2008 Vintage Yachting Games – Dragon

Dragon
2008 Vintage Yachting Games
	Dragon
Event information
Race area	Race area Yellow,; IJsselmeer,; Netherlands
Period	September 20–27
Competitors	36
Boats	12
Countries	10
Results
Gold	Netherlands
Silver	Great Britain
Bronze	Australia
Succession
Next	2012

2008 Vintage
Europe Female			Female
Europe Male			Male
O-Jolle			Open
Flying Dutchman			Open
Soling			Open
Dragon			Open

The Dragon was an event on the 2008 Vintage Yachting Games program at the IJsselmeer, Netherlands. Six out of the seven scheduled race were completed. 36 sailors, on 12 boats, from 10 nations entered.

Venue overview

Race area and Course

Approximately 2 nautical miles of the coast of Medemblik two course areas (orange and yellow) were used for the 2008 edition of the Vintage Yachting Games.


For the Dragon Course Area Yellow was available.	Course 4

For the 2008 edition of the Vintage Yachting Games four different courses were available. The Dragon could use only course 4.

Wind conditions

During the 2008 Vintage Yachting Games the sailors experienced the following weather conditions:

Date	General	Temperature	Wind	Waves	Precipitation
20 September 2008	Sunny	23°C	6–8 m/s NE	0.25m	Dry
21 September 2008	Sunny	23°C	6 m/s NE	0.25m	Dry
22 September 2008	Sunny	21°C	10 m/s N	0.5m	Dry
23 September 2008	Overcast	14°C	18–14 m/s N Decreasing	0.75m	Rain
24 September 2008	Sunny	19°C	6–8 m/s NE	0.3m	Dry
25 September 2008	Sunny	22°C	6 m/s NE-E	0.1m	Dry
26 September 2008	Sunny	22°C	6–2 m/s NE-E Decreasing	0.1m	Dry
27 September 2008	Sunny	24°C	<2 m/s E	NA	Dry

Races

Summary

In the Dragon at race area Yellow only six races could be completed.

Close competition in the Dragon for the first three positions. Specially when the team of Gordon Ingate, Keith Musto and David Giles (AUS) turned out to be heavy weight specialist on the second day with two wins. The last two races were dominated by the Dutch team of Reinier Wissenraet, Gijs Evers en Marc Reijnhoudt wo took the gold in at the end. The Australians dropped back to third due to the consistent sailing of the British team of Gavia Wilkinson-Cox, Ron Rosenberg and Jon Mortimer who took the silver.

Results

Rank	Helmsperson (Country)	Race I		Race II		Race III		Race IV		Race V		Race VI		Total Points ^[1]	Total -1 ^[2]
Rank	Helmsperson (Country)	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Total Points ^[1]	Total -1 ^[2]
	Reinier WISSENRAET, Gijs EVERS and Marc REIJNHOUDT (NED)	1	0.0	2	3.0	3	~~5.7~~	3	5.7	1	0.0	1	0.0	14.4	8.7
	Gavia WILKINSON-COX, Ron ROSENBERG and Jon MORTIMER (GBR)	2	3.0	3	~~5.7~~	2	3.0	1	0.0	2	3.0	2	3.0	17.7	12.0
	Gordon INGATE, David GILES and Keith MUSTO (AUS)	4	~~8.0~~	1	0.0	1	0.0	2	3.0	4	8.0	4	8.0	27.0	19.0
4	Nick DE JONG, Don VAN AREM and Miguel KARSTERS (NED)	3	5.7	4	8.0	4	8.0	4	8.0	3	5.7	6	~~11.7~~	46.1	35.4
5	Jacob J. ROOSJEN, Lydia VERDUYN and Hugo ROOSJEN (Wildcard)	5	10.0	6	~~11.7~~	5	10.0	5	10.0	6	11.7	3	5.7	59.1	47.4
6	Jarostaw NADOLNY, Piotr Cichocki and Zuzanna CHICHOCKA (POL)	6	11.7	5	10.0	6	11.7	~~dnf~~	~~19.0~~	5	10.0	5	10.0	71.4	53.4
7	Michel VAN CAUWELAERT, Ferdinand JANSSENS DE BISTHOVE and Jan DE BIE (BEL)	~~dnc~~	~~19.0~~	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	114	95.0
	Jean Claude DANET, Luc PILLOT and Nicolas ABIVEN (FRA)	~~dnc~~	~~19.0~~	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	114	95.0
	Gildas PHILIPPE, Yann KERSALE and Tanguy RAVACH (GER)	~~dnc~~	~~19.0~~	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	114	95.0
	Len JONES, Jaime LEA and Claus HOJ JENSEN (GBR)	~~dnc~~	~~19.0~~	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	114	95.0
	Andreas HAUBOLD, Martina KLEMMT and Aksel ANDRESEN (GER)	~~dnc~~	~~19.0~~	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	114	95.0
	Fred IMHOFF, Richard VAN RIJ and Michiel PALS (Wildcard)	~~dnc~~	~~19.0~~	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	114	95.0