Alumni Business Cup – The MBA Global Sailing League

ABC regatta 2024 cancelled

28 March 2024

Message from the organisers of the Alumni Business Cup 2024:

The IE and LBS Sailing Clubs regret to announce that the 2024 edition of the Alumni Business Cup in Alicante will not be held as scheduled on 13-15 June. Logistical challenges, and the weekend falling during peak season in the Alicante sailing calendar, meant that we would have been unable to deliver the regatta at the advertised price.

While we are disappointed not to be able to host you in Alicante this June, we hope to be able to put together the event at another time in the near future. Thank you for your understanding, and please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.

ABC Regatta moves to Spain for 2024

6 February 2024

The Alumni Business Cup is the longest running of the MBA regattas, dating back to 1992. The 2024 edition will be sailed in J/22 boats in the Mediterranean Sea off the Spanish sailing venue of Alicante. The dates are 13- 16 June.

Up to 4 crew can sail the J/22s, and the cost per boat is €2,360. A “B” divisionsailing cruising boats is available for teams of up to 8, at €4,720 per boat. More details on the ABC regatta page at mbasailing.com. Also at the ABC web page and the 2024 edition sign up page

Reichman win in Kiel

4 September 2023

The team from Reichman University in Israel won the 2023 Alumni Business Cup regatta. The event was hosted by the Kieler Yacht Club, and organised by WHU sailing club, taking place in Germany for the first time on the Baltic Sea.

The ABC is the longest running regatta in the MBA Sailing League. 7 teams from 6 international business schools competed on the exciting J70 boats owned by the German Sailing Premier League (Segelbundesliga).

Great weather and wind conditions enabled 14 inshore races and 1 costal race in the Kieler Förde. The Reichman team won 7 inshore races and the coastal race, to narrowly beat Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, winning 5 races)into second with the host WHU team in third.

ABC Regatta – competitors announced

5 August 2023

The Kellogg/ WHU business school team, organisers of the 2023 Alumni Business Cup in the German sailing headquarters of Kiel, have announced the participating teams. There will be at least 8 boats on the start line from the folowing schools:

2x Oxford SAID

2x WHU

Bucerius

Cambridge

Reichman (TLV)

RSM

The organisers are currently recruiting crew for a mixed team for those business schools unable to deploy a full crew of their own.

The regatta takes place on 24th – 27th August. Crews of 5 will compete in J70s.

Event website: https://www.abcuphamburg.de/

ABC regatta sign ups are open

3 July 2023

The team from WHU business school have opened registrations for the 2023 regatta. Details on the event website here: http://www.abcuphamburg.de/

The regatta will take place on 25 – 27 August, with crews arriving on the 24th, and will be located in the Northern European capital of sailing, Kiel, hosted by prestigious Kieler Yacht Club!The regatta will be sailed in new, matched J/70s owned by the German National Sailing League.

The action will be fleet racing with on- the water umpires. Participants will be housed in a modern hotel. An exciting programme of evening events is being planned. The organisers report there have been over 7 teams signed up so far!

The Alumni Business Cup 2020: 21 – 24 May; Hamburg, Germany

24 September 2019

The Alumni Business Cup Regatta has announced the date, venue and organisers of its 2020 event:

Date: 21 – 24 May 2020

Venue: Hamburg, Germany

Boats: J/70

Organisation: Kellogg-WHU Sailing Club

Format:To include match racing.

Website – ABC: https://www.abcup.org/

Website – ABC Hamburg 2020: https://www.prantos.com/sailing

Skolkovo victory in Capri

15 September 2019

Skolkovo brought in their second victory of the 2019 season with the win in Capri at the Alumni Business Cup, organised by MIP. It was a close- fought regatta, the Russian team winning by 4 points thanks to two race wins and a win in the shore games, against INSEAD 2’s three race wins, but inconsistent form in races 3 and 4 cost INSEAD 2 the regatta. LBS 1 round out the podium. Continue reading “Skolkovo victory in Capri”

Skolkovo retain the ABC title

2 October 2017

The team from Skolkovo kept hold of the Alumni Business Cup trophy, through a strong performance on the water on the Ligurian coast off Sestri Levante, Italy. They pipped London Business School by just 2 points in the end, after a relatively poor performance in the onshore games, which LBS won.

This was the third regatta in the Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League.

Evgeniya Semykina’s team won seven out of the ten races, with LBS taking six second places. But the onshore games could not be discarded, and so the regatta came down to the last two races.

Third place was taken by Marc LeBorgne’s INSEAD team, keeping the French School’s claim on the league going strong. HEC, Kellogg/WHU and a second INSEAD boat made up the six- strong fleet. Continue reading “Skolkovo retain the ABC title”

Alumni Business Cup will be on 9- 11 June in St Petersburg

2 April 2016

The 2016 Alumni Business Cup regatta will take place at St Petersburg, Russia on the Gulf of Finland on the 9th- 11th June

This is the second event of the 2016 Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League

Find out more on the Regatta page here and soon on the regatta website here: http://www.abcup.org/
– One Design 25ft Platu 25 boats
– Really good MBA competition: Take on last year’s winners, Skolkovo in home waters
– 3 days of racing

– cocktails and dinner parties in the evenings
– Hotel accommodation and meals included
– The infamous “Onshore games”

Costs: – the participation fee for a 5-person crew team is: 2,200 euro (i.e. €440 per person). The fee per
additional crew member or accompanying partner will be €200/person (bringing the cost down to c.€400
per person for a team of 6).

Accomodation is an additional €180/ person for Wed – Sunday, or teams can book their own accomodation

Booking: The fleet is composed of 9 boats and they will be allocated on a first paid first served basis. We
expect that the fleet will be fully booked by the end of April.
The booking process is as follows.
o Transfer the € 1,000 (one thousand euros) initial deposit to the ABCA account
o Confirm your booking by registering on the website (www.abcup.org)

Skolkovo make it 2 from 2 regattas at ABC

5 July 2015

The unstoppable Skolkovo sailing team continued where they had left off in Athens: winning six out of seven races on the waters of Le Havre, and also winning the onshore games: demonstrating impressive engineering skills.

The racing was in J80s, and in strong winds: Friday’s sailing was delayed becaus they were too strong, and there were a number of races where spinnakers were banned.

INSEAD came home second, with the one win that Skolkovo couldn’t manage, 2 2nds, 2 3rds and a 5th, plus a third in the onshore games. HEC came in third, although level on points with INSEAD on the water.

There were 11 teams competing: Three from INSEAD, three from HEC, two from LBS, a combined LBS/MBS team and a team from Rotterdam joining the Skolkovo team on the water.

The action now moves on to the Cranfield regatta in the tidal currents of the Solent.