College sailors from across the country will race off Milton Point in Rye on Saturday, Nov. 7, and Sunday, Nov. 8. The Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Singlehanded National Championship will be hosted at American Yacht Club.

The two-day regatta puts a national title on the line in two divisions. The Glen S. Foster Trophy goes to the open champion and the Janet Lutz Trophy to the women's champion, according to the event's official Notice of Race.

Competitors will sail ILCA-class dinghies on a windward-leeward course set within one nautical mile of Bell Buoy 42, just outside Milton Point Harbor.

The ICSA, Fordham University and American Yacht Club are listed as the organizing authority. Fordham Sailing Coach Brendan Feeney and AYC Sailing Director Kevin Broome serve as regatta co-chairs.

Fordham's club sailing program, a member of the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association, was revived in 2000 after a 27-year hiatus, according to the university's sailing page. American Yacht Club has occupied its Milton Point site since 1887.

Sailors qualify through conference championships or at-large selection. Each conference champion earns an automatic bid. A selection committee then adds at-large sailors based on their college sailing records, according to a Tulane University athletics release.

Several qualifiers are already confirmed. Brown University announced that James Pine, the New England Open Singlehanded champion, earned an automatic bid for the open division. Teammates William Baker and Nathan Pine received at-large selections.

Tulane will send Ava Anderson and Hamilton Barclay, who won the SEISA women's and open singlehanded titles, respectively. Tate Christopher picked up an at-large bid for the open championship, according to the Tulane release.

On the women's side, South Florida's Ghislaine van Empel earned an at-large bid after finishing third at the SAISA Singlehanded Conference Championship, where she won three consecutive races, USF Athletics reported. Van Empel raced in the ILCA 6 for the first time in more than eight years at that event.

On-site registration opens Friday, Nov. 6, at AYC's JAYC House. Saturday's first warning signal is set for 10:30 a.m. Sunday racing begins with a 10 a.m. first warning, and no new races will start after 3 p.m. A trophy presentation follows immediately after the final race.