Updated Calendar for the rest of 2011

September
22- 25 Bocconi Regatta 2011
Organiser: Peter Keresztes


October

Sat8- Sun 9
(Sunsail Autumn Series)
Organiser: Brendan Laing

Fri14- Sun 15
Alumni Challenge
Organiser: Rob

November

(Sun 6)
(Sunsail Series Final)
(Orgainser tbc.)

Wed 23
Annual Dinner at RORC
Organiser: Rob

London Business School Retain the ABC trophy

London Business School raced hard on the final day to retain the Alumni Business Cup Trophy, held in the waters off Venice Lido last week. The Alumni Business Cup, hosted this year by MIP Politecnico Di Milano is one of the premier events in the MBA Sailing league calendar, with the focus very much on the racing: up to 12 races over three days in a fleet of identical Salona 37 yachts.

The participants were: Insead (with three boats), Athens, Chicago Booth, fresh from their victory at the Global MBA Trophy in Rhodes, Columbia, a joint HEC – Insead boat, a joint IE- Rotterdam boat, IMD, LBS, MIP and WU, Vienna.

Thursday, day one of racing saw no one crew dominant. Insead 1 came first in two of the races, but also got a 3 and a 5. Columbia and IMD won the other two races of the day, pulled in a second place each, but also scored low on the other two races, while LBS was consistent, bringing in three thirds and a second. At the end of play, just 4 points separated these four: Insead on 10, LBS and Columbia on 11 and IMD on 13. Races were windward- leeward, twice around on a very short course because of the lack of wind.

That evening was the “onshore game” – unique to this regatta – where crews compete in a different contest to mix up the scores a bit and give the less strong racers a chance to shine. This year’s game involved cooking a “finger food” meal in 45 minutes and giving a presentation on a theme of travel & exploration. This shook up the rankings, with IMD scoring first place, with a presentation involving an elephant and a princess, LBS coming third, dressed up as astronauts, while Insead 1could only manage 6^th and Columbia were relegated down the field with 12^th. Points from the game count towards the regatta result and cannot be discarded.

Friday was incredibly frustrating: The race committee had only just started the fifth race, when they were informed of an upcoming storm by the coastguard. This led to the race being shortened to just the one lap, and then racing being abandoned. Frustratingly, the storm passed over the mainland and the sailing area was pretty much unaffected, leaving many disgruntled crews.

Mixing up the results somewhat, Insead 2 won the race, with IMD in second and Columbia in third. IMD finished the day with a lead of 4 points on 10, with LBS on 14, Insead 1 on 16 and Columbia on 22, and Insead 2 on 24.

Saturday’s racing was much more exciting, with a decent wind at last for races 2- 4. LBS were first to the top mark in the last three races, crossing the line in second place in the first three of the day, and then romping home minutes ahead of the next boat in the final race. Columbia had crossed the finish line ahead in race 3, but were disqualified for being over the start line before the start, which gave LBS another first place. The other two races were won by Insead 1 and the hosts, MIP, while IMD had a bad day, bringing home an 8,3,4,3.

As a result, and after discarding 2 results, LBS won the regatta with 17 points, 3 ahead of IMD on 20 and 5 ahead of Insead 1 on 22. Columbia could not come back from their disastrous onshore performance, and scored 32. Counting sailing results only, LBS also won with 14, followed by Insead 1 with 16, IMD with 19 and Columbia with 20.

Chicago Booth, without their winning skipper, could not repeat their strong form from the Rhodes regatta, coming in last in eight of the races, to win the very fine “wooden spoon” trophy for last place overall.

London Business School are 2010 MBA Sailing League Champions.

LBS Alumni skipper, Ben Grossman, accepted the MBA Sailing League Trophy on behalf of London Business School's Sailing and Alumni Sailing Clubs at the Global MBA Trophy regatta prizegiving on 30th April.

The trophy will be on display at the Business School until April 2012.

