page_title: Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 49er
section_title: Course areas and course configurations
hierarchical_section_title: Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 49er / Course areas and course configurations
caption_attribution_description: Weymoutho Olympic Course Areas 2012 This map was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community. This map may be incomplete, and may contain errors. Don't rely solely on it for navigation.
context_page_description: The men's 49er was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. Sixteen races were scheduled and completed. 40 sailors, on 20 boats, from 20 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth, where each position scored double points.
context_section_description: For the 49er course areas Portland, Nothe, and West were used. The location (50° 35.19’ N, 02° 26.54’ W) points to the center Portland course area, the location (50° 36.18’ N 02° 25.98’ W) points to the center of the Nothe course area and the location (50° 37.18’ N 02° 23.55’ W) points to the center of the West course area. The target time for the course was 30 minutes for the races as well as the medal race. The race management could choose from many course configurations.
caption: Course areas
        Portland (P)   Nothe (N)   West (W)    South (S)   East (E)
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