George Warren Smith Trophy

George Warren Smith was a professor of aero-astro at MIT and enjoyed racing star boats from the Cape Ann Fleet into his late eighties. Many weekends during the spring and fall seasons were spent helping run collegiate races at MIT. This regatta is an opportunity for many sailors to have a chance to compete for a trophy in a one day format impacting less of their academic study time.

Eight Races were sailed in both divisions in a 5-8 knot northerly. A Division started in the New Collegiate Firefly Dinghy and switched to the technical dinghies after lunch. B sailed techs first and finished in Flies. The Tufts Jumbos rallied in the last set to thwart a hard charging MIT Team as well as a consistent BU Terrier squad which led most of the day.

Two teams did not show which actually worked in everyone's favor as we were able to sail both divisions simultaneously in both fleet's of boats.