Calendar 2022

 All Alumni and Students welcome to most events.

We'll be doing most of these: Watch out for emails nearer the time.


The Alumni Challenge: 11-13 March

Global MBA Trophy (Greece): 7 - 10 April

IESE Spring Games Regatta (Barcelona): 22 - 24 April

POLIMI Regatta - Capri: 26 - 29 May

RSM Regatta (Porto)  30 June - 3 July

IE Haloween Regatta  29 October  - 1 November

The Annual Dinner at the RORC: TBC November

Calendar 2020

All Alumni and Students welcome to most events.

We'll be doing most of these: Watch out for emails nearer the time.


The Alumni Challenge: 4-5 April

IESE Spring Games Regatta (Barcelona): 20- 22 March

Global MBA Trophy (Greece): 23- 26th April

ABC - Hamburg: 21 - 24 May

RSM Regatta (Porto)  2-5 July

Bocconi MBAs Cup (Italy), TBC Sept,

The Annual Dinner at the RORC: TBC November

LBS Alumni Sailing Club Calendar 2017

All Alumni and Students welcome to most events.

We'll be doing most of these: Watch out for emails nearer the time.

MBA Winter Regatta (Lanzarote): 9 - 12 March.

Sunsail Chiller: 19 - 21st Feb

(Sunsails on 11-12, 25-26 Mar and 8-9 April

Sunsail 1: 11 - 12th March

Sunsail 2: 25 - 26th March

Sunsail 3: 8 - 9th April

Global MBA Trophy – Greece: 28- 30th April

ABC: TBC June, Location TBC.

Sunsail 4: 17 - 18th June

The Regatte do Infante: TBC June, Porto, Portugal

Cranfield Regatta: TBC July, The Solent, UK

Sunsail 5: 22 -23rd July

RSM Regatta  TBC Sept , Netherlands

Sunsail 6: 23 - 24th September

Bocconi (Portofino), TBC Sept, Italy

the Alumni Challenge Regatta  (Sunsail 7): 7-8th October

Sunsail 8: 21-22nd October

Sunsail Final 2016: TBC November

The Annual Dinner at the RORC: TBC November

LBS Alumni Sailing Club Calendar 2016

All Alumni and Students welcome to most events.
 
We'll be doing most of these: Watch out for emails nearer the time. 

MBA Winter Regatta (Lanzarote): 18- 21st Feb.

Sunsail Chiller: 19 - 21st Feb

Sunsail 1: 4-6th March

Sunsail 2: 18-20th March

Sunsail 3: 1-3rd April

Global MBA Trophy – Greece: 21- 24th April

ABC: 9-12 June, St Petersburg, Russia.

The Regatte do Infante: 25 June, Porto, Portugal

Cranfield Regatta: 8-10th July, The Solent, UK

Sunsail 4: 15-17th July

Sunsail 5: 19-21st August

RSM Regatta  1-4 Sept , Netherlands

Sunsail 6: 16-18th September

Bocconi (Portofino), 29 Sep - 2 Oct, Italy

the Alumni Challenge Regatta  (Sunsail 7): 7-9th Octobe

Sunsail 8: 21-23rd October 

Sunsail Final 2016: 12 November

The Annual Dinner at the RORC: TBC November

LBS Alumni Sailing Club Calendar 2015

All Alumni and Students welcome to most events.
 
We'll be doing most of these: Watch out for emails nearer the time. 

MBA Winter Regatta (Lanzarote): 19- 22nd Feb.

Sunsail Chiller: 28th Feb - 1 Mar

Sunsail 1: 14th & 15th March

Sunsail 2: 28th & 29th March

Sunsail 3: 11th & 12th April

Global MBA Trophy – Greece: 16th-19th April

ABC: 28st to 31st May, Le Havre, France

Cranfield Regatta: 10-12 July, The Solent, UK

Sunsail 4: 18th & 19th July

Sunsail 5: 22nd & 23rd August

RSM Regatta  27-30 August, Medemblik, Netherlands

Sunsail 6: 19th & 20th September

Bocconi (Portofino): 24 -27  September

Sunsail 7: 10th & 11th October  }

Sunsail 8: 24th & 25th October  }   One of these to be the Alumni Challenge Regatta

Sunsail Final: 14th November

Alumni Sailing Club: Updated Calendar for 2013

Details of all the MBA Sailing Season events at http://mbasailing.com/

• Sunsail Sailing Challenge - Offshore - 2 x Isle of Wight 16-19/5/13
• ABC, Marseille - 29/5 - 2/6/13
• Sunsail "Summer Showdown"  15-16/6/13
• Cranfield 5- 7/7/13
• Sunsail 4 13-14/7/13
• Cowes Week 3- 10/8/13

• Sunsail 5 17-18/8/13
• RSM Regatta, Lelystad  30/8 - 1/9/13
• Sunsail 6 21-22/9/13
• Bocconi, Sta Margharita Ligure 26 - 29/9/13
• Sunsail 7 5-6/10/13
• Alumni Challenge 19-20/10/13
• Global MBA Trophy, San Francisco 1- 2/11/13
• Sunsail Final 17/11/13

LBS Win the Global MBA Trophy, Athens 2013

London Business School, helmed by Klaus Rasmussen, won the 2013 Global MBA Trophy on the Faliron Bay, off Microlimano,  Piraeus, Greece.

