Cadets Clinch Inter-Academy Competition

MMA wins lifeboat races and seamanship challenge.

With a clean sweep, Maine Maritime Academy midshipmen won the George C. Previll Memorial Inaugural Inter-Academy Monomoy Challenge on September 8, hosted by SUNY Maritime Academy in Throggs Neck, New York.

In addition to MMA, competing teams included the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy of Kings Point, New York; U.S. Coast Guard Academy of New London, Connecticut; SUNY Maritime Academy, and Massachusetts Maritime Academy of Buzzards Bay.

The competition began with a head-to-head monomoy (rescue row boat) race in round-robin format on a 1/3-mile course. MMA brought two boat teams, each consisting of 10 participants—a flag bearer, eight rowers, and a coxswain—that handily bested the fleet.
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