College Season 2026-27, Week 8

The Open Atlantic Coast Championship came down to a single race in college sailing’s Week 8. At the regatta hosted by Brown, Yale led by one point going into the last B Division race and closed it out to finish six points ahead of Boston College.

Yale also won the Coast Guard Invite and its home Yale Women’s Regatta for three wins on the weekend. Rhode Island won the Open Atlantic Coast Tournament Finals at Connecticut College, and Tufts went 9-1 to win the Norman Reid Team Race.

The next college sailing weekend opens with the Kennedy Cup national championship finals at Navy on October 30. On October 31, Dartmouth hosts the Victorian Urn Trophy, Tufts hosts the Nickerson Trophy, Stanford hosts the PCCSC Women’s Fall Championship and the Top-9 Fall Invite, and Texas A&M Corpus Christi hosts the SEISA Fall Open Fleet Racing Championship. – Full report

2026-27 Season

2026 Fall National Championships:
Nov. 7-8: Women’s and Open Singlehanded Nationals – American Yacht Club; Rye, NY
Nov. 14-15: Match Race Nationals – Balboa Yacht Club; Newport Beach, CA

2027 Spring National Championships:
Apr. 29-May 1: Open Team Race Nationals – United States Naval Academy; Annapolis, MD
May 1-3: Women’s Team Race Nationals – United States Naval Academy; Annapolis, MD
May 18-21: Women’s Dinghy Nationals – United States Naval Academy; Annapolis, MD
Jun. 1-4: Open Dinghy Nationals – United States Naval Academy; Annapolis, MD