The oldest trophy in intercollegiate sailing will be battled for under very brisk conditions on this coming weekend. Harvard and MIT are looking forward to cranking off many very efficiently managed races for you.
Weather is going to be brutally cold with a very fresh westerly on Saturday and less pressure more from the North on Sunday. Please bring multiple changes of gloves, hats, and very thermal socks. MIT will have a grille going on the dock which everyone is welcome to use at anytime. Parking is usually abundant on Mem Drive Westbound. The Hayward Street Lot is also available despite the signage. http://whereis.mit.edu/ Boat rotations will take place from the MIT docks throughout the event. There will be adequate space inside the boat bays at the pavilion for gear bags as our rec program is not quite open for the season. We do wish to keep the bags out of the classroom area once racing gets going so there is adequate heated space for sailors and subs to get warm. Report time is 10 on Saturday due to crew races and 930 on Sunday. Full event SIs are attached. Please forward us your starting line ups so we might be able to pre-load Tech Score ahead of time. Firefly Rigging Tips are available in video here- http://sailing.mit.edu/videos/ The carbon tech dinghy division will be sailed as an isolated event. Sailors are welcome to switch from one regatta to the other at will. Techs will not be rotated so teams can take care of their own boat if they decide to not race in a set. These boats are completely different from the fifth gen tech dinghies. At almost half the weight, they do not carry much momentum for luffing around a windward mark and heeling to windward on a run is an exciting ticket to a swim. They plane very easily. Again, Harvard and MIT are looking forward to hosting a fun, gnarly and super competitive battle on the Rivah. -- Franny Charles MIT Sailing Master Jack Wood Sailing Pavilion 3 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02142 Pavilion 617-253-4884 Office 617-253-2875 Mobile 857-221-0828 http://sailing.mit.edu/ _______________________________ Michael O'Connor Head Sailing Coach Harvard University 65 N. Harvard St. Boston, MA 02163 857-998-0782 [email protected]
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