The regatta was sailed in One- design 25ft “Platu” boats, provided by the Platu Class Association of Greece. The boats are normally sailed by their owners or by professional sailors on the match- racing tour, and were challenging and great fun to sail. The regatta took place on 26 and 27 April, with training on 25 April.

LBS “Red” repeated Bocconi’s feat from 2012 of 4 first place finishes, finishing 3rd in the first race and 2nd in the 5th.  Second place went to Kellogg/WHU, skippered by Ingrid Van Wees, who won the two other races, and got 2nd place in two others, holding onto second place despite a disqualification for a Port- Starboard incident in the 4th race. Third place was won by the INSEAD/ AUEB joint venture led by Spiros Papantoniou.

The winning LBS Team were made up of: Klaus Rasmussen: Helm, Rob Cotterill: Trim, Mark Buckle: Pole, Joel Shinners: Pit, Veronique Leroy: Bow.

Warwick had a fine second day, bagging three third places, which was enough to see them land fourth place overall, above the second LBS boat, RSM and the joint RSM/IE boat.

Rank		Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Total	Nett
1st	LBS Red	3	1	1	1	2	1	9	6
2nd	Kellogg/WHU	1	5	2	DSQ	1	2	19	11
3rd	INSEAD/AUEB	2	6	3	2	4	4	21	15
4th	Warwick	6	4	5	3	3	3	24	18
5th	LBS Blue	7	2	4	4	5	5	27	20
6th	RSM 1	4	7	6	5	6	6	34	27
7th	IE/ RSM	6	3	7	6	7	8(DNF)	37	29

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!

London Business School Stay top of the MBA Sailing League!

After our results at Cranfield and at the ABC, we're 18 points clear at the top of the league with only the Bocconni regatta to come... We'd need to be 24 places behind RSM there to lose our slot. Hopefully there won't be 24 boats in the "A" fleet!

More details at the MBASailing.com site:

The MBA Sailing league combines business school's results at the four MBA regattas which take place every summer: At the Alumni regattas in Athens and the ABC in France as well as the Student regatta in Italy and the open Cranfield regatta.

School	Bocconi Sta Margh- arita ‘09	LBS GMT Athens	ABC La Ciotat	Cran- field Solent	Total	No of Reg- attas	Posi tion	Chg
LBS	11	4	1	2	18	4	1	=
Rotterdam	12	3	13	8	36	3	2	+7
Warwick	6	15	8	7	36	4	3	=
Insead	4	1	5	37	47	3	4	-2
Exeter	15	21	13	1	50	1	5	+18
Smurfit	15	21	13	3	52	1	6	+1
Manchester	15	21	13	4	53	1	7	+22
Cranfield	15	21	13	5	54	1	8	-2
MIP Milano	15	2	2	37	56	2	9	-5
Kellogg/WHU	2	10	10	37	59	3	10	-5

Second Place in the Cranfield Regatta 2010

The Alumni Crew could not defend their title from 2009, coming in second behind a crew from Exeter University Business School.LBS's student crews came in 17th and 26th.

Cranfield Regatta site: http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/mba/regatta
This was the 19th annual Cranfield regatta, held on the Solent in Sunsail's fleet of identical Jeanneau Sunfast 37s.

Business Schools from all over the UK took part, along with teams from Rotterdam School of Management, and Smurfitt, Dublin. In all, there were a record 36 boats participating, 17 from Cranfield and 19 from other schools.

It was a much more competitive event than for the last couple of years, with strong crews from Manchester and Smurfitt battling it out for second place, and Rotterdam, Warwick, Henly, Portsmouth and a couple of Cranfield boats being there or thereabouts.

The winners, Exeter, were piloted by a hired "Sunsail" skipper, similar to the Bradford team who won in 2008. They won three out of the five races sailed, discarding one of the two other third places.

The LBS Alumni team managed only 3rd, 4th and 3rd on day 1, and a fourth in the first race on day 2, but salvaged some pride with a first place in the final race, after Exeter haad already secured the trophy. The relatively poor showing could well have something to do with taking strategic decisions on day 1 based on tidal data for mid August (more about this later!). Second place was down to consistent starts and upwind sailing, along with some very slick manouevres and good downwind speed.

