2 0 1 2 V I N T A G E Y ACHTING G AMES S UMMARY V I N T A G E I NTER P A R E S R A C E By crossing an Italian colored ribbon Yevgen BRASLAVETZ, the responsible person of the victorious Ukrainian Bunker Prince, won the Vintage InterPares race 2012. In this race all winners of the Vintage Yachting Games meet each other in a battle between the classes. This race is held in the 12’ Dinghy, an Olympic class in 1920 and 1928. This class is still very active in 10 countries including The , and Japan. For privacy reasons the rest of the finishing order will remain a secret. We like to congratulate the International Dragon Class for being “THE” Vintage Yachting Class for the next four years. This year’s Vintage showed 113 and 225 participants. With an increase of 140% in relation to the 2008 edition the idea of the Vintage Yachting Games looks to have landed. T HE OPENING CEREMONY Due to the fact of three locations: Bellano, Dervio and Santa Cecilia, it was not possible to have the original planned fleet review. As alternative a fanfare followed by a long parade of sailors and organizers walked from the Dervio city hall to the Vintage meeting point near the waterfront. There the opening ceremony of the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games took place. Besides the Italian National Anthem two choirs of Italian Opera singers sung Va Pensiero from Verdi during the flag hoisting procedure. Furthermore there were short speeches from The Vintage Yachting Games Organization, the representatives of Bellano and Dervio, the organizing clubs and the Italian Federation. Finally Alberto Barenghi, president of the International Organization and chairman of the Vintage Yachting Games supervisory board declared the games opened. On the picture: The France National delegation parading in the streets of Dervio.

T H E W E A T H E R The wonderful scenery of Lake Como has a normal weather pattern of a thermal breeze from the south starting at 13:00 hours. Like always the normal conditions were not present during a major championship. This was due to very bad weather North of the Alpes and in Switzerland. As result the wind speed did not reach the normal level of 10 to 14 knots and alternative starting times were used. Also the spare day was utilized. At Campo Alpha and Bravo only 5 races could be completed. On Campo Charlie a sixth race was completed. On Wednesday a storm of 40 knots hits the lake. The organizers reacted prompt and cleared the lake in time. The Italian temperature was not absent. So besides some rainy periods sailing on the lake was very pleasant. T HE ORGANIZATION The races at all Campo’s were well organized and managed. Also the opening ceremony and the craning of the keelboats went well. Other parts showed signs of what was locally called “Italian style” of management. The mooring of the was simply bad organized and boats had to place on shore after each day. Also the taxi rides from Bellano to the markers and back as well as the daily prize giving’s could be organized much better. The final prize giving ceremony started well but had a chaotic ending. These are all points that will be evaluated with the organizing committee and with the International Class Organizations. However, at our next Vintage location we do not expect the infrastructure to be a bottleneck since everything there is built around craning, mooring and launching of boats and parking of cars. On Friday there was a meeting with all International Class representatives. Here the positive and negative facts of this edition were on the table. At the end the general feeling of the classes was to continue the support to the Vintage Yachting Games as a joint venture.

T H E M E D A L S This year’s medals were made of glass with internal inscription. They were handed out to all 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners.

T H E P E R P E T U A L TROPHIES In 2008 the perpetual trophies were sponsored by Sotheby’s. They were designed and created by Jacob J. Roosjen former silversmith and Dutch dragon sailor. For 2012 Jacob made also similar prizes for the new classes. On the reverse all Olympic medalists of a class are engraved (the classes past). In the obverse is the Vintage logo. The winners of this trophy are engraved on the foot of the trophy (the classes’ future!).

