After a tough weekend sailing in Newport at the Salve Regina Southern Series, the sailing team will look to rebound in Rhode Island at Brown University's Dellenbaugh Trophy regatta.
Additional teams heading to Yale for the Ferrarone Trophy regatta and Tufts for the Centennial Series.
In the Southern Series at Salve Regina, DJ Hatch '11 skippered in Division A with crew Leah Hughes '11.
Billy Rohmann '11 sailed in Division B with crew Ben Berg '12. In a fleet of 20 teams, Bowdoin placed 13th overall, with Hatch and Hughes finishing in 14th, and Rohman and Hughes finishing in 12th.
In the fleet, there were "a lot of top players," said Coach Frank Pizzo.
Pizzo said that competing in a very deep field at Newport—one of the bigger college sailing venues—was a great experience.
"This weekend was about player development for the younger sailors," he said. "What kind of killed us was starting in the big fleets. We were pretty anxious on the starting line."
The teams had some trouble making tactical decisions.
"The wind was pretty light and shifty, but then there were streaks that rolled down the course, which made tactical decisions very important because if you weren't in the right place you would just get crushed and passed," Hatch said.
One team will race in the Yale Ferrarone regatta this weekend, with another team sailing at Boston University.
"It will be good to get a first sense of where we stack up against some of the real good teams in New England," Pizzo said.
The same team that raced at Salve Regina will race in the Central Series at Tufts, "giving them more good experience with big fleet sailing in a quirky venue," Pizzo said.
"[Assistant coach Mark Dinneen] and I are excited about a young team with a lot of potential," he said.