2012 Vintage Yachting Games – Tempest

Tempest
2012 Vintage Yachting Games

Event information
Race area Campo Charlie,
Bellano,
Italy Italy
Period July 7 to July 14
Competitors 30
Boats 15
Countries 4
Gold Switzerland Switzerland
Silver Germany Germany
Bronze Germany Germany
Succession
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 Tempest was an event on the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games program at Lake Como, Italy Italy. Six out of the nine scheduled race were entered. 30 sailors, on 15 boats, from 4 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 Tempest event. In general this Campo is situated in front of the city of Bellano.

For the Tempest the Campo Charlie was available.Course 1Course 2

For the 2012 edition of the Vintage Yachting Games three different courses were available. The Tempest could use course 1 or 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.

DateRaceSkyWind directionWind speed (m/s)
09-JULI SW8-12
09-JULII SW8-12
10-JULNo races due to lack of wind
11-JULIII SW8-12
11-JULIV SW8-12
12-JULNo races due to lack of wind
13-JULV SW8-12
14-JULNo races due to lack of wind

Races

Summary

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

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 the heavy weightssailors, give a wonderful display of mixed team sailing.

Results


Rank
Team[1] (Country) Race I Race II Race III Race IV Race V Race VI Total
Points
[2]
Total
-1
[3]
RankPointsRankPointsRankPointsRankPointsRankPointsRankPoints
1st  Switzerland (SUI)
Cornelia CHRISTEN
Ruedi CHRISTEN
23.010.0611.7611.710.010.026.414.7
2nd Germany (GER)
Rolf BÄHR
Christian SPRANGER
10.0510.010.010.0915.01016.041.025.0
3rd Germany (GER)
Klaus WENDE
Max REICHERT
1420.048.048.023.01016.023.058.038.0
4  Italy (ITA)
Alessandro CASTELLI
Paolo BRAMBILLA
510.023.0713.0713.048.035.752.739.7
5   Switzerland (SUI)
Mario SUTER
Andreas HOCHULI
35.7611.7510.048.0510.0510.055.443.7
6  France (FRA)
Gérard AUMONT
Régis VIATEUR
48.0713.0915.035.723.01319.063.744.7
7  Germany (GER)
Jörg FLEISCHER
Ralf HÖHLER
915.035.723.0510.0713.01218.064.746.7
8   Switzerland (SUI)
Rolf HUNKELER
Patrick BUSSMANN
611.7915.035.71117.0814.0814.077.460.4
9  Germany (GER)
Gustl TRIMPL SR.
Gustl TRIMPL JR.
814.01016.0814.0814.0611.7611.781.465.4
10  Austria (AUT)
Manfred SCHUMI
Horst FEICHTNER
1016.01117.01117.0915.035.7713.083.766.7
11  France (FRA)
Patrice ROUANET
Agnes ROUANET
713.0dnf22.01016.01016.01117.048.092.070.0
12  Austria (AUT)
Wolfgang RAUCH
Nikolaus RAUCH
1218.0814.01319.01319.01218.0915.0103.084.0
13  France (FRA)
François BLONDEL
Victor BLONDEL
1117.01420.01218.01218.01319.01420.0112.092.0
14  France (FRA)
Gerard MAZURE
Edouard KOCH
1319.01319.01420.01420.01420.01117.0115.095.0
15  France (FRA)
Jean Marie THIERRY
Agnes THIERRY
1521.01218.01521.01521.01521.0dnf22.0124.0102.0

Daily standings

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

Victors

Medalist 2012 Vintage Yachting Games: Tempest
1st Switzerland 
2nd Germany 
3rd Germany 
Cornelia CHRISTEN (l) and
Ruedi CHRISTEN (r) 
Rolf BÄHR (l) and
Christian SPRANGER (r) 
Klaus WENDE (l) and
Max REICHERT (r) 

Notes

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

References

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