Bethel Point Sailing Center
Bethel Point Sailing Center
The Bowdoin team sails on Casco Bay, in a protected ocean inlet.
The squad boasts a fleet of 18 Larks, plus 6 FJs and two
motorboats. Typically there is an 8 to 12 knot seabreeze, which
gets shifty near sunset. The area has nine to ten foot tides, so
Bowdoin sailors learn to observe and respond to shifting current on
the racecourse.
The site is beautiful and remote — the rocky shorelines are
wooded, and often the team observes seals, ospreys, egrets, and
bald eagles far more frequently than other boaters. Sailors on the
team love the mini escape from campus life that heading to the site
gives them each day.