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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY. MARCH 28, 1978
Team earns intercollegiate honors
Sailors enjoy travel, competition
By MAYVIE LUBY
“It’s dirty, rotten to the core,
mean and I love it,’ said Texas
A&M University sailing team
member Doug Shelton. He was re
ferring to the highly competitive
sport of intercollegiate sailboat rac
ing.
Last semester Texas A&M
finished third in the Southeastern
Intercollegiate Sailing Association
(SEISA) competition. Competitors
included the University of Texas
which is ranked seventh in the na
tion, Tulane University ranked
eleventh. Rice, Baylor, University
of Dallas, Florida State, University
of Florida and others. ..
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Intercollegiately, the team races
420 boats which are 16 feet, holding
two persons. In general, the skipper
steers the boat and the crew adjusts
the sails.
The team travels to New Orleans,
Florida, Houston and Dallas to
compete in about six intercollegiate
regattas each semester.
Last semester Texas A&M cap
tured fourth place in the Baldwin
Wood regatta in New Orleans, the
biggest intercollegiate event of the
year. It was intersectional, meaning
people competed from universities
outside of SEISA with the Illinois
team being a top competitor. Texas
A&M won their invitational regatta
and took second place honors in
both the UT invitational and the
Baylor fall regatta. The team
finished third in Tulane’s regatta in
October.
This semester the team received
top honors in the Rice regatta with
competitors such as the University
of Southern Louisiana, Baylor, Rice
and UT. In the Ensey Memorial re
gatta sponsored by Baylor, A&M
took a second place and finished
third in the Tulane invitational.
In the 420 intercollegiate events
there are two divisions, A and B.
Universities enter one boat per
class. Scoring is calculated on a low
point system, meaning a first place
boat would receive a one and a sec
ond place would receive a two.
Upcoming events for the team in
clude singlehanded championships
in Florida April 1 and 420 dinghy
eliminations in Austin April 8.
These regattas are eliminations for
national competition this summer.
will be the 1975 national sea explor
ing 420 champion, Doug Shelton.
A&M regatta participants are
selected from the approximately
20-member team. To be eligible to
attend regattas, one must place first
or second in elimination races which
are held on the Sunday prior to the
regatta. The short, triangular race
courses are set up on Lake Some-
rville. Also, one must belong to the
Texas A&M sailing club, have prior
sailing experience and regularly at
tend the Tuesday night meetings.
“Even though we are up against
good competition in SEISA, ’ said
team captain Greg Schertz, our
women’s team has proven that they
have an excellent chance of qualify
ing for the national competition by
their results in recent eliminations
and regattas.”
During the five hour practice ses
sions under the coaching of Pete
O’Connell, members rotate among
the five 420s until each skipper has
sailed each boat. Scoring is kept on a
low point system, with the top two
skippers being the ones to represent
Texas A&M. The skippers then
choose their crew.
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Four Texas A&M team members
will travel to Florida for single-
handed eliminations April 1. Races
will be held in Lasers, which are 16
foot, one person boats. Jon Salis
will help represent the Aggies with
his experience in sailing Lasers to
23-25 foot quarter-ton boats. Other
A&M participants have not been
selected.
Advisors for the team and club are
William Anthony and Jerry
Mainord. Anthony helps the team
by locating accommodations during
regattas and Mainord is the sailing
club advisor on financial affairs and
distributes keys for access to the
boats during the weeks.
Representing Texas A&M in the
eliminations for the national sea ex
ploring championships May 20-21
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In regard to the team O’Connell
said, “We have good sailors but the
equipment we have to work with
isn’t good enough to keep our sailors
up to par with the rest of the teams
in SEISA. He added, “I would like
to see us win all of the SEISA cham
pionships.
As an overview of next semester,
Shelton said, “I believe our biggest
problem will be finding someone to
replace Greg Schertz as team cap
tain. The reason being that next
year’s team will be made up mostly
of freshman and sophomores and
there won’t be many who have the
experience that he does.”
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THE SHUTTLE ERA
Members of the Texas A&M Sailing Team workout dm
five-hour practice sessions at Lake Somerville,
coaching of Pete O’Connell, the team races against schoolsj
the Southeastern U.S., for a shot at national competition[
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February grants totaling
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