite from October 17.
Yale Wins the Open ACC in the Final Race
The Open ACC brought 18 of the top open teams in college sailing to Brown’s Ted Turner ’60 Sailing Pavilion at Edgewood Yacht Club on October 24-25. Both days began with long postponements ashore. On Saturday a southerly filled in after 2 p.m., and racing ran in 6-8 knots before the breeze faded to around 4-5 knots near sunset, with six A Division races and five B Division races completed. On Sunday the seabreeze arrived in the late morning, and racing resumed at 12:45 p.m. in 5-8 knots. The final race, 10B, started at 2:59 p.m., a minute before the deadline, completing 10 races in each division.
Heading into race 10B, Yale led Brown by one point, with Boston College four points further back. Yale’s B Division pair of Dorothy Mendelblatt ’28 and Genevieve Schmidt ’30 finished second in that race, while Boston College’s B boat was fourth and Brown’s was tenth. Yale won on 107 points, ahead of Boston College on 113 and Brown on 116. Stanford was fourth on 134 and Tulane fifth on 137.
Yale led Brown by one point going into the final race, and a second place from Dorothy Mendelblatt and Genevieve Schmidt sealed the title.
Yale’s A Division team of Morgan Pinckney ’27 and Ella Benedetto ’29 posted the best A Division score, 45 points. Mendelblatt and Schmidt, who won A Division at the Women’s Atlantic Coast Championship Final a week earlier, finished third in B on 62, level on points with Tulane. Boston College’s Alex Lech ’28 and Lanie Ferrarone ’28 were second in A on 50. Brown’s Tyler Lamm ’28 and Dominic Ciccimaro ’29 had the best B Division score, 54 points, and Brown’s A Division of Blake Behrens ’27 and Vera Allen ’27 took three of the first five races before finishing 16th and 18th in races 7 and 8.
Behind the top five, MIT was sixth on 157. Roger Williams and Dartmouth tied on 181, with Roger Williams seventh on the head-to-head tiebreaker. Navy was ninth on 195 and College of Charleston tenth on 198. Stanford, which won Round 1A of the qualifiers, finished fourth, and Georgetown, the Round 1B winner, finished 14th on 230.
Rhode Island Wins the Atlantic Coast Tournament Finals
Rhode Island won the Open Atlantic Coast Tournament Finals at Connecticut College with 77 points, 21 clear of Eckerd on 98 in a 17-team fleet. Hobart and William Smith was third on 104, Jacksonville fourth on 107 and Fordham fifth on 116. Rhode Island had the lowest score in both divisions, 42 in A and 35 in B.
A light northerly kept the fleet ashore on Saturday morning until a southwesterly filled in around 1 p.m., allowing seven races in each division. On Sunday one race per division was sailed in a northerly before another postponement, and a southwesterly at around 2:15 p.m. allowed two more, for 10 races in each division.
| Regatta | Host | Date | Winner | Second |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Atlantic Coast Championship | Brown | Oct 24-25 | Yale University | Boston College |
| Open Atlantic Coast Tournament Finals | Connecticut College | Oct 24-25 | University of Rhode Island | Eckerd College |
| Coast Guard Invite | Coast Guard | Oct 24 | Yale University | U. S. Coast Guard Academy |
| Yale Women’s Regatta | Yale | Oct 24-25 | Yale University (not yet marked official) | Stanford University |
| Norman Reid Team Race | Boston College | Oct 24 | Tufts University | Roger Williams University |
| Lake Virginia Invitational | Rollins | Oct 24-25 | Rollins College | Florida State University |
| Seahawk Showdown | UNC Wilmington | Oct 24 | Jacksonville University | North Carolina State University |
| Luce Trophy | Washington College | Oct 24-25 | SUNY Maritime College | Penn State University |
| Rebecca Blank Memorial Regatta | Northwestern | Oct 24-25 | University of Notre Dame | Ohio State University |
| Cedarfest 2026 | Michigan State | Oct 24-25 | Northern Michigan University | Michigan State University |
| Tom Curtis Memorial Regatta | Georgetown | Oct 23 | Georgetown University | U. S. Naval Academy |
| Navy Small Keelboat Regatta | Navy | Oct 24-25 | University of Tennessee | U. S. Naval Academy |
| Kiara Broudy Memorial | UC Santa Cruz | Oct 24-25 | Univ. of California at Berkeley | Univ. of California at Santa Cruz |
| KP Dinghy Open | Kings Point | Oct 24 | Fordham University (led after one race; regatta not completed) | SUNY Maritime College |
| Savin Hill Invite | Boston College | Oct 17 | Brown University | Boston College |
| Hatch Brown Trophy 2026 | MIT | Sept 19 | Yale University | Boston College |
| Mystic Lake Invite | Tufts | Sept 19 | Boston College | Roger Williams University |
Results from ICSA Techscore at time of writing.
