Open Atlantic Coast Championship

The wind forecast was bleak for day one of the 2026 College Sailing Open Atlantic Coast Championship, hosted by Brown University at the Ted Turner '60 Sailing Pavilion at the Edgewood Yacht Club. However, a decent southerly began to fill in just after 2pm and racing began at 2:30pm after the long postponement ashore. The breeze was mainly south at 6-8 knots and we were able to get in 6 A-division races in FJs and 5 B-division races in 420s on W4 courses. Race 6A and 5B were saw the lightest races of the day as the sun was going down and the breeze began to fade to around 4-5 knots. The racing was awesome as the top 18 open teams in College Sailing battled it out for fall supremacy with a number of general recalls and very tight racing.

Thank you to David Thompson (Coast Guard Academy) for being the ICSA Representative and for lending a powerboat for the weekend for our judges. Thank you to our judges John Mooney, Brielle Willoughby, Mike Campbell, and Alex Kitay. They heard two protests that were both disallowed.

We will attempt to start race 6B at 10:00am on Sunday but the forecast is similar to day one.

Day two of the 2026 College Sailing Open Atlantic Coast Championship started with another long postponement ashore waiting for the seabreeze to fill in. A southerly began to materialize in the late morning and we had a 12pm harbor start for race 6B. It took awhile for the breeze to settle in and get above 4 knots consistently to start racing. Race 6B was started at 12:45pm as the wind built to 5-8 knots for the afternoon racing. We were able to get in 4 more A-division races in 420s and 5 B-division races in FJs for a total of 10 races in each division for the regatta. All courses were on W4's and race 10B started at 2:59pm, just before the 3pm deadline. Lots of sun and beautiful weather to close out the regatta.

Thank you to David Thompson (Coast Guard Academy) for being the ICSA Representative and for lending a powerboat for the weekend for our judges. Thank you to our judges John Mooney, Brielle Willoughby, Mike Campbell, and Alex Kitay. They heard one protest from Saturday's racing that was reopened with new evidence, resulting in a DSQ for Tufts in race 1A. Thank you to photographer Rob Migliaccio for taking great photos of all of the teams on Sunday. Final thanks to all of the Brown sailors who helped out on the weekend: Tucker Gibbs, Emily Shull, Quinn Brighton, Mara Oancea, and Andrew Lamm.

The racing was once again incredibly close and it came down to the last race to crown the 2026 Open ACC Champion. Yale was one point ahead of Brown with Boston College just a few more points back heading into race 10B. Yale's B-division of Dorothy Mendelblatt and Genevieve Schmidt sailed a terrific last race to clinch the Open Atlantic Coast Championship. Boston College and Brown University were next on the podium. Congratulations to Yale on a well sailed event!

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.