The George Warren Smith Trophy

Professor George Warren Smith was a fixture for many years by assisting NEISA run college races almost continuously for 20 plus years. He was a competitive star boat sailor and was active racing out of Sandy Bay YC in Rockport into his nineties.

Wonderful NE breeze at 8-13 with continuous drizzle and rain throughout. A division sailed Fireflies and then switched to Tech Dinghies after Race 9 with B Division doing the opposite type of boat. The Jumbos from Tufts put on a clinic as the breeze was streaky and they read the ripples like a text book.

Many thanks to Tom Robinson, Hanna Vincent, Wally Corwin, Ian Campbell, and Conan Hom for their assistance with keeping everything flowing and tech score updated.

Franny Charles MIT Sailing Master

A lighter breeze which was feebly pulsing in and trying to get into the north from the northeast made for strategic racing conditions. Good starts and being on the first favored tack paid off again for the Tufts Jumbos whose players won both divisions with less than half the overall points of the second place Brown Bears.

Breeze evaporated as Race 15 concluded so regatta was concluded as no puffs were consistently more than 3 knots. Thanks to Hanna Vincent, Stephen Duncan, Julia Cho, and Wally Corwin.

Franny Charles MIT Sailing Master

The following chart shows the relative rank of the teams as of the race indicated. Note that the races are ordered by number, then division, which may not represent the order in which the races were actually sailed.

The first place team as of a given race will always be at the top of the chart. The spacing from one team to the next shows relative gains/losses made from one race to the next. You may hover over the data points to display the total score as of that race.