CNU Sailing

The regatta began with 12 new boats on site and perfect wind conditions. The shifty 5-6 kt Northerly let some teams really put to use the team racing skills they have been honing. Two full rotations were completed on Saturday that consisted of 56 races. Our judges, which consisted of two US sailing trained judges on one boat and another boat of former college sailors, made for very fair racing. Calls were made in about every third race. One protest was heard on land and cost CNU their perfect record.

Sunday morning had Colgate and Maryland sailing a tie-breaker after a short wind delay with Colgate moving on.  The fleets were then divided into Gold and Silver and 6 more races were completed in each division. The double full rotation worked well and seemed the only format because of only having 12 boats.  Over the course of 68 races each team sat out for a total of 8 races. If we had chosen to start in a two division format, the number of sitting sailors would have tripled.

Needless to say, our team sailed well. Working to perfect our 2-on-2 sailing has done much to improve our sailing in general and our understanding of the rules in particular. Right now, we are just sorry we don’t have more 2-on-2 events in which to compete. We will be sailing in the Army 2on2 at West Point later in the spring. We expect this discipline to draw more and more interest and the spring of 2010 should see even more 2on2 events to compliment the growing interest in 3-on-3 racing among the biggest teams.

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