London Business School won the Cranfield regatta in emphatic style, winning four out of the five races, and discarding a second place.
The regatta took place on 25 and 26 July 2009 in the Eastern Solent on the South coast of England. LBS have been competing at the Cranfield regatta for almost a decade, but have only won it twice – in 2007 and 2009. Cranfield’s own “Buccaneers” came in second with a very strong first day’s 2,2,1. Smurfit made up the podium.
The full results and details of the regatta can be found here
Cranfield MBA Regatta 2009
| Boat Num | Team Name | Skipper | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 3 | Race 4 | Race 5 | Total | Position |
| 8 | LBS | Klaus Rasmussen | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1st |
| 32 | Buccaneers (Cranfield) | Jeremy Renwick | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 2nd |
| 25 | Smurfit | Steve Hayes | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 15 | 3rd |
| 13 | Bath 1 | Stuart Horlock | 22 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 4th |
| 3 | Cranfield 1 | Simon Rooke | 10 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 5th |
| 26 | Cranfield 5 | Richard Tarr | 11 | 24 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 26 | 6th |
| 14 | Bath 2 | Steven Noble | 7 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 29 | 7th |
| 27 | Bradford University School of Management | Sunsail – Dave Price | 3 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 33 | 8th |
| 7 | Judge | David Mason | 14 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 36 | 9th |
| 2 | Cranfield 4 | Robin Annett | 5 | 12 | 24 | 9 | 10 | 36 | 10th |
| 21 | Cranfield 2 | Sunsail – Geoff Beckett | 6 | 21 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 37 | 11th |
| 35 | Cranfield 8 | Bill Stean | 12 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 38 | 12th |
| 16 | Warwick | Chris Best | 8 | 7 | 21 | 11 | 13 | 39 | 13th |
| 11 | Cass | Tim Coffin | 17 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 7 | 41 | 14th |
| 5 | Cranfield 7 | Johannes Tinsobin | 15 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 22 | 48 | 15th |
| 20 | Henley | Mel Petrie | 9 | 16 | 14 | 22 | 11 | 50 | 16th |
| 1 | Cranfield 6 | Derek Jones | 19 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 14 | 57 | 17th |
| 6 | Alumni 2 | Gareth Watkins | 13 | 19 | 16 | 21 | 17 | 65 | 18th |
| 28 | Alumni 1 | Kevin Lee | 23 | 17 | 17 | 14 | 18 | 66 | 19th |
| 34 | Cranfield 9 | Adrian Thornton | 20 | 18 | 24 | 18 | 12 | 68 | 20th |
| 37 | Exeter | Mark Roberts | 16 | 22 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 74 | 21st |
| 30 | Cranfield 3 | Andy Holloway | 21 | 15 | 19 | 23 | 21 | 76 | 22nd |
| 29 | GISMA | Matias Gorfinkiel | 18 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 24 | 77 | 23rd |
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