T HE COUNTRY TROPHY In this Vintage the country trophy, donated in 2008 by Menno Meyer, goldsmith, former International sailor, Jury and Umpire, was won by . This victory is impressive however, they had won only in one class, but their overall performance beat every other country. T H E P O U L R ICH A R D H Ø J J ENSEN TROPHY I N T H E D RAGON This perpetual trophy is presented to the winner of the Dragon class to symbolize the connection between Poul and the Olympic ideas behind the Vintage. T H E M A R I N E Y ACHTING TROPHY This trophy is presented by Marine Yachting on a perpetual basis to the winner of the Vintage InterPares race. D R I V E A N D R A C E T R O P H Y Donated by the owner of Dervio’s Surfshop. Upali who travelled his whole life light with his surf board in the airplane was impressed how sailors suffer by driving many kilometers to and from the regatta’s. The price went to the Flying Dutchman team RUS 9 of: Sergey Kruchkov and Andrey Silzinev who traveled a total of 9000 kilometers to participate at Vintage Yachting Games.

C A M P O B RAVO At Campo Bravo only five races could be completed for both classes. In the class, Olympic from 1992 – 2004, the female and male event started as one fleet in this Vintage. Of cause they had separate results. By the female participants, Janika PULS, Germany, got a lead of 8 points over her opponent Anne-Line LYBGSØ THOMSEN from . Anna LIVBJERG also from Denmark took bronze. No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 3 4 5 1 GER 99 Janika PULS 9.0 2 2 1 (3) 2 2 DEN 50 Anne-Line LYBGSØ THOMSEN 17.0 1 1 2 (8) 8 3 DEN 1777 Anna LIVBJERG 19.7 (6) 4 6 1 1 4 DEN 95 Trine BENTZEN 24.4 (7) 3 5 2 3 5 GER 20 Nadine MÖLLER 34.4 3 (7) 3 5 7 6 FRA 5653 Caroline VANDAME 35.7 4 6 (8) 4 4 7 FRA 5643 Séverine BLONDET 38.0 5 5 4 (7) 5 8 ITA 1152 Daniela COLOMBO 50.4 (8) 8 7 6 6 9 ITA 1131 Chiara SELLAROLI 60.0 (9) 9 9 9 9 10 ITA 1091 Gloria CAVALIERI 72.0 (dnc) dnc dnc dnc dnc 10 ITA 1154 Costanza SANDRUCCI 72.0 (dnc) dnc dnc dnc dnc By the male Europe sailors Frederik RASK and Sverre REINKE both had 11.7 points after five races. Frederik took the gold after breaking the tie. Bronze was for Jacob CHOLEWA, Denmark. No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 3 4 5 1 DEN 1738 Frederik RASK 11.7 2 3 (9) 2 1 2 GER 14 Sverre REINKE 11.7 (6) 2 1 3 2 3 DEN 10 Jacob CHOLEWA 13.7 (11) 1 4 1 3 4 GER 24 Martin KOTTE 34.0 4 (dnc) 2 5 7 5 ITA 1187 Nicola MONTI 37.7 1 6 10 (11) 5 6 DEN 1710 Søren JOHNSEN 41.7 3 (9) 8 8 4 7 ITA 1173 Sebastiano GRAZZI 44.4 7 (8) 6 4 6 8 DEN 1775 Mathias LIVBJERG 44.7 5 5 7 6 (9) 9 ITA 1164 Federico GRAZZI 45.7 8 7 3 7 (10) 10 POL 22 Jeremi ZIMNY 55.0 9 4 (dnf) 9 11 11 FRA 5663 Jean-François GUILLAUMIN 56.0 (10) 10 5 10 8

