AGB FINANCE-2009 FINN SENIOR AND JUNIOR OPEN EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP What could be better? Wind, sun, waves, good racing…The Finn sailors truly enjoyed their first day in the European Championship on the Black Sea. The city of Varna and its sea garden bordered with sandy beaches, offered a nice background for the racing set close to shore. [...]
Sunday, August 23, 2009
The Yacht Club Captain G. Georgev in Varna, Bulgaria will host the AGB Finance – 2009 Finn Open Championship in the Senior and Junior divisions from the 21st to the 29th of August. Over 70 sailors have gathered from 21 countries with strong attendance recorded from Eastern Europeans. Russia, Czech Republic, Poland, Greece and the host [...]
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Lighter winds were a welcome relief to some on day two of the Finn class’s 60th Anniversary Regatta on Lake Ekoln, near Uppsala in Sweden. Three more races were completed after a short delay to allow the wind to fill in. The Dutch team continued to dominate, with Karel van Hellmond (NED) winning two races [...]
Friday, August 14, 2009
Day one: Dutch domination on Lake Ekoln It says on the t-shirts “Where it all started…” and for the 56 Finn sailors who made it to Uppsala, despite the horrible forecast, that is what it is all about. This is where the class started and the club, looking much the same as when the first Finn [...]
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
For three days this coming weekend, Uppsala in Sweden will become the centre of the universe for Finn sailors. Sixty years ago in 1949 the first Finn was launched there by its designer Rickard Sarby in his attempt to win a design competition to select the monotype dinghy for the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. That attempt was of course [...]
Monday, August 10, 2009
The Pata Boats Finn Junior World Championship for the Jorg Bruder Silver Cup finished with a Brazilian victory, Russian silver and Ukrainian bronze medal at Balatonfüred Yacht Club. A third race win to Jorge Zarif (BRA) gave him the gold medal by a significant margin, while Egor Larionov (RUS) and Andriy Gusenko (UKR) placed sixth and eighth to hang [...]
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Although two starts were attempted, only one race was completed on the penultimate day of the Pata Boats Finn World Juniors at Balatonfüred in Hungary. Sailing very well, Jorge Zarif (BRA) won the race and goes into the medal race with a useful six point lead from Egor Larionov (RUS), and nine points from Andriy Gusenko (UKR). The weather was [...]
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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