This weekend 10 MBA students from the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business will pit their sailing skills against their international peers when 24 yachts set sail from Port Solent in the International Business Schools Regatta - July 20th-22nd.

Participating students will hail from 15 business schools worldwide and they will compete in four races on Saturday and Sunday between Port Solent and the Isle of Wight to win the Laurie Brown Trophy. William Carnegie, skipper of Veritas will present the winning crew with the trophy.

International business schools participating in the regatta will include Cranfield School of Management; INSEAD; J L Kellogg School of Management, USA; The Judge Institute, Cambridge; London Business School; Kingston Business School; Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands, and the Graduate School of Management of Bocconi University Italy.