2012 Vintage Yachting Games – Soling

Soling
2012 Vintage Yachting Games

Soling
Event information
Race area	Campo Charlie, Bellano, Italy
Period	July 7 to July 14
Competitors	39
Boats	13
Countries	7
Gold	Ukraine
Silver	The Netherlands
Bronze	Austria
Succession
Previous	2008
Next	2016

2012 Vintage
Europe Female			Female
Europe Male			Male
O-Jolle			Open
Flying Dutchman			Open
Tempest			Open
Soling			Open
Dragon			Open
5.5 Metre			Open

The Soling was an event on the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games program at Lake Como, Italy. Six out of the nine scheduled race were entered. 39 sailors, on 13 boats, from 7 nations entered.

Venue overview

Race area and Course

Of the three Campo's (Race Area's) available for the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games at Lake Como Campo Charlie was used for the Soling event. In general this Campo is situated in front of the city of Bellano.

For the Soling the Campo Charlie was available.	Course 2

For the 2012 edition of the Vintage Yachting Games three different courses were available. The Soling could only use course 2.

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 were low. 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.

Date	Race	Sky	Wind direction	Wind speed (m/s)
09-JUL	I		SW	8-12
09-JUL	II		SW	8-12
10-JUL	No races due to lack of wind
11-JUL	III		SW	8-12
11-JUL	IV		SW	8-12
12-JUL	No races due to lack of wind
13-JUL	V		SW	8-12
14-JUL	No races due to lack of wind

Races

Summary

In the Soling six out of the planned nine races were completed.

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 Austria, Igor Yushko, Sergiy Pichugin, Dmitriy Yarmolenka, from Ukraine and Rudy den Outer, 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.

Results

Rank	Team[1] (Country)	Race I		Race II		Race III		Race IV		Race V		Race VI		Total Points [2]	Total -1 [3]
		Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
	Ukraine (UKR) Igor YUSHKO Sergiy PICHUGIN Dmitriy YARMOLENKA	3	5.7	2	3.0	3	5.7	2	3.0	1	0.0	1	0.0	17.4	11.7
	Netherlands (NED) Rudy DEN OUTER Gavin LIDLOW Ramzi SOULI	1	0.0	3	5.7	10	16.0	3	5.7	2	3.0	2	3.0	33.4	17.4
	Austria (AUT) Peter NEUMANN Rudolf RAGER Rudolf HUBAUER	9	15.0	1	0.0	2	3.0	7	13.0	6	11.7	4	8.0	50.7	35.7
4	Germany (GER) Roman KOCH Max KOCH Dominik MEISSNER	10	16.0	7	13.0	1	0.0	4	8.0	4	8.0	6	11.7	56.7	40.7
5	United States (USA) Stuart H. WALKER Nikki SEEMANN Volker MOSER	2	3.0	4	8.0	4	8.0	raf	22.0	5	10.0	7	13.0	64.0	42.0
6	Austria (AUT) Ludwig BEURLE Stephan BEURLE Ekkehart STEINHUBER	11	17.0	8	14.0	5	10.0	1	0.0	8	14.0	3	5.7	60.7	43.7
7	Austria (AUT) Christian HOLLER Peter FARBOWSKI Mattijs HOLLER	4	8.0	10	16.0	6	11.7	5	10.0	3	5.7	5	10.0	61.4	45.4
8	Germany (GER) Thomas SCHERER Andi BAUMÜLLER Daniel DIESING	6	11.7	6	11.7	8	14.0	8	14.0	dnf	22.0	9	15.0	88.4	66.4
9	Italy (ITA) Beniamino ZERMINI Attilia PAPINI Nicola ARMELLINI	8	14.0	9	15.0	9	15.0	9	15.0	7	13.0	8	14.0	86.0	71.0
10	Italy (ITA) Giuseppe ROSSI Alessandro SGORBATI Roberto MINOLA	5	10.0	5	10.0	7	13.0	dnc	20.0	dnc	20.0	ocs	22.0	95.0	73.0
11	Netherlands (NED) Steven BAKKER Casper VAN DRUNEN Robin SEGAAR	7	13.0	dnf	22.0	11	17.0	6	11.7	11	17.0	12	18.0	98.7	76.7
12	France (FRA) Marc LEFEVRE François GOMBEAUD Louis Etienne DU REAU	12	18.0	12	18.0	12	18.0	10	16.0	9	15.0	11	17.0	102.0	84.0
13	Italy (ITA) Frederico BORACCHI Federico ROLLA Alberto ROTTA	13	19.0	13	19.0	13	19.0	11	17.0	10	16.0	10	16.0	106.0	87.0

• 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.

Daily standings

Graph showing the daily standings in the Soling during the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games

Victors

Medalist 2012 Vintage Yachting Games: Soling

Igor YUSHKO (l), Sergiy PICHUGIN (m) and Dmitriy YARMOLENKA (r)  Rudy DEN OUTER (l), Gavin LIDLOW (m) and Ramzi SOULI (r)  Peter NEUMANN (r), Rudolf RAGER (m) and Rudolf HUBAUER (l)

Notes

1. The first mentioned person is the helmsperson
2. The 2012 Bonus scoring system was used.
3. Total after applying discard.

References

• Vintage Yachting Games Organization. "Results 2012 Vintage Yachting Games: Soling". Vintage Yachting Games Organization. Retrieved 2012-07-29.