Harold "Hatch" Brown distinguished himself as a member of the Boston University Sailing team in the late 1950s. Both lists of Brown's individual accomplishments and the sailing team's accomplishments under his three-year captaincy are long and impressive.
A skipper in A division, Brown won the division title at the New England championships his junior year, 1958. His senior year, Brown dominated collegiate sailing by successfully defending his New England division title, winning the New England Singlehanded Championship, and winning the A Division at the national championships.
Brown became the team captain his sophomore year. The Terriers won the New England Team Racing title that season, finished second at the New Englands, and third at the national championships. His junior year, the Terriers were third in New England and his senior year, Boston University took second at both the New England and national championships.
Following graduation in 1959 from the College of Business Administration, Brown continued to sail competitively and won numerous titles. As a coach, he led the U.S. team to the Women's World Sailing Championships in Holland in 1978. He served as head sailing coach and sailing master at MIT. In 1978, he received the Harry Cleverly Memorial Award.
Brown is the second sailor in Boston University history to gain election to the Intercollegiate Sailing Hall of Fame. Brown's classmate, Wally Everest, is the other.
