Southern New England Team Race

The 24th annual Southern New England Team Race Regatta was hosted by Connecticut College at the Hump in New London. The Sailors left the dock in a light Northerly that quickly switched to a WNW-WSW-W Breeze. Camel 1 was able to stay ahead of the left to Right and back again breeze. We finished round 1 at 4PM and started Sailing Round two, it became obvious to most coaches that the West and the North Breeze stopped mixing and created 4 races in a row with half the Fleet upside down or 4 autotacks on both beats. The RC and the Umpires decided that it was not a fair test of skill and called it earlier then we wanted to. A big Thank you to John Moulthorp, Bob Austin LaFrance, Tony Weiner, Emily Shanley Roberts and Mikey Gemperline for Umpiring today. Frank Pizzo was the ICSA rep (Piz-O)there is no E and the second Z is silent. The Camel Undgrads did a great job on RC rotating allday. There was a great vibe between coaches until I ended the day early , but I will finish round 2 on Sunday and then we can hug it out. I also asked the coaches not to speak to the Umpires direclty until the end of the day and to run all of their thoughts through the rep. I thought this worked well and the umpires appreciated not having to be involved in the coaches banter. The Camels Look foward to hosting more Team Racing on Sunday. Go NEISA!

Sunday Report Time is 930, with a 950 first Race. If you have questions Email or Call

Jeffrey Bresnahan (Camel 1) jcbre@conncoll.edu 860 867 6197

Happy St Patrick’s Day! What a great day to Sail on the Thames River. The W and the NW Breeze did a good job of blending most of the Day. The Breeze was perfect to crank out lots of races. Camel 1 and the Umpires did a good job calling races back to get restarted that did not meet our criteria. I apologize to those Teams and Coaches that felt we should have called more back. A Big Thank to John Moulthorp, Bob Austin LaFrance, Tony Weiner, Emily Shanley Roberts and Mikey Gemperline for Volunteer Umpiring today on this glorious Holiday. Thanks to the Camel Undergrads that helped with RC. Unfortunately, the Southerly made it up River and caused us not to be able to get the last Race in round 2 in under the Time limit. The second round stands since we got to at least 80% of the races sailed in the Round 2. Congrats to BC for Winning the SNE TR. I feel that we should have also honored the Coaches group hug, since we came up only 1 short of the second round. Hug it Out!