First day at the Finnish Championships with altogether 25 yachts competing at the Ytterskär race area. Quite perfect sailing conditions and one of the warmest days of summer.
Results at HSK race pages.
Once again Hanko and HSF showed the best sides of summer and sailing for the more than 200 boats attending the biggest annual sailing regatta in Finland. During the three days everyone could enjoy the good races, sun, wind and good after sail partys. Results are available on the Hanko Regatta webpage.
Photos from Friday (LYS start, race area C and D).
Photos from Saturday (race area D)
Photos from Sunday (2,4mR, Formula 18 and race area C)
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Helsinki Regatta has already during 60 years been the top sailing event in Helsinki. It is nowadays organized by an association Helsinki Sail Racing Management (HSRM) which has the leading Helsinki based sailing clubs BS, HSK, HSS, HTPS, M, NJK and SPS as members. Results on the Helsinki Regatta webpage.
6mR and 5m on Saturday (just a few photos)
F18 on Sunday
6mR and 8mR on Sunday
Dragon, Star, H-boat and Folkboat on Sunday
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First day at the Nordic Folkboat Finnish Championship organized by HTPS. Perfect sailing weather in warm breeze from South-west at Kruunuvuorenselkä in Helsinki. Photos are from the first day of total three. Two boats from Naantali, with Herman Saari and Roni Saksi at helm, leading after the first day. Results.
The 30th Viaporin Tuoppi with many sail yachts outside of Helsinki in the biggest wooden yacht event in Nordic. The light wind and sunny weather guaranteed that people enjoyed both racing on the sea and after sail on land. Some extra after sail photos have been published in the Sailpix Facebook group
For quicker searching of a specific photo, please, check the Sailpix Flickr album.
More Viaporin Tuoppi photos at Jorma Rautapää's Sails and Sea webpage.
The final day at the Hanko Regatta was sunny and windy. Because of the hard wind 6mR and 8mR classes did not sail on race course D at all on Sunday, so final results are based on Friday races only for 6mR and 8mR. 5m class results are based on results from Friday and Saturday. All other classes were out enjoying the sunny but demanding sailing conditions. All results are available at the Hangoregattan.fi webpage.
27 photos from LYS classes start
78 photos from race course C (606, Hai,...
Traditional HSS Spring Cup (ex. Suunto Cup) with 38 yachts in six different classes: 606 (9), Albin Express (5), Dragon (5), Folkboat (4), First 31.7 (10), X-99 (5) . Totally two races were sailed on Saturday. On Sunday the wind was too light for sailing. 80 photos mainly from Saturday second race. Results.
Musto Classic regatta organized by BS had some dramatic collissions and one broken rig this year. These pictures are from the peaceful Sunday afternoon. Musto_2013_results.
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Viaporin Tuoppi is the biggest annual wooden yachts event in the Nordic countries. Not only the sailing along the shores of Helsinki is important, but also the famous, wild, incredible after sail party at the Suomenlinna Island.
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Hanko Regatta 2013 organized by HUS, HSF and ESS, with many separate slideshows
Day 1: 8mR Class / 6mR Class / Albin Express, First 31.7, SM 40, J80.
Day 2: Hai boat / 606, Dragon, A, H-boat, Folkboat / 8mR Class / 6mR Class / After Sail / Extras.