Period July 7 to July 14 Boats 20 Gold The Netherlands | Competitors 20 Countries 3 | |
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Race area Campo Bravo,
Dervio,
Italy | ||
The O-Jolle was an event on the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games program at Lake Como, Italy. Five out of the nine scheduled race were completed. 11 sailors, on 20 boats, from 3 nations entered.
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Race area and Course
Of the three Campo's (Race Area's) available for the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games at Lake Como Campo Bravo was used for the O-Jolle event. In general this Campo is situated in front of the city of Dervio.
For the 2012 edition of the Vintage Yachting Games three different courses were available. The O-Jolle could only use course 3.
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 was low during the Vintage. 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 unstable 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.
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Summary
In the O-Jolle, Olympic in 1936, at Campo Bravo only five races could be completed. The Dutch sailors took the first three places. Ton OP DE WEEGH once again was victorious at Lake Como. He became European Champion here two years ago and showed once again that this is his lake! Silver was for Martin BAAS and the bronze for Thies BOSCH in his new boat.