“It was one of our first big team racing events this season,” Jumper said. “We’re just trying to get as much practice in leading up to our big qualifier race at the end of the month.”

BOSTON UNIVERSITY TROPHY

Saturday saw a couple obstacles for the sailors—it was raining and the report time was late—but Harvard still competed at the Boston University Sailing Pavillion. A total of eight races in division A and 6 in B were completed all on course 4s.

A shifty easterly, ranging from six to ten knots in long oscillations, made the Crimson boats work to stay in phase and finish well.

With Sunday came much needed warmth but a swirling wind that demanded constant course changes came along with it.

Harvard finished in thirteenth place out of 18 boats in this competitive regatta. Still, its place does not indicate the Crimson’s performance.

“We did have good showings against some of the more competitive teams,” Jumper said. “But we didn’t necessarily perform as well as we wanted to against some of the teams that we should have done better against.”

Sophomore Luke O’Connor and freshman Rebecca Frankel sailed in the A division. Their 93 points tied the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, resulting in a head-to-head tiebreaker.

Although O’Connor and Frankel lost the tiebreaker, they managed two top-10 finishes, even placing first in their first heat.

Overall, Harvard finished with 175 points—far behind the Terriers, the home team and the victors—but on the heels of Northeastern and Boston College.

“It’s an ongoing process of trying to put all our boat handling and tactical knowledge together and execute,” Jumper said.

—Staff writer Kendra F. Rosario can be reached at kendra_rosario@college.harvard.edu.