Two More Yale Wins, and More From New England
Yale won its home Yale Women’s Regatta in Branford, Connecticut, tying Stanford on 118 points and taking first on the tiebreaker with more first-place finishes. Tulane was third on 146 and Tufts fourth on 156 in a 17-team fleet. Stanford’s Annie Sitzmann and Hannah Crompton won A Division with 38 points, Yale’s Audrey Foley and Annabel Woodworth were second in B Division, and Yale’s Carly Kieding and Maren Bradley were third in A. Techscore had not yet marked the regatta official at time of writing, but Yale, Stanford and Tufts have each reported the final standings.
Yale also won the Coast Guard Invite on October 24 with 81 points in a nine-team combined fleet. Coast Guard’s two teams finished second on 86 and third on 88, and Connecticut College’s first team was fourth on 90. After a wait ashore, seven races were sailed in a light 4-7 knot southerly with upwind current. An eighth race was started but abandoned when the breeze died at the weather mark.
Tufts went 9-1 to win the Norman Reid Team Race at Boston College’s Savin Hill Yacht Club, a six-team double round robin in 420s. Roger Williams was second at 7-3 and Brown third at 6-4. Tufts sailed with skippers Walter McFarland ’29, Teddy Bower ’30 and Grant Schmidt ’28, and crews Jack Poynter ’29, Sophia Corzine ’30 and Eliana Mopper ’30. Thirty races were completed in an easterly of 4-5 knots, with an ebb tide running through the day.
The Savin Hill Invite, sailed in 420s on October 17 and held over from last week, went to Brown with 40 points in a 16-team fleet. Boston College’s second team was second on 57 and Tufts third on 68.
September Results Now Official
The Hatch Brown Trophy, sailed at MIT on September 19 in three divisions of FJs, is now official. Yale won with 100 points in a 16-team fleet, posting the best score in both A and B Division. Boston College was second on 137 and Roger Williams third on 161. Brown and MIT tied on 167, with Brown fourth on the head-to-head tiebreaker.
Also sailed on September 19 and now official, the Mystic Lake Invite at Tufts went to Boston College with 136 points, ahead of Roger Williams on 193 and Boston University on 238 in a six-team combined fleet. The race committee reported many shifts, abandonments and delays before an easterly settled in for eight races on the Upper Mystic.
College Sailing Around the Country
Rollins won its home Lake Virginia Invitational in Winter Park, Florida, with 71 points, ahead of Florida State on 87 and Miami on 105 in an eight-team fleet. Fourteen races were completed in each division, in northerly breezes that built into the teens with gusts well into the 20-knot range on both days.
At the Seahawk Showdown at UNC Wilmington, Jacksonville won with 25 points, ahead of NC State on 29 and Jacksonville’s second team on 44 in a 13-team fleet. The race committee reported that NC State led for much of the day until Jacksonville’s B Division won all three races in the final set. Racing ended at 3 p.m. as sustained winds rose above 20 mph.
SUNY Maritime won the Luce Trophy at Washington College with 38 points, ahead of Penn State on 50 and Virginia Tech on 63 in a 17-team fleet. Six races were sailed in each division on Saturday, and no wind arrived on Sunday. The top six teams qualified for the War Memorial: SUNY Maritime, Penn State, Virginia Tech, Queen’s, Princeton and Washington College.
In the Midwest, Notre Dame won the Rebecca Blank Memorial Regatta at Northwestern with 66 points, ahead of Ohio State on 77 and Washington University on 80 in a 12-team fleet, with nine races in each division. Northern Michigan won Cedarfest at Michigan State with 28 points in a 13-team fleet, one point ahead of Michigan State’s first team and two ahead of Hope. Light wind limited Cedarfest to three races per division.
Elsewhere, Georgetown’s fourth team won the Tom Curtis Memorial Regatta at home with 8 points, ahead of two Navy teams on 17 and 20. Tennessee won the Navy Small Keelboat Regatta in Colgate 26s with 14 points, ahead of Navy’s two entries on 22 and 23. Berkeley’s first team won the Kiara Broudy Memorial at UC Santa Cruz with 43 points in a 24-team fleet, ahead of UC Santa Cruz on 48 and Cal Poly Maritime on 58. Light wind limited the KP Dinghy Open at Kings Point, described by the race committee as the first run by midshipmen, to a single race. Fordham’s first team topped the scores, and the race committee noted that the regatta was not completed.
Still Awaiting Results, and What Comes Next
Light winds severely limited racing at the Oberg Trophy, hosted by Northeastern. Rhode Island led the published standings, but the event had not been marked official on Techscore at time of writing, and Sunday’s attempts to complete more racing were unsuccessful. Several other college sailing regattas were also still listed as in progress at time of writing, including the NW Frosh Soph, the Dave Perry Trophy, the MCSA Match Race Championship and the Donaghy Bowl. The David Lee Arnoff, the Emma B. Memorial, Monroe Mania and the George Warren Smith ’22 Trophy are listed as pending. They will be covered once final.
The next college sailing weekend opens with the Kennedy Cup national championship finals at Navy on October 30. On October 31, Dartmouth hosts the Victorian Urn Trophy, Tufts hosts the Nickerson Trophy, Stanford hosts the PCCSC Women’s Fall Championship and the Top-9 Fall Invite, and Texas A&M Corpus Christi hosts the SEISA Fall Open Fleet Racing Championship.
