2012 Vintage Yachting Games – Men's Europe

The Men's Europe was an event on the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games program at Lake Como, 🇮🇹 Italy. Five out of the nine scheduled race were completed. 11 sailors, on 11 boats, from 5 nations entered. The event was started together with the Europe Female event. However separate scores were given.

Race area and Course
Of the three Campo's (Race Area's) available for the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games at Lake Como Campo Bravo was used for the Europe Male event. In general this Campo is situated in front of the city of Dervio. For the 2012 edition of the Vintage Yachting Games three different courses were available. The Europe Male could only use course 3.

Wind conditions
The Northern part of Lake Como was reportedly a thermic wind venue. In this time of year the normal situation is that at about 13:00 the Swiss mountains are heated up and a Southern wind hits the racing areas with about 10 to 14 knots. As result of this no races were scheduled in the morning. Unfortunately during the event the temperature in Switzerland was low during the Vintage. Also was the thermal South breeze battling with the gradient wind from the North. As result the actual wind did not came above the 8 knots during the races and was instable at times.

Campo Bravo has normally a tendency to have a slightly higher wind speed than the two other Campo's this due to the fact that it is more Northern than Charlie so that the Southern thermal breeze is strengthened and that the fact that the lake narrows in front of Dervio.

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Summary
In the Europe Male at Campo Bravo only five races could be completed. 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 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.

Results

 * dnc = did not compete
 * dns = did not start
 * dnf = did not finish
 * dsq = disqualified
 * ocs = on course side
 * ret = retired after finish
 * Crossed out results did not count for the total result.