The Finn

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Finn Dinghy in Gestures

The Olympic Finn dinghy is a catgetakelte 4,5 m-long one-man dinghy with free-standing, rotating and flexible carbon Wingmaster and a 10 foil square sail.
The Finn. as it is called short,was 1949 of the Swedish sailing canoe designer Richard Saarstad for the Olympic Games 1952 (Helsinki) originally designed and manufactured in timber.

60 Years later, largely due to the Finn class wise policy is still the ultimate for the ambitious racing sailor.
Numerous improvements, knows zB. An optimized in terms of mass distribution and torsional GRP hull double bottom construction, modernste Carbonwingmasten, dimensionally stable fiber-reinforced foil-sailing, the various options and trim the timeless, unchanged lines make the Finn to the fastest and most attractive (trapezlosen) Einmannjolle. (As of 11/24/2008 with a compass and an electronic order 3 kg lower body weight.)
An den ca. 80-115 kg, athletic Finn sailors are put considerable demands, but it is, Finn in the fresh breeze to trim as upright as possible, i.e.. ride out, to keep an eye on competitors and to exploit any advantage in terms of tactics resulting from lightning-quick turning maneuvers executed.

Due to the hard school of Finn sailing can be found at the Americas Cup – the most challenging sailing event – a disproportionate number of Finn sailors as skipper, Tacticians and helmsmen. Names as Jochen Schuemann, Willy Kuhweide,  Russel Coutts, John Bertrand, Ian Ainslie, Paul Henderson, Luca Devoti, Ian Percy, Ben Ainslie, Rafael Trujillo, Michael Maier, Anthony Nossiter, Karlo Kuret, Andrew Simpson, Zach Railey court. prove this.

Specifications:

Long 4,50 m,
Width 1,51 m,
Hull weight: 104 kg, no sword
Total weight about. 137 kg,
Since mast 1993 of carbon fiber reinforced plastic ( from 1969 Alu, earlier wood,)
Mainsail 10,0 m2 aus Carbon/Kevlar-Folien.
Draft 0,15 to 0,85 m.

Price from 10000 and 15000 Euro.

Shipyards:

• Mader (Germany),

• Devoti (Republicans Tchechische),

• Leg (Hungary),

• Wilke (Switzerland) ,

• Jibetech (USA)

Regattas:

In addition to the Ranking regattas and national championships Each year the Goldcup (World Cup) and Masters (World Cup over the 39-year-old Finn sailors) and European Championships discharged.

The German Ranking, for about. 65 Regattas include, included 2009 as. 150 Sailor, are connected to more than 9 Races attended. In addition to the approximately. 300 active racing sailors will use the Finn for his good all properties in the leisure area of ​​amateur sailors like.

Ranking Events: http://www.finn-dinghy.de/dfsv-termine/

History:

Germany won Olympic medals for Willy Kuhweide (1964, Gold) and Jochen Schuemann (1976, Gold). Other participants were 1972 Walter May (Place 12) , 1988 Thomas Schmid (Place 6) and 2000 as well as 2004 Michael Fellmann.
Outstanding Finn sailors were / are the Dane Paul Elvström (Gold 1952, 1956, 1960) and British Ben Ainslie (Gold 2004, 2008).

History of the Finn Dinghy / Olympia and Goldcup

Germany's best Finn sailors

Promotion of young / Finn Team Germany

The Association for the promotion of junior sport in the Finn Dinghy Class Association. in September 2006 been founded by active Finn sailors, to facilitate young sailors the way to the top by providing material and moral support.

See: http://www.finnteamgermany.de/

Distribution:

Members of the International Finn Association:
ARG, OFF, AUT, BAR, BLR, BEL, GOOD, BUL, CAN, CHN, CRO, CZE, CYP, THE, IS, END, FROM, GER, GBR, GRE, THEIR, IND, IRL, ITA, LTU, MY, DOWN, NZL, NOR, POL, BY, RUS, SRB, SLO, RSA, ESP, SWE, ON, TOUR, UKR, USA, COME.

Overall, the Finn in about 60 Countries sailed.

Number of members of some class associations:

GER – ca. 350 , DOWN – ca. 190, USA –asa. 100

Photos:

http://www.finn-dinghy.de/photo/

Videos:

http://www.finn-dinghy.de/videos/

Classic-Finns

The entry into the Finn class is also absorbed through a. Classic-Finn, i.e.. possible at an earlier ranking regattas no longer competitive Finn, with which one if necessary. can gain their first experiences in racing regattas Yardstick.
The 2007 Yardstick fixed with wooden figures for Finns- allow older boats or aluminum mast and a front regatta placement:

• Finn with carbon mast and sail any - 110
• Finn with aluminum mast with any sail - 112
• Finn Holzrigg with Dacronsegel - 114.

See also: www.finn-dinghy.de/classic

Image © Rick Tomlinson

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Devoti Finn

Photo: (C) Fifi Ehlers

Mader Finn

(C) Fifi Ehlers

Classic-Finn

(C) Harm Adriaans

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