2018 Vintage Yachting Games

The 2018 Vintage Yachting Games was the third post-Olympic multi-class sailing event for discontinued Olympic and Paralympic Classes. The event was held from 16 to 22 September 2018 on Øresund, Copenhagen in Denmark. The organization of this event was executed by a joint venture of the Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub and the Hellerup Sejlklub. The Vintage Yachting Games Organization (VYGO) was the governing organization. The competition took place in 3 Vintage Yachting Classes.

First bidding process
The first bidding process was officially launched on 14 December 2010. The bidding process intended to run till 31 December 2011. This period was extended on request of several candidates.

Before the bidding process started there was an interest for hosting the event from:
 * 🇩🇪 Lake Chiemsee
 * 🇷🇴 Black Sea
 * 🇬🇧 Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
 * 🇸🇪 Stockholm

During the bidding process this group extended with:
 * 🇩🇪 Boltenhagen
 * 🇫🇷 Douarnenez

The Vintage Yachting Games supervisory board finally voted unanimous to accept the bid of the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy and not for reopening or extending the bidding process. The venue of the 2016 Vintage Yachting Games was formally announced during the closing ceremony of the 2012 edition.

Second bidding process
As soon as the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy withdraw from the event a second bidding process was started for a postponed event in 2018. Bids arrived from four countries: The classes than had the possibility to vote. As result the Danish bid was chosen unanimously for the third edition (2018) and the Austria for the fourth edition (year t.b.d. 2020–2022). The dates of the 2018 Vintage were announced in 2016 to the Vintage classes.
 * 🇮🇹 Circolo Nautico Punta Imperatore, Forio d’Ischia
 * Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub and Hellerup Sejlklub
 * 🇩🇪 Lübecker Yacht – Club, (as part of the Travemünder Woche)
 * 🇦🇹 Union Yacht Club Attersee and the Segel Club Kammersee

Voting result
The bonus point system was used over the eight voting classes (no discard)

1 10 points

2 🇦🇹 47.7 points

3 🇩🇪 53.4 points

4 🇮🇹 64.4 points

Venue
As Venue for the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games the Øresund for Hellerup chosen. The hostclubs were the Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub and the Hellerup Sejlklub. The clubhouse and harbor of the Hellerup Sejlklub was used to facilitate the event.

Calendar
The program of the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games was as follows:

Continents

 * Africa
 * Europe
 * North America
 * Asia

Countries
[[File:Sailingmap 2018 Vintage Yachting Games.png|thumb|260px|left|Countries that participated in the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games.

Blue: Water

Gray: Never participated in the Vintage

Yellow: Participated in earlier Vintages

Green: Country participated in her first Vintage

Gold: Country participated also on previous Vintages ]]

Current Vintage Yachting Classes

 * • = Event in this year
 * VIP = Used for the Vintage Inter Pares race
 * Cercle noir 100%.svg = Open event
 * Venus symbol.svg = Female event
 * Mars symbol.svg = Male event

Due to circumstances that varied by class only three out of 12 of the Vintage Yachting Classes participated in the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games at Hellerup.

Wind conditions
The Øresund in front of the Hellerup Sejlklub was during the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games one of the targets of the remains of the Hurricane Florence. This resulted in South-Westerly winds that varied between 12 and 38 knots over the period of the Vintage.

Measurement
Since all three classes just had major championships that include measurement, no measurement took place in this Vintage.

Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony took place in the main hall of the club house of the Hellerup Sejlklub. The formal opening was done by Rasmus Knude of Hellerup Sejlklub.

Closing ceremony
Due to the weather conditions the VIP race could not be started. So the closing ceremony started with the prize giving by Lars Ive and Peter Lübeck Stephenson.

During the closing of the event Rudy den Outer handed over stainless remembrance plate with the Vintage logo to Peter Lübeck Stephenson. He also announced that the Union-Yacht-Club Attersee will be the host of the next Vintage Yachting Games. However, before the date will be set an evaluation with the classes and organizers will take place. After that the Vintage flag was received from Lars Ive, representing the Copenhagen organization. The flag was subsequently handed over to Stephan Beurle representing Austria as the next host country.



Media Coverage
Pictures and video footage was received for Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International distribution from:
 * Per Heegaard
 * Ann Fillipa Madsen
 * Lars Ive
 * and others

Sailing
Races in all events were sailed in a fleet racing format of eight scheduled races. The contestants raced around a course in one group, and each boat earned a score equal conform the bonus point system. Due to wind conditions not all scheduled races could be sailed.

Reports per event
Per class separate pages reporting the facts are available (see the details section per class in the medals table).

Report Vintage InterPares race
Due to the weather conditions the VIP race could not be sailed. Since all winners came from the Netherlands the decision was made to sail the VIP race on a later date in 2018/2019 somewhere in the Netherlands. This is in line with the history of the 12' Dinghy at the 1920 Summer Olympics were the last race was not sailed in Belgium but in The Netherlands.

Country Trophy
The best ranked competitor per class per country scores point for his country based on his overall ranking and the 1964 Olympic scoring system. The highest scored country wins the Country trophy.