In the O-Jolle, Olympic in 1936, the Dutch sailors took the first three places. Ton OP DE WEEGH once again was victorious at Lake Como. He became European Champion here two years ago and showed once again that this is his lake! Silver was for Martin BAAS and the bronze for Thies BOSCH in his new . Thies might have won if he had not chosen for a different brand of hicking straps. No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 3 4 5 1 NED 653 Ton OP DE WEEGH 10.0 (5) 5 1 1 1 2 NED 612 Martin BAAS 14.0 2 1 4 2 (8) 3 NED 66 Thies BOSCH 32.0 1 (dnf) 10 7 2 4 GER 1393 Harry VOSS 34.8 6 6 (7) 3 3 5 NED 631 Max BLOM 37.1 (11) 3 3 8 6 6 NED 540 Hans VAN BEEK 37.4 3 2 6 (13) 11 7 GER 1391 Dr. Stefan DOEMOEK 42.0 (10) 9 2 10 4 8 NED 652 Klaas DE BOER 47.0 8 (10) 9 4 5 9 GER 519 Andre KLIVER 48.0 4 8 (16) 5 10 10 NED 562 Herman VAN EIJK 48.0 9 4 5 (ocs) 9 11 SUI 117 Wolfgang RICKERT 56.0 7 7 (11) 11 7 12 GER 1333 Franz DÄNEKAS 69.7 13 (15) 12 6 15 13 GER 1383 Johannes SCHULTE 71.0 (14) 14 8 12 13 14 SUI 119 Hans WALKER 77.0 16 16 (17) 9 12 15 SUI 107 Felix HURTER 79.0 (17) 12 15 14 14 16 NED 533 Eric KIEBERT 82.0 12 11 14 (dnc) dnc 17 SUI 100 David MAGNUSSEN 86.0 15 13 13 (dns) dns 18 GER 1471 Florian BAUER 108.0 (dnc) dnc dnc dnc dnc 18 NED 485 Dirk ZWITSER 108.0 (dnc) dnc dnc dnc dnc 18 NED 514 Jan KROM 108.0 (dnc) dnc dnc dnc dnc

C A M P O C HARLIE On Campo Charlie six out of the planned nine races were completed in all three classes. The Flying Dutchman class (Olympic between 1960 – 1992) was dominated by the Austrian families: AICHHOLZER and ZINGERLE. Their two teams took gold and silver. The third place was for Ginés ROMERO BERNABEU and•lvaro MORENO EGEA who were beating the Bonaire delegation of Henry KONING and Rob TAAL with a minor 0.6 points. Dressed in traditional Tiroler lederhosen Christoph AICHHOLZER started in the Vintage InterPares race. After an early start he was given a stop and go penalty by the jury. His final result in this race will remain classified. No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 AUT 38 Christoph AICHHOLZER, Philipp ZINGERLE 8.7 3 1 1 2 (4) 1 2 AUT 39 Silvia AICHHOLZER, Christoph ZINGERLE 23.4 2 6 (7) 1 3 2 3 ESP 6 Ginés ROMERO BERNABEU, Õlvaro MORENO EGEA 28.4 1 3 3 8 2 (ocs) 4 AHO 3 Henry KONING, Rob TAAL 29.0 4 5 2 4 1 (dnf) 5 ESP 80 Marco SEVILA, Roberto SEVILA 50.4 6 (7) 5 5 7 3 6 ITA 7 Alberto BARENGHI, Matteo COSTA 54.4 9 (11) 4 6 6 4 7 POL 7 Irek PIERWOLA, Piotr TYSZKIEWICZ 54.7 5 4 8 3 11 (ocs) 8 POL 133 Pawel SWIDERSKI, Marcin ZAWISTOWSKI 64.0 11 2 (13) 12 10 5 9 SUI 6 Christoph BAUMANN, Michael KOLLER 68.7 7 10 6 7 9 (dnf) 10 ITA 63 Simone RE, Mercedes Carolina MARQUEZ 69.0 8 8 10 9 5 (dnf) 11 RUS 2 Boris NOVODEREZHKIN, Andrey NOVODEREZHKIN 76.0 10 9 9 10 8 (dnf) 12 RUS 9 Sergey KRUCHKOV, Andrey SIZINEV 89.0 12 12 12 11 12 (dnf) 13 ITA 71 Pietro FALAVIGNA, Luciano MICALI 93.0 13 13 11 13 13 (dnf) 14 HUN 11 Gabor GABORJANI, Bela ARGAY 110.0 (dnc) dnc dnc dnc dnc dnc 14 SLO 1 Luka TOMORI, Urban JAN 110.0 (dnc) dnc dnc dnc dnc dnc

