About the Program

Bowdoin has a sailing team that is active and ambitious. The co-ed and women’s team compete in approximately 40 regattas during the fall season, and 20 to 25 in the spring.

Bowdoin sailors regularly travel around New England to sail at regattas hosted by Tufts, Dartmouth, Coast Guard, Yale, M.I.T., UVM, Maine Maritime Academy and Harvard, among others. Bowdoin sailors have been climbing in visibility and there is an active and developing focus on team racing in the spring season.

We practice on Quahog Bay in 18 high-performance Larks and 6 FJs. Our home waters are unrivalled for their beauty -- we regularly have seals, herons, and egrets watching our practice, and occasionally a bald eagle will soar overhead. We generally have flat water in all breeze directions. Occasionally the team sails out beyond Yarmouth Island (which is the big island that protects Quahog Bay to the South) in order to practice in big waves.

Our site provides us the opportunity to sail in a wide variety of conditions and depending upon where we practice in the bay, the team can practice in conditions that will likely occur on the weekends. Few college sailing venues are as versatile and Quahog Bay is a great body of water for our team to practice and compete.