London Business School Stay top of the league
Jun 14th
Despite INSEAD’s win at the ABC regatta, London Business School’s second place keeps them at the top of the 2013 league, albeit with only 1 point seperating them from INSEAD.
The League table for 2013 only contains results from two regattas so far: the Global MBA Trophy and the Alumni Business Cup.
Kellogg/WHU, who were part of the “MBA Fastnet” team at the ABC, drop one place to third. AUEB also part of that team drop to fourth. HEC’s third place at the regatta means they come into the league in 5th place, level with Warwick, who missed the action in Marseille.
| School | LBS GMT Athens | ABC Marseille | TOTAL | Position | Number of Regattas | change | |
| LBS | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | = | |
| Insead | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | +1 | |
| Kellogg/WHU | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | -1 | |
| AUEB | 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | = | |
| HEC/ Trium | 8 | 3 | 11 | 5= | 1 | +3 | |
| Warwick | 4 | 7 | 11 | 5= | 1 | -1 | |
| Rotterdam | 6 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 2 | -1 | |
| Columbia | 8 | 6 | 14 | 8= | 1 | = | |
| IE | 7 | 7 | 14 | 8= | 1 | -1 | |
INSEAD Claim the Alumni Business Cup
Jun 5th
INSEAD’s Winning team
INSEAD’s All- Dutch team, led by Maarten De Vries, won the 21st ABCup, ending a three year period of LBS wins. The INSEAD crew won two sailing races, came second in three and third in three more, including – crucially – the shore games. Maarten and his crew have now won the trophy a record four times.
London Business School’s team “Blue”, skippered by Klaus Rasmussen and Rob Cotterill came second overall, and won the new “Stelton Sailing Trophy” for the team that won the sailing part of the regatta. LBS Blue had the same points, but more wins than De Vries’s INSEAD team, and so won on the water. They only managed 5th place in the on- shore games, which put them 2nd overall.
Winning the on- shore games with an impressive knowledge of wine tasting and art history, third place in the regatta went to the HEC/ INSEAD team, skippered by Philippe Lerique.
The Alumni Business Cup (ABC) has been held every year since 1992 in various locations across Europe. The 2013 edition was held in Marseille, France, based around the Islands of Frioul, just West of Marseille’s Vieux Port and Corniche. Six crews battled for the title: Two from INSEAD, two from LBS, One joint HEC/ INSEAD crew and a mixed team “MBA Fastnet”, made up of MBA alumni who are participants in the crew of a Volvo 60 Fastnet campaign. Organisers this year were Marc LeBorgne of INSEAD and Philippe Lerique of HEC. More >
The teams line up for the ABC regatta
May 28th
Seven teams are lined up to compete in the 21st Alumni Business Cup regatta in Marseille this week. Three from INSEAD, two from LBS, a combined “MBA Fastnet” crew, and an HEC/ Insead joint crew.
LBS and INSEAD should be able to consolidate their positions in places 1 and 2 of the league, as main competitors Bocconi, Cranfield and Warwick will not be attending.
Kellogg/WHU and Rotterdam are both providing team mates for the “MBA Fastnet” crew.
The 2013 League starts here
May 28th
With one event sailed, the 2013 MBA Sailing League is as follows:
| School | LBS GMT Athens | TOTAL | Position | Number of Regattas | |
| LBS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Kellogg/WHU | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| Insead | 3 | 3 | 3= | 1 | |
| AUEB | 3 | 3 | 3= | 1 | |
| Warwick | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | |
| Rotterdam | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | |
| IE | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 More > | |
First training on the Volvo Ocean 60
May 16th
April saw the MBA Fastnet team complete their first training weekend on the boat that will take them to the Rolex Fastnet Race in 2013, the Team Heiner Volvo Ocean 60.
The setting was Portimão, a laid back tourist village on the southern coast of Portugal. Although the wind was very light, the conditions were perfect for testing out and tweaking the setup on the boat which had only been in the water for a few days after being refitted, antifouled and made ready for the upcoming campaign.
