9.11 - 9.12 Captain Hurst Bowl at Dartmouth

Saturday brought decent but shifty winds to Lake Mascoma.
8 races were completed in A and 6 in B. On Sunday it took a while for
the light breeze to fill in, but it was shifty too, and gave the young
Amherst Sailing Team trouble. The huge step up in competition was
daunting as well, but the team used the regatta as a great learning
experience for the rest of the fall season. scores

9.12 Northern Series One at Boston University

There was no wind until 12, and the breeze was extremely shifty in classic Charles River fashion, which posed problems for A Sailing as most shifty breezes seem to do. The A team of Seth Levin '01 and Dreux Chappell '00 battled for two races before succumbing to the allure of the river's seamy underbelly. In an attempt to check out the water's cleaniness first hand, Levin found it prudent to try capsizing for no reason in the light air on the first reach of the third race. After taking a bottom sample with the top of their mast, the A team passed the buck to the B team of Nadine Krupinski '03 and Sarah Short '02. Krupinski made her much awaited collegiate sailing debut, and showed good potential. Only three races were completed on modified triangles.

9.18 - 9.19 Hatch Brown Trophy at Boston University / MIT

Amherst proved that they learned their lesson from Capt Hurst Bowl
the previous weekend and improved drastically the next weekend at Hatch
Brown. Almost two different teams of sailors were sent on Saturday and
Sunday. The team showed that it can sail well against top competition
despite their inexperience, and continues to improve each week. scores

9.19 Invitational at Connecticut College

One race was attempted in A in light breeze before the cancellation of this regatta at 11:30am. Jay Harris and Dreux Chappell were set to race in A, while the freshman team of Nadine Krupinski and Adam McClay would have sailed B.

9.24 Singlehanded Elimination C at Coast Guard

This regatta to qualify for New England Singlehanded Champs was sailed on a Friday in Lasers after the remnants of Hurricane Floyd postponed it a week. Jay Harris and Peter Beardsley traveled to Coast Guard and were greeted with a 15-17 kt southerly that demanded top conditioning and athleticism from the sailors. The top 6 qualified for New England Singlehanded Champs. Six races were completed on Gold Cup and triangle-windward courses, and sailors were on the water until 7:15pm.

9.25 Invite at URI

The Amherst Sailing Team made its first trip in many years to URI to sail FJs in a nice 10 kt southerly. 7 races were completed in each division on modified triangle courses. Heather Werner '03 and Paul Heller '02 made their collegiate sailing debuts.

9.26 New England Series 3 at MIT

Some teams from the cancelled Invite at MIT came to this rescheduled regatta. Amherst fielded a team of all freshmen skippers, with Nadine Krupinski in A and Adam McClay in B, with experienced upperclass crews of Dreux Chappell and Willie Rogers, respectively. 10 races were sailed on the Charles River in FJs and Techs.

10.02 - 10.03 Cary-Price Intersectional at University of Michigan

Amherst took some getting used to the JY-15s and the breeze,
and showed good speed at times and bad starts at other times. An OCS
in race 6A that would have been a 2 hurt the A team, and starts were
extremely important on the very short modified triangles. scores

10.2 Donaghy Bowl at Mass Maritime

Light and shifty winds on Great Herring Pond on windward-leeward courses. Drew Foster and Elizabeth Grenley sailed A, and Sarah Short and Dreux Chappell sailed in B. 3-7 were separated by only 10 points in a very close regatta.

10.3 Protest Trophy at Mass Maritime

Sunday brought stronger breeze to the Pond, causing the A team of Foster and Short to capsize in one race. Francis from UMass pinch hit in the B division for the Jeffs, who had to replace a sailor from the day before.

10.10 NESCAC Regatta

Hosted at Tufts by Amherst, for the schools of the New England Small Colleges Athletic Conference (Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Conn College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan and Williams) We waited until 1:15pm and realized that the wind just wasn't going to fill in at Upper Mystic Lake. The regatta will be rescheduled for the Spring of 2000

10.16 Smith Trophy at MIT

scores

10.16 Invite at Boston College

10-20 kts of breeze in 420s. 6 races were sailed and the regatta was done by 1pm, much to the dismay of the Amherst team.

10.23 Invitational at Amherst

scores

10.30 RI State Champs at Roger Williams

Sailed at Bristol YC in FJs. The first set for A was held in a light northerly with mildly strong current. The A team of Beardsley and Rogers picked off 3 boats at the finish of the first race, and held a third place through the leeward mark of the second race, but chose not to roll tack every 10 seconds in the non existant breeze, allowing Tufts and UVM to propel themselves ahead. After a two hour postponement, the regatta resumed in a 6-9 kt southerly. 4 races were completed on modified triangles.

10.30 Invite at Boston University

3-8 kts on the Charles in FJs. 6 races were sailed in each division. The A team of Harris and Robin Goldman sailed well, but were over early twice and hit the windward mark in another race. The B team of Emily Fleury and Lindsay Clarke started the day on fire with a 2 and a 4, but slipped a bit from there.