The Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League

The organisers of the 2017 Global MBA Trophy have confirmed that it will take place from Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th April. The regatta returns once again to Piraeas, near Athens, Greece, where it will be hosted by the Yacht Club of Greece.

More details at the regatta page on mbasailing.com:  https://mbasailing.com/regattas/globalmbatrophy/

Also at the event website:  www.globalmbatrophy.com

Places are limited in the A division to one boat per school participating.  It is expected that these will be snapped up when places go on sale in the New Year.

The 2017 IE Winter Regatta will be on 9- 12 March.

The Regatta again takes place in Puerto Calero, Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.

This is the fifth edition of the regatta, and it will be the first time that it forms a part of the Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League.

At the end of  Northern Europe’s winter, the regatta returns its sailors to warmth and sunshine.  The regatta will be based out of Puerto Calero in the Canary Island of Lanzarote. Exciting sailing and racing can be assured in J80 sportsboats.

Included in the €2,500 package price are: Boats from the 10th – 12th, Accommodation at the Marina for 3 nights, Breakfast & lunch on Friday & Sat. Drinks and dinner on Thu, Fri and Sat.

The regatta is organised by Instituto de Empresa (IE) Business School. Previous winners were RSM in 2016,  LBS in 2013 and 2015 and Manchester Business School in 2012.

There  will be a “B” division in 40ft boats for the racers who prefer to be a bit further away from the water…

There’s an “early bird” offer of  €2,250 per boat for all teams that sign up before December 19th.  Email sailing.club@ie.edu for more details and to sign up.

MIT’s sailing team posted their third successive victory at the Rolex MBA’s Cup regatta in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy in September.

The team from Cambridge MA won two of the four races in the regatta finals, coming second in a third, to post a net score of 4 points.  Second place were Columbia, with three second places and a third, posting 8 points. INSEAD came home third, with 7 points, winning the second race.

The finals were raced on the Sunday, in J80 Sports boats and with the aid of top Italian coaches on board each boat. Continue reading “MIT retain the Rolex regatta title”

Skolkovo sailing team retained their RSM regatta title at the start of September in Medemblik, the Netherlands.

The crew from Moscow won 14 out of 17 races, never coming lower than 4th in the 6- boat fleet.  They won the regatta with 22 points, compared to second place RSM’s 42. Continue reading “Skolkovo win in Medemblik”

Moscow’s Skolkovo sailing team keep the top spot in the 2016 Sunsail MBa Global Sailing League despite their second place in the Cranfield Regatta.  Their lead is now down to 4 points. The Russian school has 4 points from three events, while new second place school, LBS has 8.

INSEAD slip a place to third, while Henley, Kellogg/WHU and Cranfield shoot up the table following their high placings at the Cranfield regatta to lie 4th, 5th and 6th.  Continue reading “Skolkovo keep the 2016 top spot”

London Business School, the 2014 Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League champions won the Cranfield regatta  on the 9-10 of July, in the Solent on the South coast of England, to end a losing streak that’s lasted since they won the same regatta in 2014. LBS won with three first places and two seconds.

For the first time since they have competed with them, they finished ahead of the main Skolkovo crew. The Russian team have dominated the league since The Global MBA Trophy in April 2015.  Skolkovo came second on the Solent, winning one race and coming third in two. Continue reading “London Business School Return to Winning Ways”