The MBA Sailing League is a season of four international regattas between teams of business school students and/or alumni from across the world, held at four European venues each summer.

The MBA Sailing League rankings are calculated by adding together a team’s scores in each of the four MBA sailing regattas that make up the season. Following the 2011 Global MBA Trophy in Rhodes, this comprises the ABC 2010 in La Ciotat, the Cranfield Regatta 2010 in the Solent, the Rolex MBA’s Cup 2010 in Santa Margharita Ligure, and the GMT 2011.

Here's the story from mbasailing.com:

Cranfield, Bocconi rise, Rotterdam fall down the rankings.

An all British podium:

1 London Business School

2. Warwick Business School

3. Cranfield Business School

Despite their very poor showing at the Bocconi regatta, London Business School had enough in the bag to be able to weather their 18th place and still end 2010 as MBA SAiling League champions.

Bocconi’s first place improved on their 2009 result of 10th, and means that they rise six places into the top 10, lying 8th overall. Cranfield’s second, along with their 5th in the Cranfield regatta means that they rise five places to take a spot on the end of year podium.

Warwick’s steady performances through the year, and their 5th place in Sta Margharita earn them second overall.

On the downside, Rotterdam give up their second place, and drop to 4th as their 19th place in Italy wrecks their chances.

London Business School won the inaugural MBA Sailing League trophy by winning the ABC regatta, coming second in the Cranfield regatta, and by being one of only two schools who attended all four of the season’s regattas in Athens, La Ciotat (France), The Solent (England) and Santa Margharita Ligure (Italy).

Newcomers to the rankings, MIT Sloan, come straight in at number 21. IESE come in at 25th, while Duke drop out of the rankings altogether. Other climbers include IMD, who attended the Bocconi regatta for the first time, while the other big losers include Oxford Said, dropping 5 to 23rd, losing their points for attending in 2009.

School	LBS GMT Athens	ABC La Ciotat	Cran-field Solent	Bocconi Sta Margh-arita	Total	Position	Change
LBS	4	1	2	18	25	1	=
Warwick	15	8	7	5	35	2	1
Cranfield	21	13	5	2	41	3	5
Rotterdam	3	13	8	19	43	4	-2
Manchester	21	13	4	11	49	5	2
Insead	1	5	37	9	52	6	-2
Exeter	21	13	1	21	56	7	-2
Bocconi	5	13	37	1	56	8	6
Smurfit	21	13	3	21	58	9	-3
Kellogg/WHU	10	10	37	4	61	10	=
MIP Milano	2	2	37	21	62	11	-2
Henley	21	13	12	21	67	12	-1
Bath	21	13	13	21	68	13	-1
Portsmouth	21	13	14	21	69	14	-1
Imperial	21	13	18	21	73	15	1
IMD	21	4	37	11	73	16	6
Sauder	21	13	37	3	74	17	=
Columbia	18	13	37	7	75	18	3
WHU	21	13	37	5	76	19	4
HEC	21	6	37	13	77	20	-6
MIT Sloan	21	13	37	7	78	21	10
IE	20	13	37	9	79	22	-3
Said	19	12	28	21	80	23	-5
WU	21	3	37	21	82	24	-4
Aberdeen	21	13	29	21	84	25=	-2
IESE	21	13	37	13	84	25=	6
Chicago	21	13	37	15	86	27=	-2
Wharton	21	13	37	15	86	27=	=
Harvard	21	11	37	17	86	29	-2
Leeds	21	13	32	21	87	30	-4
Ashridge	21	13	36	21	91	31	-2

6th again in Sunsail Series 3

London Business School repeated their 6th place in the third regatta of the Sunsail series on April 3rd/4th. This was despite managing to mess up the spinnaker flying in as many ways as we could imagine.

In race 1, the crew managed to hoist the spinnaker sideways (clew attached to halyard), which didn't help the speed or control of the boat much, nor did it make for an easy gybe. In race 2, the boat was up with the leaders when the spinnaker was dropped.....and dropped all the way into the sea, where it effectively stopped the boat dead and allowed 3 boats past.