In the Tempest class (Olympic between 1972 – 1976) the battle went between team of Cornelia CHRISTEN, Ruedi CHRISTEN from Switzerland and the team of president of the German Sailing Federation: Rolf BÄHR, Christian SPRANGER. In the last two races the Swiss team showed their light air competencies and won both races. The Italian host team of Alessandro CASTELLI, Paolo BRAMBILLA came in fourth after Klaus WENDE, Max REICHERT who took the bronze. The Tempest, known by the older sailors as a class for heavy weights, give a wonderful display of mixed team sailing. No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 SUI 1122 Cornelia CHRISTEN, Ruedi CHRISTEN 14.7 2 1 (6) 6 1 1 2 GER 1128 Rolf BÄHR, Christian SPRANGER 25.0 1 5 1 1 9 (10) 3 GER 1183 Klaus WENDE, Max REICHERT 38.0 (14) 4 4 2 10 2 4 ITA 1035 Alessandro CASTELLI, Paolo BRAMBILLA 39.7 5 2 (7) 7 4 3 5 SUI 1136 Mario SUTER, Andreas HOCHULI 43.7 3 (6) 5 4 5 5 6 FRA 1182 Gérard AUMONT, Régis VIATEUR 44.7 4 7 9 3 2 (13) 7 GER 1102 Jörg FLEISCHER, Ralf HÖHLER 46.7 9 3 2 5 7 (12) 8 SUI 1138 Rolf HUNKELER, Patrick BUSSMANN 60.4 6 9 3 (11) 8 8 9 GER 1180 Gustl TRIMPL SR., Gustl TRIMPL JR. 65.4 8 (10) 8 8 6 6 10 AUT 1151 Manfred SCHUMI, Horst FEICHTNER 66.7 10 (11) 11 9 3 7 11 FRA 1177 Patrice ROUANET, Agnes ROUANET 70.0 7 (dnf) 10 10 11 4 12 AUT 1141 Wolfgang RAUCH, Nikolaus RAUCH 84.0 12 8 (13) 13 12 9 13 FRA 1125 François BLONDEL, Victor BLONDEL 92.0 11 (14) 12 12 13 14 14 FRA 1176 Gerard MAZURE, Edouard KOCH 95.0 13 13 (14) 14 14 11 15 FRA 731 Jean Marie THIERRY, Agnes THIERRY 102.0 15 12 15 15 15 (dnf)

The Soling class (Olympic between 1972 – 2000) really brought the top sailors of their countries to Lake Como. When the races started it could be anyones series. When the dust of the first two days of racing was settled Peter NEUMANN, Rudolf RAGER, Rudolf HUBAUER, form , Igor YUSHKO, Sergiy PICHUGIN, Dmitriy YARMOLENKA, from and , Gavin LIDLOW, Ramzi SOULI, from The Netherlands, were battling for gold. In the final race the decision came: UKR gold, AUT bronze and NED silver. No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 UKR 1 Igor YUSHKO, Sergiy PICHUGIN, Dmitriy YARMOLENKA 11.7 (3) 2 3 2 1 1 2 NED 33 Rudy DEN OUTER, Gavin LIDLOW, Ramzi SOULI 17.4 1 3 (10) 3 2 2 3 AUT 122 Peter NEUMANN, Rudolf RAGER, Rudolf HUBAUER 35.7 (9) 1 2 7 6 4 4 GER 1 Roman KOCH, Max KOCH, Dominik MEISSNER 40.7 (10) 7 1 4 4 6 5 USA 839 Stuart WALKER, Nikki SEEMANN, Volker MOSER 42.0 2 4 4 (raf) 5 7 6 AUT 102 Ludwig BEURLE, Stephan BEURLE, Ekkehart STEINHUBER 43.7 (11) 8 5 1 8 3 7 AUT 1 Christian HOLLER, Peter FARBOWSKI, Mattijs HOLLER 45.4 4 (10) 6 5 3 5 8 GER 292 Thomas SCHERER, Andi BAUMÜLLER, Daniel DIESING 66.4 6 6 8 8 (dnf) 9 9 ITA 289 Beniamino ZERMINI, Attilia PAPINI, Nicola ARMELLINI 71.0 8 (9) 9 9 7 8 10 ITA 189 Giuseppe ROSSI, Alessandro SGORBATI, Roberto MINOLA 73.0 5 5 7 (dnc) dnc ocs 11 NED 44 , Casper VAN DRUNEN, Robin SEGAAR 75.7 7 11 11 6 11 (12) 12 FRA 198 Marc LEFEVRE, François GOMBEAUD, Louis Etienne DU REAU 84.0 (12) 12 12 10 9 11 13 ITA 119 Frederico BORACCHI, Federico ROLLA, Alberto ROTTA 87.0 (13) 13 13 11 10 10