Crew: Helm: Klaus Rasmussen, Main: Mark Buckle, Trim: Rob Cotterill, Trim - pole: Miranda Hall, Pit: Fiona Cotterill, Nav/grind/dowse: Emily Murphy, Mast: Thomas Von Othegraven, Bow: Veronique Leroy.

Unfortunately, this couldn't be achieved with an undamaged boat, after an incident with Manchester Business School during the second race pre-start.

The LBS Student 1 boat was helmed by Ben Grossman in his first regatta behind the wheel, with Howard Farbrother there as coach, and starting helm. They struggled on Saturday, with a 23rd and a 27th, but brought in a 12th and a 17th on Sunday to add to their one good result from saturday, a 13th.

For those who are interested, here's the regatta as seen from the LBS Alumni crew.



Race 1: The race started near Gilkicker point and we started well, with the tide pushing us over the line. We were stuck on starboard for a while, but managed to tack onto port and head over to our preferred right hand side of the course, where we believed there was slightly more tide helping us, as it had just changed. Unfortunately, with most of the fleet staying out, most of the fleet got the heavier breeze, and we were stuck with lighter airs in to shore. Which meant that when we got to the first mark we were lying sixth, and the supposed tide advantage had not materialised. The Manchester crew in 33 had done an incredibly good beat and were well ahead of the fleet at that point.

On the first downwind leg, the kite went up with a bit of a fumble with the sheet, but we still managed to overtake one of the boats ahead, on the way down to the buoy "Browndown". Rounding Browndown, we stayed out in the deeper water, getting the benefit of the tide which was now running strongly and managed to reach the top mark lying in fifth. Our super- fast spinnaker launch meant we overtook two boats while they were launching theirs, and we sailed well on the Island shore, keeping out of the tide in a steady third place. 33 came up behind us, forcing us into a luffing match so that we had to go up high to keep them out and then gybe, and ended up coming in third, behind Exeter and Smurfitt.

Race 2: From now on, all the racing was based around the Ryde middle bank and Osbourne bay, starting near the East end of the bank. During the pre- start, Manchester's helm decided to hook his nose behind our stern and round up. Unfortunately, he didn't bother giving us any warning, or allowing himself any control, and he ended up shunting our port pushpit with his bow's anchor guide, causing the pushpit leg to shear off and creating a crack in the fibreglass on our stern.

Totally uncharacteristically, we did not make a big fuss about it and enter a five minute long shouting match, but got on with the start. (Not much point in a protest - there were no witnesses, so as upwind boat, we'd probably have lost)

Another good start. This time we tried to get right to get into the tide while the pack were heading over the Ryde middle banks. We had a reasonable beat with reasonable wind, but once - again the left hand side paid, and the boats came screaming in from the left to leave us 7th or 8th around the top mark. A good hoist, and a run down onto the Osbourne bay sands. We stayed shallow by going relatively high and fast and then bore away. In doing so we overtook a lot of the competition. There were a lot of wind changes as we came up to Daks, the Gybe mark. We actually had to drop the spinnaker and go upwind on white sails to reach the mark, after a 45 degree shift.

We re- hoisted at the gybe mark, and with the new wind direction did not have to gybe. We staked in the shallows of Osbourne bay as long as possible before heading across the deeper waters towards the downwind mark. Putting in a gybe took us past a boat and came around the bottom mark, very close to the boat in third. Manchester had lead around the top and the gybe marks,a long way ahead of the following pack. But they headed towards the wrong mark, had to gybe late, and then scream down on a beam reach, to round it only just ahead. The other two boats ahead of us were - again- Smurfitt and Exeter.

On the last upwind, we again headed right, which went reasonably - got a nice header and then were lifted up towards the line. Unfortunately, we were headed just a few boatlengths from the line, and had to tack twice which allowed 6 to pip us to third place in the race. Smurfitt won, Manchester were second


Race 3: The most frustrating of today's three. The start was heavily pin- end favoured with 40 degree wind shifts, and (unfortunately for us) a sudden lull with a minute to go. This meant that our five - knot charge towards the pin end turned into a two- knot drift.. We still got there. We were still there at the right time, though, at least compared to the top boats in the field.

Deciding to go left for once, as our tidal strategies to the right had not paid off yet, we picked our way through the slower boats and made it to the top mark in second place behind Jeremy Renwick's "Cranfield 2" boat, who were having their race of the regatta. Our spinnaker was up and filling as we bore away from the mark, taking first place in the process. It was then a drag race down towards the gybe mark, Daks. Had to gybe at the mark, inside Cranfield 2. There followed a luffing match all the way to the down wind mark, which we came out of on top.

The drag race continued, this time on a fetch towards the buoy "Sunsail" on the Ryde middle bank. Confusingly, the tide which was "supposed" to be slack was reading a good knot and a half against us as we sailed up the bank. Exeter and Smurfitt tacked away to get into deeper water. We held off Cranfield. Smurfitt lost out. Exeter had overstood and fetched the mark really fast to arrive behind us. The line was further upwind from here. We were struggling with our boat speed - possibly because of the pressure of being chased.

