Devlin and senior Genny Tulloch will also join Johnson and Kovacs at the singlehanded championships this weekend. The two posted first- and second-place finishes in the New England Women’s Singlehanded Championships in September to qualify.

WOMEN’S SAILING

The Crimson’s women had a tricky time during the weekend, finishing 18th of 19 teams at the Yale Women’s Intersectional. With the water embroiled in a heavy chop and the breeze consistently blustering at 20 knots, Yale’s open-ocean course subjected sailors to extremes for which they could not have prepared.

Captain Daphne Lyman’s boat, skippered by freshman Elyse Dolbec, finished 18th in the A-division with 64 points. With sophomores Kristen Lynch at skipper and Cassandra Niemi at crew, Harvard finished 17th in the B-division, with 60 points.

“There were huge waves that we aren’t used to,” Lyman said. “We haven’t had any wind in practice, so we haven’t practiced in breeze and chop.”

Compounding the team’s difficulties was its small size. Lyman described her 235- to 240-lb. boat as especially light even for women’s racing.

“Because we were so light and so inexperienced and had such intense conditions, we were really not able to perform as well as we should have,” Lyman said.

Yale’s boats each won two of their four races on Saturday, combining for a scant 18 points to win the regatta.