The Dragon boats raced on the Rosso course, as did the 5.5 metres. Greece Crown Prince Konstantinos finished only 10th in the first race, but then finished no worse than fourth in any of the last six races to win the gold medal by over 1,000 points over the Argentine crew aboard Tango. The Crown Prince received the traditional dunking in honor of his victory, as he was pushed into the water by his mother, Queen Frederika.
The 24th-place yacht, Patricia of the Philippines, never challenged for any honors but one of its crew members later achieved notoriety. Francisco Gonzales settled in the United States in San Francisco and had financial difficulties, and his wife threatened to leave him. Gonzales took out a large insurance policy with his beneficiary and told friends he would die on either 6 or 7 May 1964. He then boarded Pacific Airlines 773 in Reno, Nevada, which was headed for San Francisco. It never made it. Gonzales broke into the cockpit, shot both pilots and then shot and killed himself. The pilot-less aircraft crashed and killed all 44 people on board.
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Points | | | |
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1 | Nirefs | GRE | 6,733 | | Gold | |
| Crown Prince Konstantinos • Odyssevs Eskitzoglou • Georgios Zaimis |
2 | Tango | ARG | 5,715 | | Silver | |
| Jorge Alberto Salas • Héctor Calegaris • Jorge Alberto del Río |
3 | Venilia | ITA | 5,704 | | Bronze | |
| Antonio Cosentino • Antonio Ciciliano • Giulio De Stefano |
4 | Lett | NOR | 5,403 | | | |
| Øivind Christensen • Arild Amundsen • Carl Otto Svae |
5 | Argo II | CAN | 5,177 | | | |
| Sandy MacDonald • Gordon Norton • Lynn Watters |
6 | Chok | DEN | 4,715 | | | |
| Aage Birch • Paul Lindemark Jørgensen • Niels Markussen |
7 | Salamander | GBR | 4,604 | | | |
| Graham Mann • Ian Hannay • Jonathan Janson |
8 | Dinah V | GER | 4,329 | | | |
| Hans Ravenborg • Günther Benecke • Peter Rebien |
9 | Grifo III | POR | 4,051 | | | |
| Carlos Ribeiro Ferreira • Joaquim Pinto Basto • Gonçalo Mello |
10 | Spirit VI | USA | 3,742 | | | |
| Gene Walet, III • Claude Kohler • Allen McClure |
11 | Gabbiano | AUS | 3,733 | | | |
| Harold Brooke • Alan Cain • John Coon |
12 | Aletta | IRL | 3,636 | | | |
| Jimmy Mooney • Robin Benson • David Ryder |
13 | Trintel II | NED | 3,562 | | | |
| Wim van Duyl • Biem Dudok van Heel • Jacq van den Berg |
14 | Astrid III | FRA | 3,438 | | | |
| Jean Peytel • Philippe Reinhart • François Thierry-Mieg |
15 | Oleander II | BER | 2,948 | | | |
| Brownlow Eve • Jimmy Kempe • Dick Masters |
16 | Persey | URS | 2,904 | | | |
| Eduard Stayson • Nikolay Yepifanov • Vyacheslav Mozhayev |
17 | Rififi | FIN | 2,667 | | | |
| René Nyman • Lasse Dahlman • Heinrich Schaarschmidt |
18 | Bim | BAH | 2,159 | | | |
| Godfrey Kelly • Maurice Kelly • Percy Knowles |
19 | Bajazzo | URU | 2,112 | | | |
| Horacio García • Gonzalo García • Víctor Trinchín |
20 | Galejan | SWE | 2,103 | | | |
| Bengt Palmquist • Göran Crafoord • Sten Elliot |
21 | Baccara | SUI | 1,669 | | | |
| Robert Thorens • Pierre Camoletti • Gilbert Casalecchi |
22 | Boreas | JPN | 1,645 | | | |
| Masayuki Ishii • Setsuo Kawada • Yutaka Okamoto |
23 | Damoiselle IV | MON | 1,279 | | | |
| Jules Soccal • Gérard Battaglia • Jean-Pierre Crovetto |
24 | Patricia | PHI | 1,215 | | | |
| Fausto Preysler • Francisco Gonzales • Jesús Villareal |
25 | June Climene | SGP | 1,059 | | | |
| Ned Holiday • James Cooke • Thomas Durcan |
26 | Partenope | INA | 795 | | | |
| Ashari Danudirdjo • Josef Muskita • Eri Sudewo |
27 | Canopus | ESP | 703 | | | |
| Santiago Pi • Juan Mirangels • José Pi |