The Tufts University Sailing Team represents Tufts University in the intercollegiate sport of sailing. They are members of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA), the governing body for collegiate sailing, and compete at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA).

Led by head coach Johnny Norfleet since 2023, who took the reins from Ken Legler after an illustrious 43-year career at Tufts, the team is one of the most successful in the history of college sailing.

The team holds 28 National Championships:

• Dinghy Championships (5): 1976, 1980, 1981, 1997, 2001
• Women's Dinghy National Championships (8): 1984, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2003
• Team Racing National Championships (6): 1976 (with NEISA), 1984, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
• Men's Single-handed National Championships (5): 1975, 1976, 1980, 1993 (Mendelblatt), 1995 (Bischoff)
• Women's Single-handed National Championships (3): 1995, 1996, 1997
• Match Race (previously Sloop) National Championships (1): 2013

And received the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy (for the top overall team across the various national championships) in eight seasons: 1975, 1976, 1984, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999

66 men and 25 women were All-Americans.^[1]

Team members have received the ICSA College Sailor of the Year award 4 times:

• Roger Altreuter in 1975
• R. Stuart Johnstone in 1980
• Paul Dickey in 1981
• Senet Bischoff in 1996

And the ICSA Women's College Sailor of the Year once:

• Kaitlin Storck in 2008

The home for the Tufts University sailing program is the Bacow Sailing Pavilion, named after Lawrence Bacow and his wife, Adele Fleet Bacow. It opened in the fall of 2013 and was built on the foundation of its 60-year-old predecessor, on Medford's Upper Mystic Lake.^[2]

This two-story facility is one of the nicest in college sailing, with locker rooms, kitchen, meeting rooms and a large boatshop.

The fleet of Tufts University Sailing Team's includes 24 Larks and 6 FJs, as well as several ILCAs.