Period July 7 to July 14 Boats 13 Gold Ukraine | Competitors 39 Countries 7 | |
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The Soling was an event on the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games program at Lake Como, Italy. Six out of the nine scheduled race were entered. 39 sailors, on 13 boats, from 7 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 Charlie was used for the Soling event. In general this Campo is situated in front of the city of Bellano.
For the 2012 edition of the Vintage Yachting Games three different courses were available. The Soling could only use course 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.
Summary
In the Soling six out of the planned nine races were completed.
The Soling class (Olympic between 1972 – 2000) really brought the top sailors of their countries to Lake Como. When the races started it could be anyones series. When the dust of the first two days of racing was settled Peter Neumann, Rudolf Rager, Rudolf Hubauer, form Austria, Igor Yushko, Sergiy Pichugin, Dmitriy Yarmolenka, from Ukraine and Rudy den Outer, Gavin Lidlow, Ramzi Souli, from The Netherlands, were battling for gold. In the final race the decision came: UKR gold, AUT bronze and NED silver.