NEISA Women's Singlehanded Championship

Day one of the 2025 NEISA Women's Singlehanded Championship started on a Friday this year with a 2pm report time. There was no wind until around 4pm when a Southeasterly breeze filled in. 4 races were sailed from 4:30pm until 6:45pm for the ILCA 6 Women's fleet on W4 courses with the wind from 6-10 knots from the S/SE. No protests or breakdowns were reported.

Competitors arrived on day two of the NEISA Open and Women's Singlehanded Championships at the Ted Turner '60 Sailing Pavilion/Edgewood Yacht Club to beautiful weather and a earlier than expected South/Southeasterly that began to fill in around 9:45am. An on time start of 10:30am took place for the Open fleet in ILCA 7's and the Women's fleet in the ILCA 6's started about 12 minutes later. All races were W4's and approximately 20-24 minutes for the Women's fleet and 25-30 minutes for the Open fleet who had a windward mark further upwind with 31 boats. A maximum of 8 more races per fleet were scheduled with the first four races in the 7-10 knot range on Saturday. We were able to get in the last four per fleet in a building and shifting right breeze to the South that increased to 12-16 knots as the temps warmed up to the mid 70's. The waves also increased as the tide switched in the the afternoon and started going out against the wind, which made for some awesome surfing conditions and grinding hard upwind. In the end, 8 races were sailed on day two in each fleet by 3:30pm in incredible open water conditions. All 12 races on the schedule were completed for the 15-boat women's fleet and 11 total of the 12 for the 31-boat Open fleet. The racing was fierce and there were a lot of tired sailors at the end of the day. We had a wide range of conditions over the two days, with flat water, great waves, and winds between 6-16 knots. No protests and only one redress was filed in the Open Fleet resulting in average points awarded to Ben Reeser from Coast Guard in race 9.

A huge to the everyone who helped make the event happen and run smoothly: Brown sailors Charlie Case '26, Lake Gifford '27, Ali McIntyre '27, Kyoko Tonkin '29, Corinne Harrison '27, Michelle Kaneti '29, and Owen; Mike Kalin as the NEISA Representative; Judges Brad Dellenbaugh, Scott Pakenham, and Mike Campbell; and Photographer Rob Migliaccio for the awesome photos throughout the weekend. Thank you to the following teams for bringing powerboats for coaches/judges: Harvard, URI, Coast Guard, Yale, Roger Williams, Moses Brown School, and the Edgewood Sailing School.

A huge congratulations to Okyanus Arikan '26 from the University of Rhode Island on winning the NEISA Women's Singlehanded Championship with 30 points in 12 races and to Robby Meek '27 from Harvard for winning the NEISA Open Singlehanded Championship for the Monotype Trophy for the second year in a row with 30 points in 11 races. Both of them receive Automatic Qualification to the College Sailing Women's and Open Singlehanded National Championships in November at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. The rest of the field from NEISA will be announced in mid October by the College Sailing Selection Committee.

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.