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2024 Photo Calendar is now available HERE

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2024 Calendar

Finn World Masters, Puntala, ITA, 7-14 June, www.finnworldmasters.com

Finn Gold Cup/Finn Silver Cup, Aarhus, DEN, 31 August to 7 September, 2024.finngoldcup.org

Senior, U23 and Masters Europeans, Cannes, FRA, 19-26 October, 2024.finneuropeans.org

 

Read the February 2023 newsletter here.

 

2023 FINN SILVER CUP - EVENT PAGE
All information and links

 

How to follow the 2023 Finn Gold Cup in Miami

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2023 MAJOR EVENTS

Finn Gold Cup, Miami, USA, Jan 24-31, Website
Open and U23 Europeans, Csopak, Balaton, HUN 12-18 May Website
Finn World Masters, Kavala, GRE, 26 May-2 June Website
Silver Cup, AVAL-CDC, Lake Como, ITA, 3rd week July - Web page
European Masters, Campione del Garda, ITA, Sept 2-8 Web page

2022 AGM papers can all be found here

2023 Finn Gold Cup website

Update on 2022 Open and U23 Europeans

 

Statement from the Finn Class on the situation in Ukraine (published 1 March 2022)

All current news articles can be found in the menu on the left. Archived news can be found under the NEWS menu above.

 

Press

Media

The Finn class operates an integrated media platform which includes many third party services such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr.

Services

Daily regatta reports
The Finn class produces in depth daily reports from its major championships and briefer daily reports from most Sailing World Cup events which are circulated to a wide mailing list including sailors, press, national authorities and interested parties. You can subscribe to the service here

Photos
Photos can be downloaded royalty free from the Finn Class site at Flickr (see below). Higher resolution photos are available on request. Photos  for commercial use can be obtained for a small fee. More details here.

Media output

Class Website: www.finnclass.org
This is where you are now. Updated all year round with news reports from events, plus features and interviews. Gets around half a million hits a year, peaking during a major regatta.

Event sites:
www.finngoldcup.org/YEAR (for the Finn Gold Cup)
www.finneuropeans.org/ecYEAR (for the Finn Open and Junior European Championships)
These web addresses are made available to regatta organisers each year to create the event site.

Class YouTube site: www.youtube.com/thefinnchannel
The place for all the videos. Launched at the end of 2008 it has already had more than 500,000 video views with hundreds of Finn class videos posted.

Flickr page for Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/97957734@N04 (all photos from 2013 onwards)
To find a photo select a SET and search. Some photos are tagged so try searching. To download, click on the thumbnail, then right click on the larger image and select the size you wish to download. Most images are stored at least 3000 pixels wide.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/Finn_Class
Around 30-50 tweets are sent per day during Europeans and Gold Cups mainly from on the water bringing updates to race schedules and mark by mark roundings. The feed is also repeated on the blog and the website. Has 2,700 followers (February 2014)

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Finn-Class/110408332633
Launched in early 2010, it quickly attracted a large fan base. [3,900 by February 2014]. All reports, results and photos are repeated here as well as more urgent announcements and press releases.

Boat tracking
The IFA works with organisers to encourage use of boat GPS tracking systems. At the 2009 Finn Gold Cup n Vallensbaek, Denmark, deivices were fitted to all boats for the whole regatta with the assistance of the Danish Sailing Federation. The organisers stated they were getting upwards of 8,000 tracking windows opened each day by the end of the week.

Media partners
The Finn Class is very grateful for the ongoing support from its Media Partners:

       

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Press photos

Web quality photos can be downloaded and used with credit from: http://picasaweb.google.com/FinnClass. A selection of royalty free high resolution photos is available below

Please credit: (c) finnclass.org on all photos. Right click on image to download or click on image to open image in new window. If you want to use any photos for commercial purposes or for personal promotion and would like to make a donation please go here

 
 

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