CASTINE — Maine Maritime Academy’s sailors Blake Burgess and Rinchen Harrison served notice on the New England college sailing community Saturday that the Mariners should be a force to reckon with when the fall regatta season begins in September.
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CASTINE — Maine Maritime Academy’s sailors Blake Burgess and Rinchen Harrison served notice on the New England college sailing community Saturday that the Mariners should be a force to reckon with when the fall regatta season begins in September.
Coach Tom Brown’s top dinghy crew traveled to New Haven to compete in the New England Frosh Single Division Championships for the 68th Allan L. Priddy Trophy. Sailing Flying Junior dinghies in 8-18-knot winds, Burgess and his crew scored three bullets and a third in nine races and finished third overall in the nine-boat fleet.
Burgess and Harrison were racing against freshmen from some of the nation’s top-ranked collegiate teams. They finished one point ahead of the crew from Dartmouth, ranked 10th nationally in the latest Sailing World coaches’ poll, and 18 points ahead of MIT, ranked 18th nationally.
Tufts, the regatta winner, has the 12th-ranked collegiate team in the nation. Second-place Boston College, which finished nine points ahead of the Mariners, is ranked sixth.
None of the 19 coaches participating in last week’s poll cast a vote for MMA. With dinghy victories in the Priddy last weekend and at the New England Dinghy Tournament early this month and the sloop team’s recent win in the Kruger Cup at the Coast Guard Academy, the Mariners may begin to draw some attention from college sailing’s bigwigs.
Stephen Rappaport, Waterfront Editor of The Ellsworth American, has lived in Maine for more than 20 years. A lifelong sailor, he spends as much time as possible messing about in boats.
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