News

Boat Speed and Performance

Jan 24, 2017

By Karl Purdie, reprinted from Finn Masters Magazine 2014

25 Years of HIT Masts

Jan 23, 2017

Suzanne van der Horst tells the story of HIT Masts and her father, Jan van der Horst

The Finn gets under your skin

Jan 23, 2017

Tim Tavinor talks about his time in the class and his return with a new boat with Petticrows.

The Master Athlete

Jan 23, 2017

By Ross Hamilton (first published in the 2016 Finn Masters Magazine)

Classic Finns

Jan 23, 2017

Maertin Hughes talks about the growing, and nostalgic, trend in restoring and sailing a Classic Finn

Judging and common infringements

Jan 23, 2017

Chris Watts talks about judging the Finn World Masters and common infringements

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Following the deadline of February 1 for submissions to host the 2024 Finn European Masters, the only bid recieved was from the Yacht Club de Cannes.

Therefore they have been offered the event and have accepted.

The expected dates will be in early October.

Cannes is a popular venue for the class with the annual Semaine Internationale de Cannes de Finn the traditional season opener in Europe. YC de Cannes also boasts one of the biggest Finn fleets in France, if not the world.

The class looks forward to having its first major championship there for 20 years, after the Finn World Masters was hosted in Cannes in 2004.

Dear Finn Masters

Never in the history of the Finn class has the Finn World Masters been held in Finland. Seventy years ago, in 1952, however, Helsinki marked the beginning of a long Olympic history for the Finns with the first Olympics to include the Finn. To celebrate this anniversary, the 2022 Finn World Masters is being held in Helsinki with many reminders during the week of that first Finn Olympics seven decades ago.

ENTRY FOR FINN WORLD MASTERS OPENS ON DECEMBER 1

The organisation is well underway and the Finnish fleet is very keen to put on a great event for all of us. We have now published the Notice of Race and entry opens this week. All the links are below.

The championship is being organised by Helsinki Sail Racing Management (HSRM), in cooperation with the Finnish Sailing and Boating Federation, the Finnish Finn Class sailors and the City of Helsinki.

The harbour at Helsingfors Segelklubb (HSK) includes a great clubhouse, fabulous restaurant, saunas and permanent changing rooms and is the best venue for dinghy sailing in the Helsinki region. It is located just 4 km from downtown Helsinki. The club can easily accommodate over 300 boats with trailers and cars on its premises. There are two 30-40 metre ramps next to dinghy parks.

Camping is possible at HSK with space for 40-50 camper vans, and a few tents, or at NJK just 3 km away. Most of the Helsinki boat equipment shops are located within walking distance. There are many different racing areas available, for all conditions. The nearest one is about 1.5 nm away.

There is lot of information on the event website regarding the venue and travel, with much more being added over the next few months.

Entry opens on December 1.

The event website is fwm2022.com

The entry form and Notice on Race can be found on Manage2Sail here.

Watch the video for an overview of the venue and the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2v2w_sSPDY

MASTERS EUROPEANS

We have also published a lot of early information about the Master Europeans h ere at Club Náutico Hospitalet-Vandellos, in L'Hospitalet de l'Infant, Tarragona, Spain. This is being held in mid-September.

FURTHER AFIELD

Looking further afield we are also talking to the organisers for the 2023 and 2024 Finn World Masters. I am sure you agree that we have a great programme of events and venues ahead of us in the next five years, with a lot of interest already in venues after this current programme is concluded. There has never been a better time to sail the Finn Masters events and as the world hopefully returns to near normal, I am sure we will begin the see the big numbers return.

It may interest you to know that the mailing list for these newsletters goes out to over 1,000 Finn Masters, including both those who have done a Finn Masters event in the last five years as well as those who have signed up to receive the news.

I look forward to seeing you at one or more regattas in 2022 and wish you all a happy New Year when that time arrives.

Andy Denison
President