In race 3, there were no spinnaker problems, and the crew finished a strong third. A position that would have been possible n race 4 also, had we not launched the spinnaker between the lifelines, entailing a 5 minute re- rigging operation which lost us places. Later that race, the spinnaker halyard sprang free as we were dropping it.

So all in all, good practice and plenty of mistakes that won't be made again, but not our finest performance on the water.

Joel and his crew came in a creditable 14th, even getting the spinnaker up a couple of times.

Results posted below.

Skipper	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Total	Position
Tom Taylor	1	5	1	1	3	1st
Benedict East	3	1	6	3	7	2nd
Liam Gardiner	2	3	2	4	7	3rd
Chris Brouard	4	4	4	2	10	4th
Edward Harrison	6	2	5	5	12	5th
Klaus Rasmussen	8	7	3	7	17	6th
Kevin Richardson	5	6	7	8	18	7th
Stuart Harding	7	11	8	6	21	8th
Alexandre Chagoubatov	11	10	10	10	30	9th
Iskander Rakhimov	9	8	18	14	31	10th
Neil Pritchard Meaker	16	13	9	9	31	11th
Kevin Toon	10	12	11	12	33	12th
Vadim Volkovoye	12	9	13	13	34	13th
Joel Shinners	13	17	15	11	39	14th
Paul Robinson	15	14	14	20	43	15th
Vladimir Phillips	17	15	12	17	44	16th
Jim Dunn	14	22	16	15	45	17th
Alexey Tyurin	19	22	17	16	52	18th
Ivan Starostin	20	16	19	18	53	19th
Vladimir Chumak	18	22	20	22	60	20th
Gleb Borukhov	22	22	21	19	62	21st

LBS sixth in Sunsail Racing Series 1

The LBS team at the first Sunsail racing series regatta of 2011 in the new Benneteau F40s came a very creditable sixth, despite being becalmed and unable to finish the only race on Sunday.

The full results are here.

http://www.sunsail.co.uk/yacht-racing/sunsail-racing-series/results?CID=racing_enews_mar

The picture is of Sunsail 4020 - us - winning a really good pin- end start in the second race.

Alumni Sailing Club Programme 2011

Alumni Sailing Club : 2011 Calendar

Note: Events in Brackets are tentative and will only take place if organiser and skippers can be found. Any volunteers?

March

19-20
Sunsail Spring Series
Organiser : Rob

April

2-3
Sunsail Spring Series
Organiser : Rob

(17-18)
(Solent Quest)
(Organiser: tbc)

Thu 28th - Sun 1st May
The Global MBA Trophy - Rhodes, Greece.
Event Organiser: Michalia,
Team organisation: Mark/ Ben

May


date tbc.
Summer BBQ

June

Wed 15 - Sun 19 June
Alumni Business Cup
Venice
Organiser: Rob

Fri 24 - Sat 25 June
(Sunsail Scorcher Day)
(Organiser TBC)

July

Fri 15- Sun 17
(Sunsail Summer Series)
(Organiser: tbc)

Fri 22- Sun24
Cranfield Regatta, Solent
Organiser: Klaus




August

Fri 19- Sun 21
(Sunsail Summer Series)
(Organiser: tbc)

? 26- 28?
RSM Regatta 2011
Organiser: tbc

September

? 22- 25?
Bocconni Regatta 2011
Organiser: tbc


October

Sat 2 -Sun 2
(Solent Quest)
Organiser: Tbc

Sat8- Sun 9
(Sunsail Autumn Series)
Organiser: Tbc

Fri14- Sun 1
Alumni Challenge
Organiser: tbc

November

(Sun 6)
(Sunsail Series Final)
(Orgainser tbc.)

? Thu 17?? Annual Dinner at RORC
Organiser: Tbc

LBS wins the 2010 MBA Sailing League title

More coming later!