Category: Photos

Hanko Regatta 2017

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After a 3 week windy period it was time again for Finland’s greatest annual race sailing regatta in Hanko. Weak wind and clear sunny weather kept the sailors long days on the sea, so it was real aftersail party after all sailing days. Not so much actionful photos in the mix of 76 sailing photos, […]
After a 3 week windy period it was time again for Finland's greatest annual race sailing regatta in Hanko. Weak wind and clear sunny weather kept the sailors long days on the sea, so it was real aftersail party after all sailing days. Not so much actionful photos in the mix of 76 sailing photos, but the better feeling on the pier. List of all Hanko Regatta photos 2006-2017.   The aftersail photos are from Saturday with 6mR yacht Boré III celebrating her 80 years and from the traditional...

Finn training in Hanko

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Let me tell you about the strange incident that lead to these nice photos. Yesterday, 4th of July, I went to the local S-Market in Hanko shopping some food. On the way in I saw a drunk guy walking wrong way through the closed entrance gate carrying two boxes of beer in his hands. A […]
Let me tell you about the strange incident that lead to these nice photos. Yesterday, 4th of July, I went to the local S-Market in Hanko shopping some food. On the way in I saw a drunk guy walking wrong way through the closed entrance gate carrying two boxes of beer in his hands. A clear shoplifter (myymälävaras). Something had to be done. A group of young guys entering the store after me also noted what was happening. We agreed to catch the guy and ran after him. He had disappeared behind the...

Women’s Match Race World Championship 2017, NJK

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NJK hosting the Women’s Match Racing World Championship in Helsinki. The results and more media are available at the event Facebook page. Read also the World Sailing press release. Photos from the finals (bronze) Palludan – Östling and (gold) McGregor – Groenevold   Photos from semifinals 21.6.2017: Palludan against Groeneveld and Östling against MacGregor   […]
NJK hosting the Women's Match Racing World Championship in Helsinki. The results and more media are available at the event Facebook page. Read also the World Sailing press release. Photos from the finals (bronze) Palludan - Östling and (gold) McGregor - Groenevold   Photos from semifinals 21.6.2017: Palludan against Groeneveld and Östling against MacGregor   Photos from Round Robin 19.6.2017

Audi Dinghy Regatta 2017, HSF

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Europe and Zoom8 class dinghies weekend regatta organized by Hangö Segelförening (HSF). Photos (52) are from Sunday with more wind than on Saturday, but unfortunately also some clouds. Many individual photos of the junior sailors.   If you were sailing at this Audi Dinghy Regatta, you can get the photo of yourself FOR FREE in full resolution […]
Europe and Zoom8 class dinghies weekend regatta organized by Hangö Segelförening (HSF). Photos (52) are from Sunday with more wind than on Saturday, but unfortunately also some clouds. Many individual photos of the junior sailors.   If you were sailing at this Audi Dinghy Regatta, you can get the photo of yourself FOR FREE in full resolution by sending your info in the form below. Your email address will not be used for anything else.  

Baltic Offshore Week 2017, M

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Baltic Offshore Week 2017 is at the same time Finnish and Estonian offshore championships. The race base is at the beautiful island “Särkkä” in Helsinki. This year BOW is organized by Merenkävijät and Kalev Yacht Club. Photos (77) are from the first day whan the boats start for the long offshore course in bright sunshine […]
Baltic Offshore Week 2017 is at the same time Finnish and Estonian offshore championships. The race base is at the beautiful island "Särkkä" in Helsinki. This year BOW is organized by Merenkävijät and Kalev Yacht Club. Photos (77) are from the first day whan the boats start for the long offshore course in bright sunshine and light wind.   Results can be found on the event homepage bow.fi

Women’s Z80 Match Race Cup, NJK

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NJK Sailing Center organized a good opportunity to get familiar with the J80 boats before the coming Women´s  Match Race World Championship 16th-21st of June in Helsinki. Here 55 photos from Sunday semifinals and finals.   The teams in the photos and results TOP4: 1. Mikaela Fors (FIN) 2. Trine Palludan (DEN) 3. Antonia Degerlund […]
NJK Sailing Center organized a good opportunity to get familiar with the J80 boats before the coming Women´s  Match Race World Championship 16th-21st of June in Helsinki. Here 55 photos from Sunday semifinals and finals.   The teams in the photos and results TOP4: 1. Mikaela Fors (FIN) 2. Trine Palludan (DEN) 3. Antonia Degerlund (FIN) 4. Marinella Laaksonen (FIN)  

Suursaari Race 2017

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Suursaari Race is Finlands biggest offshore race and this was the 27th year that it was organized. The race course is interesting as the Suursaari island, which you sail around, before was a part of Finland but today belongs to Russia. The 52 photos are from the start on Friday evening, before the yachts disappeared […]
Suursaari Race is Finlands biggest offshore race and this was the 27th year that it was organized. The race course is interesting as the Suursaari island, which you sail around, before was a part of Finland but today belongs to Russia. The 52 photos are from the start on Friday evening, before the yachts disappeared in the horizon. This years race was special as for first time a real maxi yacht attended, when Ludde Ingvalls "CQS" was in the race (photos at the end of the slideshow). During photographing...

WB Sails Round the Buyous 2017, HSK

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Traditional windward leeward race organized by Helsingfors Segelklubb (HSK) sailed in light wind and clear sunshine. Winner of the bigger ORC A class was Tea Ekengren / Swan 45 “Blue Nights”, followed by Vesa Särkikangas / Sinergia 40 “Adela” and Jani Lehti / Next 37 “Mercedes-AMG”. Winner of the ORC B class was Joonas Sandholm […]
Traditional windward leeward race organized by Helsingfors Segelklubb (HSK) sailed in light wind and clear sunshine. Winner of the bigger ORC A class was Tea Ekengren / Swan 45 "Blue Nights", followed by Vesa Särkikangas / Sinergia 40 "Adela" and Jani Lehti / Next 37 "Mercedes-AMG". Winner of the ORC B class was Joonas Sandholm / First 36.7 "Arwen". Also worth mentioning is the new yacht type Farr 52 "Audi e-tron" in Finland, making it's debut in Sailpix photos.  All results (pdf download). ORC...

Krångel Star Challenge 2017, ESS

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Second year for the Krångel Star Challenge organized by Ekenäs Segelsällskap (ESS). 10 boats sailed 9 races in excellent conditions with light to medium breeze. The Classic winner (over all 6th place) was Anders Hedman & Kustaa Lahtinen with Old Gipsy (FIN 4378) an Old Greenwich built boat from 1961. The over all winner was Stefan […]
Second year for the Krångel Star Challenge organized by Ekenäs Segelsällskap (ESS). 10 boats sailed 9 races in excellent conditions with light to medium breeze. The Classic winner (over all 6th place) was Anders Hedman & Kustaa Lahtinen with Old Gipsy (FIN 4378) an Old Greenwich built boat from 1961. The over all winner was Stefan Winqvist and Olle Tötterman (FIN 8073, Courage). 4 Classic boats participated. Special thanks to Ken Thilman for the boat ride during photographing.