The Pavilion has served as the host site for the past three years. The Sailing Teams and Intercollegiate Athletics MIT has a distinguished history of making great sailboat racers from students who have little to no sailing experience before arriving in Cambridge. Many MIT students have had limited exposure to sports activities. These students, having had tremendous success in the classroom, are wonderful students of sailboat racing. Their abilities to think geometrically and to apply themselves as hard on the water as they do in a class have allowed MIT sailors to rise to become Olympic and world class competitors.
Sailboat racing requires team members to develop individual skills.
While doing so, they practice against their fellow teammates to simulate racing regatta situations. Success is not measured against a clock or a tape measure. Rather, it is determined as to how one finishes relative to the rest of the fleet at the finish line. The team is measured by the sum of its individual performances. Students who learn how to race sailboats at MIT graduate not only with a skill that they can use for an entire lifetime but, more importantly, they leave with a heightened self-confidence in their ability to achieve goals.