The rankings are compiled by Sailing World Magazine and determined by the coaches of the ICSA.  Every coach gets 1 vote to rank all the teams.

Latest Rankings (August 31, 2009)
Coed [#] = first-place votes received Total Points    
01. St. Mary's [7]
216
11. Tufts
112
02. Georgetown [2]
201 12. Stanford
91
03. Yale [1]
181 13. Brown
89
04. Boston College
173 14. Hobart/William Smith
82
05. Charleston
158 15. Boston Univ.
81
06. Roger Williams
148 16. Connecticut College
38
07. Harvard 128 17. Washington College
37
(tie) Navy
128 18. SUNY Maritime
30
09. Old Dominion
122 (tie) Vermont
30
10. South Florida
114 20. Eckerd
20
Also receiving votes: MIT (18 points), Hawaii (14), Pennsylvania (14), USMMA/Kings Point (13), Miami (13), Dartmouth (13), UC Santa Barbara (7), Rhode Island (6), Coast Guard (5), Salve Regina (3)

Women [#] = first-place votes received Total Points    
01. Charleston [4] 155 09. Dartmouth
65
02. Boston College [3]
144 10. Connecticut College
63
03. Yale [2]
138 11. Stanford
52
04. Old Dominion [2]
125 12. Hobart/William Smith
39
05. St. Mary's
123 13. Boston Univ.
38
06. Brown
111 14. Rhode Island
27
07. Georgetown
103 15. Coast Guard
14
08. Harvard
74
 
Also receiving votes: Eckerd (12 points), Tufts (11), Navy (9), MIT (4), Hawaii (4), Roger Williams (3)

11 Coaches submitted votes for this poll: Coast Guard, Boston University, Hobart and William Smith, California Maritime Academy, Charleston, Brown University, South Florida, Rhode Island, University of Hawaii Manoa, U.S. Naval Academy, Dartmouth, Bowdoin College

Sailing World's college rankings are determined by an open coaches poll. For more information on the poll, or on how your team's coach can become a part of it, email collegerankings@sailingworld.com.