The spring season has been action-packed for Bates sailing, on and off campus.  With helmsman Tommy Holmberg ('13) living the nomadic life in Mongolia for the semester, the team saw some young sailors step up and have great spring seasons.  At the Veitor Trophy at CGA Edward Moan ('14) and Katlyn Flynn ('15) opened up Saturday's competition winning the first two races in B division.  After three sets on Saturday Moan and Flynn were still winning B division with only 18 points, leaving coach Mike Horn speechless.  What happened Sunday is not all that important.

Special thanks to Sam Wells ('15) and Helen Chyz ('14) for being awesome.  EWOF II was a success.

After spectacular sailing at Veitor the team is looking to get back into New England Dinghy Champs at Harvard.  This weekend the squad will be racing at the Dinghy Tourney at Salve hosted by UNH, and must place either 1st or 2nd to qualify.  David Pierce ('12) has his game face on, and he and his trustworthy crew Camilla Nivison ('14) are looking to go out on top.  Edward Moan and Katlyn Flynn will be representing Bates in B division and are carrying momentum from their performance at Veitor (on Saturday) into the Tourney.

Be sure to keep updated on live scores this weekend on tech score!

We've just added a new donations page to our website to raise money for new equipment, including a new coach boat for the fall season!  Thank you for your help!

We have finally added an Alumni page to our website! Our hopes are that we can initiate a better way for alumni communication, and that we can solidify a sailing alumni network.  Hopefully this will help us plan events such as the annual alumni regatta, and also allow alumni to express interest in receiving newsletters and fundraising publications.  We also want alumni to be able to find one another after graduation, as well as make it easier for current sailors to communicate with alumni for advice, hosting, cheering squad recruitment, etc...

So...we will be working on the page, and it will hopefully be useful and productive in the near future...

For now, spread the word, bookmark the Alumni Page and email ccalahan@bates.edu if you have any direct suggestions for how we could really solidify a Bates Sailing alumni network!

So to anyone following our website in the offseason, we have a few updates to keep you busy!

First- We finally have schedules for Spring 2012 & Fall 2012 in PDF version on the Schedule & Results portion of the website

Second- We updated our officers page, so congratulations again to all of them!

Third- We are going to start thinking early about the 2012 Alumni Regatta, so Alumni look out for an email regarding potential weekends.  If you have preferences, please do not hesitate to email ccalahan@bates.edu so that we can hopefully get the best turnout next fall!

Happy Holidays and we'll be back in 2012!

So this weekend we successfully wrapped up our fall season, and finalized our schedule for 2012.

Yesterday, Tommy & Eddie, with the help of Daniel Vannoni '05, attended the NEISA scheduling meeting at MIT with the other teams of the conference to decide who would sail where come the new year.  They got us into a few intersectionals, and we are very excited for what we have in store. 

Last night, we had our year-end banquet with our Coach Peter Garcia, followed by awards and elections for our new officers.  Thank you to everyone who showed up for this and congratulations to our new officers:

Captains- Tommy Holmberg '13 & Eddie Moan '14
Treasurer- Camilla Nivison '14
Secretary- Libby Egan '13 & Helen Chyz '14
Fundraising- Eve Boyce '13
Maintenance- Alex Francis '14
Social Chairs- Will Fubini '14 & Jamie Beres '15 

So that concludes our fall coverage of Bates Sailing, and we will be back in early March when the drysuits come out and we go out to brave the cold for our spring season.  Tommy Holmberg will be going abroad next semester, so we wish him the best of luck in Mongolia!

The fall sailing season came to a close this weekend at the Atlantic Coast Tournament, hosted by Jacksonville University at the Florida Yacht Club.  Ten teams competed on the St. Johns River in the warm Florida weather.  Sailing in A division: David Pierce '12 and Camilla Nivison '14, and in B division: Edward Moan '14 and Katlyn Flynn '15.

Once the breeze filled in Saturday afternoon, the Bobcats performed up to expectations and finished the day in eighth place.  There wasn't enough breeze on Sunday to race, so the late-regatta charge ended in eighth.  The Bobcats had to settle for relaxing by the pool in Florida with fellow NEISA sailors--a much-deserved reward after the conditions at Schell two weeks ago.  After racing was officially canceled, there was enough time for a trip to the ocean before headed back to the airport for our return flight.


Results

Photos

We are so excited to report that this has been the most successful season for Bates Sailing in recent history. 

First off, the Irwin Schell regatta at MIT. This is the fall New England Championship, and Bates had not qualified for four years. By winning the Wellehan Trophy last month, we clinched the necessary district ranking of 18th and headed down to Boston. 

The team was David Pierce '12, Tommy Holmberg '13, Camilla Nivison '14, Edward Moan '14 and Katlyn Flynn '15. We were the only uncoached team at the event, we had never sailed the boats (Techs) and we were ranked behind every team at the event. We were feelin good about it. 

David and Cam went out for their first race and got a fourth. Then Tommy and Katlyn snagged a seventh in their first set. Right off the bat and for the first several sets we sat in an unprecedented 14th place. By the end of the first day, David, Cam and alternate Eddie (it got REAL windy) were in 17th place in the A division and Tommy and Katlyn were sitting pretty in 12th place in B. Our goal was to not get last and we were in 16th. Any boat we beat was a boat ranked ahead of us. We were feeling good about it. 

Day 2, lots of breeze, lots of crew switches and lots of wind shifts. We dropped down a bit to 17th of 18- our A boat closed in 17th place and our B boat finished in 15th. We are proud to report that this is the BEST the team had EVER performed at the event. 

Our finish at this event qualified us to compete in Florida this past weekend at the Atlantic Coast DInghy Tournament. Report is that we placed 7th of 9! Extended report to come from THE Eddie Moan. 

RESULTS!

SCHELL

ADT 

So this weekend, Bates Sailing sent four fine sailors to the mysterious waters of Jacksonville, FL to compete in the year's ACTs!!!!  We are thrilled to have qualified for this event, and see it as a measure of great success this season! We wish David Pierce '12, Camilla Nivison '14, Eddie Moan '14 and Katlyn Flynn '15 the best of luck!  Click here for live results.

Bates sailing just had a huge weekend. All season we have been competing in the NEISA rankings to be in 18th or better by the end of the season. The top 18 teams qualify for the Irwin Schell regatta (Fall New England Championship). Well, we did it. The bobcats have not qualified for Schell since 2007, but we are very proud to have finally done it.