C A M P O A LPHA On Campo Alpha the Dragons and 5.5 Metre class had their races. Only five could be completed. Since the 5.5 Metre class had brought in their classic racers a lot of very elegant boats were active on this Campo. The first days this was the course area with most wind. The Dragon class (Olympic between 1948 – 1972) had her first competitor from Africa ever. The South African (RSA) team did reasonably good with an eight place overall. The Dutch team of Reinier WISSENRAET, Pim TEN HARMSEN VAN DER BEEK, Marc REIJNHOUDT also the defending champion came in on second place. Bronze was taken by Vasiliy SENATOROV, Igor IVASHINTSOV, Alex MUZICHENKO from Russia. But the gold was for the Ukrainian team of Yevgen BRASLAVETZ, Georgii LEONCHUK, Sergey TIMOKHOV. No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 3 4 5 1 UKR 9 Yevgen BRASLAVETZ, Georgii LEONCHUK, Sergey TIMOKHOV 11.0 2 1 4 1 (5) Reinier WISSENRAET, Pim TEN HARMSEN VAN DER BEEK, Marc 2 NED 345 13.7 4 3 1 (6) 1 REIJNHOUDT 3 RUS 34 Vasiliy SENATOROV, Igor IVASHINTSOV, Alex MUZICHENKO 21.7 3 2 5 (9) 2 4 NED 402 Jan BAKKER, Dominic BAKKER, Olivier BAKKER 23.1 1 (6) 3 3 6 5 DEN 394 Soren PEHRSSON, Philipp HOLM, Victor HOLM 24.0 (9) 5 2 2 4 6 RUS 71 Sergey KUZNETSOV, Maxim SEMERKHANOV, Dmitrii TERESHKIN 33.4 6 4 (8) 4 3 7 USA 316 Edward SIMMONS, Emily SIMMONS, Paul LAJOS 49.7 8 (9) 6 5 8 8 RSA 403 Maarten KLINKENBERG, Bart KLINKENBERG, Daan GOEDKOOP 56.0 7 (11) 9 7 9 9 HUN 53 Lóránd GÖMBÖS, Tamás HORGOS, István DR. FUTÓ 57.0 5 7 (dsq) 10 12 10 ITA 59 Federico CELLINI, Norberto FELICI, Antonio COSTANTINI 60.0 (dnf) dnf 7 8 7 11 NED 361 Willem KLOMP, Willem MIDDELBURG, Lodewijk MIDDELBURG 64.0 11 8 11 (12) 10 12 HUN 45 Rudolf ANDORKA, Rudi ANDORKA JR., Rafael ANDORKA 65.0 10 10 10 (11) 11 13 POL 1 Jaroslaw NADOLNY, Rafal DRAGONSKI, Å•ukasz DRAGONSKI 80.0 (dnc) dnc dnc dnc dnc