We tacked away to put some leverage between us and the following pack. Which did not pay off. We had wind holes and very bad shifts as we reached the line. Exeter overtook. Cranfield overtook just as we were about to cross the line: all very frustrating. Manchester and Smurfitt were equally hurt, coming in 12th and 9th in this race.


The frustration of getting 3- 4- 3 was relieved somewhat when we worked out that Rob had used tide data from 10th August instead of 10th July. Which explained why Left was best in the first race and also why the "slack" expected tide was actually powerfully against us.

At the end of day 1, we were lying second, behind Exeter who had two wins and a third, and ahead of Smurfitt and Manchester who's third race disappointments had pushed them behind us. However, they both had two good results, so we needed to sail very well on Sunday when their discards came into play.

Day 2, Race 4: A bad start: well positioned but slow to head up and speed on. We went South of the bank, using the correct tide data - which proved to be the right option. It took us to the upwind mark in fourth or fifth, and we were unable to claw back more than the one position in the downwind. "Cranfield 5" sneaked across the line ahead of us, with Exeter and "Cranfield 16" ahead of them. Exeter's third bullet meant that they were unbeatable, and we had to concentrate on securing second place. Manchester were jsut behind us, but we could not see Smurfitt.

Race 5: Time to discard one of those 4th places: This was our most exciting race and also our first bullet. We started reasonably well, halfway down the line, and we chose to go over the bank and into the faster water on the South side. Smurfitt and Exeter both went North. Luckily for us, we got a couple of nice wind shifts, to again get to the top mark in 4th.

We had a terrible hoist: taking ages to get the spinnaker up. Luckily when it filled it was not twisted, and we got it sailing. Despite losing some places while the kite was flapping, we managed to pull them back relatively quickly on that leg. We had a big tussle with Warwick, who were upwind boat but would not keep clear when we wanted to head up. Once they did, we managed to put several boat lengths on them.

At the gybe mark, we put in a very fast, early gybe which gained us 2- 3 places. Exeter, for some reason carried on on the starboard gybe, rather than heading towards the mark. At the mark, we again went South of the bank, taking us to second place at the upwind mark. From here it was a drag race between us and Smurfitt all the way to the finish at Mother Bank: We went high to get past them and then held them off, rolling around, on the edge of being over powered and entering into Chinese gybe territory.

Smurfitt finished second, Exeter third and Manchester 5th after RSM.

Race 6 was postponed with 2 minutes to go as the wind shifted 40+ degrees, and after 10 minutes or so of waiting for the wind to settle, the committee called off the regatta, as they could not set a new upwind leg without moving the fleet, which meant that they ran out of time.

		Race
Position	Team	1	2	3	4	5	Total
1st	Exeter	1	3	1	1	3	6
2nd	LBS Alumni	3	4	3	4	1	11
3rd	Smurfitt	2	1	9	18	2	14
4th	Manchester	4	2	12	5	5	16
5th	Cranfield 16	6	6	5	2	9	19
6th	Cranfield 5	8	14	7	3	7	25
7th	Warwick	7	7	6	9	8	28
8th	RSM	5	18	14	8	4	31
9th	Cranfield 3	11	10	4	7	14	32
10th	Cranfield 2	10	11	2	13	21	36
11th	Alumni 2009	9	5	24	10	12	36
12th	Henley	13	22	10	6	10	39
13th	Bath 1	15	8	15	11	11	45
14th	Portsmouth	12	16	13	17	6	47
15th	Cranfield 11	1	17	17	22	16	51
16th	Cranfield 9	22	15	20	14	13	62
17th	LBS 1	23	13	27	12	17	65
18th	Imperial 1	14	9	19	24	24	66
19th	Bath 2	21	19	18	19	15	71
20th	Cranfield 8	16	29	16	21	19	72
21st	Cranfield 12	20	25	22	15	22	79
22nd	Cranfield 15	37	12	8	23	37	80
23rd	Cranfield 6	17	20	23	25	23	83
24th	Imperial 2	24	24	26	16	20	84
25th	Cranfield 10	19	23	29	27	18	87
26th	LBS 2	25	25	31	20	25	95
27th	Cranfield 14	37	27	11	26	32	96
28th	SAID	18	28	21	37	37	104
29th	Aberdeen	37	21	37	28	27	113
30th	Cranfield 4	37	31	28	31	26	116
31st	Cranfield 1	37	26	25	34	33	118
32nd	Leeds	37	32	30	29	30	121
33rd	Cranfield 7	37	30	32	35	28	125
34th	Cranfield 13	37	33	37	32	29	131
35th	Bath 3	37	34	37	30	37	138
36th	Ashridge	37	37	37	33	31	138