Sailing at the 1928 Summer Olympics – 12' Dinghy explained

The 12' Dinghy was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 1928 Summer Olympics program in Amsterdam. A combination of Preliminary series and final series were scheduled. 23 sailors from 20 nations competed on twelve 12' Dinghies that were supplied by the Royal Dutch Yachting Union (Koninklijke Verbonden Nederlandsche Watersport Vereenigingen).

Race schedule

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- ! rowspan = 2	Date ! colspan = 9	August	- ! 2nd Thu	3rd Fri	4th Sat	5th Sun	6th Mon	7th Tue	8th	- align="center"	12' Dinghy	bgcolor=#3399ff	1 – 10 11 – 20	bgcolor=#3399ff	Odd Even	bgcolor=#3399ff	1 – 10 11 – 20	bgcolor=#3399ff	Odd Even	bgcolor=#cedff2	Spare day	bgcolor=#ffcc00	●●	bgcolor=#ffcc00	●●	- align="center"	- ! Total gold medals							1	-

For the 12' Dinghy the courses were just outside the locks on the buiten Y in front of Durgerdam.

At that time the Zuiderzee had an open connection with the North Sea. The sea water was salt or at best brackish.

- !Date	Race	Wind speed	Wind direction	-	2-AUG-1928	1st race 1 – 10 2nd race 11 – 20	7kn - 10kn		-	3-AUG-1928	1st race odd 2nd race even	8kn - 11kn		-	4-AUG-1928	1st race 1 – 10 2nd race 11 – 20	11kn - 17kn		-	5-AUG-1928	1st race odd 2nd race even	13kn - 21kn		-	7-AUG-1928	2 contests	8kn - 11kn		-	8-AUG-1928	2 contests	10kn - 13kn

The 1928 Olympic scoring system was used.

The dinghies sails were assigned as follows:

- !Dinghy number (1–10)	Country	Dinghy number (11–20)	Country	Category	-	1		11		Odd	-	2		12		Even	-	3		13		Odd	-	4		14		Even	-	5		15		Odd	-	6		16		Even	-	7		17		Odd	-	8		18		Even	-	9		19		Odd	-	10		20		Even

For this event one yacht from each country, manned by 1 amateur maximum (maximum number of substitutes 1) was allowed.
This event was a gender independent event. However it turned out to be a man's only event.

During the Sailing regattas at the 1928 Summer Olympics among others the following persons were competing in the various classes: