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Tacking the trophyWhen Dartmouth cut the Bulldog sailers' lead to a measly one point late Sun., Oct. 11, Yale knew what to do. "We ran smart races," captain Karl Seibert, ES '99, said. "Our sailors were conservative and defensive." Dartmouth, led by rookie sensation Ryan Mahoney '02, failed to follow Yale's lead. Trying hard to overtake Yale in an A race, one of the Big Green's sailors leaned too far and fell out of the boat. Dartmouth could not recover from that ignominious tumble--the team finished that race in fifth. The Bulldogs, meanwhile, continued to extend their lead and took home the Ivy League championship in the form of the Mosbascher-Knapp trophy.The regatta, hosted by Cornell on windy Lake Cayuga, consisted of 14 A races and 14 B races. The boats sailed were 420s, which have two sails and hold two people each. Teams were given one point for a victory, two points for second place, and so on. Yale, which finished with the least total A and B points, was declared the champion. "From the time we won the first race," A-boat sailor KenJin Tan, ES '01, said, "we knew we had a good chance [at winning the trophy]. But it was really tense the whole way through. Even when we were racing, we were keeping track of our score." Yale's other winning sailors were Tom Bayliss, MC '99, Avery Patton, DC '00, and Betsy Cleveland, DC '01. --David Goldenberg
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