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...fine season came to a sudden end last weekend as the Harvard coed sailing team finished seventh in the Atlantic Coast Championships (ACC) qualifiers at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., failing by one place to gain a bid to next weekend's championship regatta...
Sixteen top New England teams vied for six spots in the ACC at King's point, N.Y. After placing near the top of the fleet in every regatta this season, including a second-place finish two weeks ago in the Schell Trophy Regatta, the Crimson expected the qualifiers to be a breeze. But by the end of the weekend, Yale was holding on to sixth place and Harvard was furling up its sails for the long winter...
...America skipper Jim Bowers once again sailed to the top of his fleet, holding on to first place in the A-division for most of the regatta. However, the B-division support that had helped carry Harvard all year proved to be Harvard's Achilles heel in the weekend's races. Skipper John Dickson and crews Jen Drohan and Alex Barker could not keep pace with their competition, sinking Harvard into seventh...
...weekends ago, during the Head of the Charles Regatta, a crack appeared in the corner of a large pane of glass at the Carpenter Center. And this past weekend, one of Memorial Hall's smaller stained glass windows was broken...
...next week's Victorian Urn Regatta on the Charles, the unofficial New England fall championship for the coed and women's squads, the women will return to the usual format of fleet racing. The crowds may not compare to those at the Head, but the stakes will be just as high...