Friday was off to an easy start, beginning with some basic boat orientation as well as sorting out the sails and giving the boat a final clean and polish.
With only a couple of knots blowing for most of Saturday, the team had a good opportunity to test out the new rig and different sails in a relaxed setting. As this was the first time we had sailed on this boat as a crew, there were a few maneuvers to be smoothed out and a few boat peculiarities to get used to.
Sunday saw the team almost completely becalmed until very late in the day and most of the day was spent on going over basics like tacking, spinnaker sets and gybes as well as some motivational speeches by Roy Heiner. The team has their work cut out for them as they prepare for their next milestone in the Rolex Fastnet Campaign, the delivery from Portugal to the UK in June. We look forward to seeing the whole team together for the next part of the challenge! Stay tuned for updates!
London Consolidate on top of the rankings
May 12th
London Business School’s first place in the Global MBA trophy means that they consolidate their place at the top of the MBA Sailing rankings, with their lead growing to 8 points over INSEAD.
Second Place in Athens’ Kellogg/WHU climb 3 places in the rankings to 8th. 3rd place INSEAD remain at second, while AUEB re- enter the rankings at 24th.
Bocconi, who missed the Athens regatta this year, while winning in 2012, slip one place to 4th while Cranfield rise to third. More >
The Dates for the Rest of the Season
May 9th
Now that the Global MBA Trophy – Athens has been sailed, we can confirm the remainder of the season for the MBA Sailing League.
Alumni Business Cup (ABC) in Marseille, France: Racing on 30, 31 May and 1, 2 June, with practice on 29 & 30 May .
Cranfield Regatta in Portsmouth and Cowes, England: Racing on 6 & 7 July.
RSM Regatta in Lelystad, Netherlands: Racing on 31 August and 1 September, with practice on 30 August.
Rolex MBAs Cup in Santa Margharita Ligure, Italy: Racing on 27, 28 and 29 September , with practice on 26 September.
To round out the season, and not counting for points in the league, the 10th Global MBA Trophy will be in San Francisco, USA: Racing on 1 & 2 November.
RSM Regatta: Details Announced
May 7th
The 4th RSM Regatta will take place on 30th August – 1st September 2013.
Full details are available on the MBA Sailing League’s regatta pages: here
Or on the regatta website: http://www.rsmsailing.com/event/rsm-mba-regatta-2013/
London Business School Win in Athens
May 7th
Photo: Tim Williamson
London Business School, helmed by Klaus Rasmussen, won the 2013 Global MBA Trophy on the Faliron Bay, off Microlimano, Piraeus, Greece.
The regatta was sailed in One- design 25ft “Platu” boats, provided by the Platu Class Association of Greece. The boats are normally sailed by their owners or by professional sailors on the match- racing tour, and were challenging and great fun to sail. More >
First training on the Volvo 60 this weekend!
Apr 8th
The team can’t wait to take the next exciting step in their Fastnet adventure. Over the coming weekend 12 – 14 April, the MBA Fastnet team is off to Portugal to sail the Volvo 60 in the bay of Portimão. With a forecast of 17 °C and winds around 12 knots we are expecting perfect conditions for our first training on the ocean racer. Since the Volvo 60 is a highly sophisticated racing boat and considering it is the team’s first experience on such a racing yacht it will take some time to get acquainted with all the special features and high-tech equipment before we hit the water.
Ultimately the moment we all are looking forward to most is our first experience of the boats performance out on the water – and our performance in handling the Volvo 60 and its 500 m² of sail surface. Bearing in mind the forces and loads we will be dealing with our initial state of exhilaration will most likely move quickly to a state of serious muscle ache.
This weekend will be intense and the MBA Fastnet team needs to get up to speed very fast, since this is the only “inshore” training on the Volvo 60 before having the pleasure of sailing the Volvo 60 in the conditions it was built for on our 1000 NM offshore delivery from Portugal to the UK.
For more updates, you can also follow the MBA Fastnet Challenge 2013 Facebook page!
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