The Harvard coed sailing team finished up its season this weekend with the Atlantic Coast Tournament. The conditions really put a damper on the tournament as only four of the 16 scheduled races actually took place.

Connecticut College hosted 18 teams down on the Thames River in New London in this two-day competition. This intersectional regatta involved “FJs,” a specific type of boat through races across two divisions.

The Crimson failed to qualify for the Atlantic Coast Championship earlier this season, so this weekend’s regatta marked the definitive end for the entire team.

“It was a challenging event with poor racing conditions,” Mollerus said. “We did not preform our best but left with many take-away points on areas where we can improve."

Only four sailors went south to represent Harvard on the water. Sophomores Andrew Mollerus and Sydney Karnovsky paired up for the A division while senior Luke O’Connor joined freshman Julia Lord in the B division boat.

The Crimson finished 14th overall despite its 13th place finishes in both the A and B divisions. There were only four races in total.

The poor weather conditions presented the toughest challenges for the competitors this weekend.

“There was light wind and it rained a lot,” Mollerus said. “There were very unusual conditions and made for a poor racing performance.”

The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association did not provide more information on the specifics of the conditions, but the sailor’s provided enough emphasis to show their disappointment.

“There wasn't much wind on both Saturday and Sunday,” Karnovsky said. “Due to the lack of wind, most of us had the mentality to just try to enjoy the last weekend as much as possible and sail as well as we could.”

“With poor wind conditions there were a lot of delays in between races, but we did our best to stay ready,” Mollerus said. “We did our best to stay focused and ready.”

Mollerus and Karnovsky finished with 43 points. They finished one rotation in third place, which ultimately would have been Harvard’s lowest score of the weekend.

In the B division, O’Connor and Lord racked in 45 points, with their best race also being the second rotation, where they finished in 7th place.

Besides these two single-digit finishes, the Crimson failed to score lower than the 11th place for any of its other rotations.

“We were sailing on a river, which has a lot more current than we are used to so the water was moving under us much faster,” Mollerus said.