2008 Vintage Yachting Games – Dragon


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 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:
DateGeneralTemperatureWindWavesPrecipitation
20 September 2008Sunny23C°6–8 m/s NE0.25mDry
21 September 2008Sunny23C°6 m/s NE0.25mDry
22 September 2008Sunny21C°10 m/s N0.5mDry
23 September 2008Overcast14C°18–14 m/s N
Decreasing		0.75mRain
24 September 2008Sunny19C°6–8 m/s NE0.3mDry
25 September 2008Sunny22C°6 m/s NE-E0.1mDry
26 September 2008Sunny22C°6–2 m/s NE-E
Decreasing		0.1mDry
27 September 2008Sunny24C°<2 m/s ENADry

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 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

Victors