2012 Vintage Yachting Games Took Place
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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 Dragon 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 Netherlands, Italy 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 boats 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 Sailing Federation. Finally Alberto Barenghi, president of the International Flying Dutchman 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 Tempest was simply bad organized and boats had to place on shore after each day. Also the taxi rides from Bellano to the Soling 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 Germany. 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 Europe 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 Denmark. 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 boat. 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.