2012 Vintage Yachting Games – Tempest

The Tempest was an event on the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games program at Lake Como, Italy. Six out of the nine scheduled race were entered. 30 sailors, on 15 boats, from 4 nations entered.

Tempest
2012 Vintage Yachting Games

Tempest
Event information
Race area	Campo Charlie, Bellano, Italy
Period	July 7 to July 14
Competitors	30
Boats	15
Countries	4
Results
Gold	Switzerland
Silver	Germany
Bronze	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

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 1	Course 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.

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 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 (Country)	Race I		Race II		Race III		Race IV		Race V		Race VI		Total Points	Total -1
		Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
	Switzerland (SUI) Cornelia CHRISTEN Ruedi CHRISTEN	2	3.0	1	0.0	6	11.7	6	11.7	1	0.0	1	0.0	26.4	14.7
	Germany (GER) Rolf BÄHR Christian SPRANGER	1	0.0	5	10.0	1	0.0	1	0.0	9	15.0	10	16.0	41.0	25.0
	Germany (GER) Klaus WENDE Max REICHERT	14	20.0	4	8.0	4	8.0	2	3.0	10	16.0	2	3.0	58.0	38.0
4	Italy (ITA) Alessandro CASTELLI Paolo BRAMBILLA	5	10.0	2	3.0	7	13.0	7	13.0	4	8.0	3	5.7	52.7	39.7
5	Switzerland (SUI) Mario SUTER Andreas HOCHULI	3	5.7	6	11.7	5	10.0	4	8.0	5	10.0	5	10.0	55.4	43.7
6	France (FRA) Gérard AUMONT Régis VIATEUR	4	8.0	7	13.0	9	15.0	3	5.7	2	3.0	13	19.0	63.7	44.7
7	Germany (GER) Jörg FLEISCHER Ralf HÖHLER	9	15.0	3	5.7	2	3.0	5	10.0	7	13.0	12	18.0	64.7	46.7
8	Switzerland (SUI) Rolf HUNKELER Patrick BUSSMANN	6	11.7	9	15.0	3	5.7	11	17.0	8	14.0	8	14.0	77.4	60.4
9	Germany (GER) Gustl TRIMPL SR. Gustl TRIMPL JR.	8	14.0	10	16.0	8	14.0	8	14.0	6	11.7	6	11.7	81.4	65.4
10	Austria (AUT) Manfred SCHUMI Horst FEICHTNER	10	16.0	11	17.0	11	17.0	9	15.0	3	5.7	7	13.0	83.7	66.7
11	France (FRA) Patrice ROUANET Agnes ROUANET	7	13.0	dnf	22.0	10	16.0	10	16.0	11	17.0	4	8.0	92.0	70.0
12	Austria (AUT) Wolfgang RAUCH Nikolaus RAUCH	12	18.0	8	14.0	13	19.0	13	19.0	12	18.0	9	15.0	103.0	84.0
13	France (FRA) François BLONDEL Victor BLONDEL	11	17.0	14	20.0	12	18.0	12	18.0	13	19.0	14	20.0	112.0	92.0
14	France (FRA) Gerard MAZURE Edouard KOCH	13	19.0	13	19.0	14	20.0	14	20.0	14	20.0	11	17.0	115.0	95.0
15	France (FRA) Jean Marie THIERRY Agnes THIERRY	15	21.0	12	18.0	15	21.0	15	21.0	15	21.0	dnf	22.0	124.0	102.0

• 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 Tempest during the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games

Victors

Medalist 2012 Vintage Yachting Games: Tempest

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  Cornelia CHRISTEN (l) and
  Ruedi CHRISTEN (r)
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  Rolf BÄHR (l) and
  Christian SPRANGER (r)
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  Klaus WENDE (l) and
  Max REICHERT (r)

References

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