The fleet of the 5.5 Metre (Olympic between 1952 – 1968) was very impressive. With 14 boats racing it was not the largest fleet but the size of the boats and the sail area made the class very present at Lake Como. Since all 5.5’s are build from a different design, the speed of each boat can differ as well. But the racing remained close and competitive. The class had chosen to bring the classic designs to the Vintage. This means boats designed in their Olympic period from 1952 to 1968. The choice of design period for the next Vintage is still open. The races went between William BOREL, Yves DUCLOS-GRENET, Adrien BAUMELLE, from France, Anders NORDMAN, Robert SEGERCRANTZ, Johan HJELT, from and the team of Olympian Hubert REICH, Dr. Wolfgang OEHLER, Christian HEMMERICH, from Germany sailing in their Olympic boat from 1964. In the end the Finnish team took the gold followed by the German team of “Biwi” Reich. No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 3 4 5 1 FIN 46 Anders NORDMAN, Robert SEGERCRANTZ, Johan HJELT 10.0 1 5 1 1 (ocs) 2 GER 12 Hubert REICH, Dr. Wolfgang OEHLER, Christian HEMMERICH 11.7 2 1 (4) 3 2 3 FRA 46 William BOREL, Yves DUCLOS-GRENET, Adrien BAUMELLE 14.4 3 2 3 (5) 1 4 ITA 14 Vittorio POZZO, Enzo MAROLLI, Gianluca MAROLLI 24.4 (8) 3 5 2 3 5 FRA 19 Gurvan JAOUEN, Mael DUIGOU, Anne LALLEMAND 32.7 5 6 2 (10) 4 6 SUI 17 Tobias ISLER, Rolf KELLENBERGER, t.b.d. 47.4 (12) 8 6 6 5 7 NED 5 Peter VAN KLINK, Margreet ELFRING, Harold ELFRING 52.0 (11) 9 10 4 7 8 ITA 6 Giuseppe MATILDI, Guido CAVALLAZZI, Lorenzo SCLANO 54.7 9 (10) 8 8 6 9 SUI 37 René CARPE, Nicolas PONSOT, Rose Corentin 56.0 10 4 9 11 (ocs) 10 GER 11 Kaspar STUBENRAUCH, Jorg SONNTAG, Johannes ALVAREZ 57.7 6 (11) 11 9 8 11 ITA 36 Guido TOMMASI, Claudio MAZZANTI, Alessandro MAROLLI 61.0 7 (ocs) 7 7 dsq 12 ITA 49 Roberto CANESE, Giuseppe D'AMATO, Pierfrancesco CE' 65.0 4 7 (dsq) dnc dnc 13 AUT 9 Ingo HOPFGARTNER, Wolfgang JOEBSTL, Hans KLINGAN 70.0 13 (dnf) 12 12 9 Ekkehard SCHLICHTENHORST, Joachim ZIMMERMANN, 14 GER 6 72.0 (14) 12 13 13 10 Josef MERK 15 FRA 54 Tugdual JAOUEN, Ollivier JAOUEN, Ingwenog JAOUEN 88.0 (dnc) dnc dnc dnc dnc

T HE CLOSING CEREMONY The closing ceremony started with the Vintage InterPares race in the 12’ Dinghies. This was followed by the prize giving with the team of father and daughter Maccari as presentation duo. Before the closing of the event by Vintage chairman, the Vintage flag was received from Pietro Adamoli and Carlo Bossi, representing the Multilario organization. The flag was subsequently handed over to John Best representing Great Britain as the next host country. During the closing of the event Rudy den Outer handed over stainless remembrance plates with the Vintage logo to the cities of Bellano and Dervio. He also announced that “Portland and Weymouth”, host of this year’s Olympic sailing regatta will be the host of the 2016 Vintage Yachting Games.