Sailing: Rams Wins McMillan, Sail Kennedy Cup, Open Atlantic Coast Trophy, Women’s Atlantic Coast Championship

by: Lucas Masiello ’24 ANNAPOLIS, MD – The Rhode Island Sailing Team competed in a number of late-season interconference regattas, winning the MacMillan Cup for the first time in 52 years and competing in the Women’s Atlantic Coast Championship and Open Atlantic Coast Trophy. Hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy, the McMillan Cup is the […]

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Sailing: Offshore Team Wins Chicago IOR, Podium at Larchmont

by Lucas Masiello ’24 CHICAGO, IL – The URI Offshore Sailing Team performed valiantly at the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta and Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta this fall, finishing first and third respectively. The offshore team swept the five-boat J/105 fleet at the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta (GLIOR), held Sept. 23-25 in Chicago at the […]

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Sailor Spotlight: Cooper Newton

by: Lucas Masiello ’24 GEORGETOWN, BAHAMAS- Gap years are often spent working, living at home or backpacking, but freshman Cooper Newton ’26 had far more lofty goals. A lifelong sailor, Newton spent 265 days solo at sea sailing 5,500 miles to the Caribbean and back from his home in Mattapoisett, Mass. Hundreds of cruising yachts […]

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