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.
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