Sailing in 11th Place After One Day of Finals Action at Open Fleet Race Nationals

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Harvard Sailing ended first-day finals action at the 2026 ICSA Open Fleet Racing National Championship in 11

th place. The highly competitive day saw several teams move up and down the team leaderboard.

The Crimson, which rose to as high as third place, ended Thursday with a score of 144. Brown, which made a late charge, finds itself in first place with a 100, and is followed by Stanford (102), Navy (120), Penn (123) and Georgetown (127). The Hoyas occupy the fifth spot on the leaderboard due to tiebreakers with Tulane and Yale. Roger Williams (129), Dartmouth (132) and College of Charleston (139) are directly in front of Harvard.

Similar to both days of the semifinals,

Justin Callahan and

Jacob Posner competed against the A-Division, while

Mitchell Callahan and

Rosella Irfan faced the B-Division.

The pairing of J. Callahan-Posner opened with a solid 4-5 performance in its first two races. Outside of a seventh-place performance in Race 4, the duo struggled, finishing in 13

th place in Race 3, and recording a finish line of 11-16-10 in Races 5-7, respectively. They ended the day with a fourth-place showing in Race 8, giving them a 70.

M. Callahan and Irfan were mostly solid throughout the day, logging single-digit finishes in five of eight races, including a win in Race 3. The outliers were a 12

th-place finish in its second outing of the day, a 13

th-place effort in Race 7 and a disqualification in Race 8, which gave them a Day-1 score of 74.

The second and final day of the championship round is set for Friday. Start time is slated for 8:30 a.m. ET at SkyBeach Resort.