Finn (dinghy)

The Finn also for a more detailed explanation Finn dinghy or Finn dinghy is an Olympic one-man sailboat. It was designed in 1949 by the Swedish hairdresser and boat designer Rickard Sarby. Since the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, the Finn is used as a one-man dinghy at the Olympic sailing competition.

3.1 The Olympic Games
3.2 Rankings regattas

History

In January 1949, the Finnish Yacht Association [ Finnish Yachting Association ( FYA ) ] organized a design competition for a new Olympic one-man dinghy for the upcoming Olympic Summer Games 1952 in Helsinki ( Finland). The Firefly dinghy of the Olympic Games of 1948 and the O- Jolle the 1936 Olympics liked the Scandinavian sailors not so good. In the host country Finland, the Olympic Games, the Snipe dinghies were very common in Denmark, there was a large fleet of pirate dinghies, Norway had Snipes dinghies and many Oslo dinghies. In Sweden there was to the south by the proximity to Denmark many pirate dinghies and to the east a few Snipe sailing dinghy. But Numerically, the most significant were about 500 sailing canoes, which had no other Scandinavian country. The design competition of the FYA for a new Olympic dinghy therefore based primarily on the idea of finding a new innerskandinavische dinghy to create as a viable dinghy for the Olympic sailing events. The Finns were unselfish all technical details of the Swedes, as they were of the opinion that they derive greater expertise in the area of construction of small boats.

Rickard Sarby won the competition after a series of trial races with a design Fint, which had proved to be the fastest dinghy. In the hull shape the dinghy strongly resembled a canoe and was decidedly kept simple. On 15 May 1950, the Finnish Yachting Association decided Fint as an Olympic one-man dinghy to take over. The name was changed to Finn ( = fin ) and used as a sailing mark two blue waves. Later, the FYA acquired the full rights to build the Finn.

Rickard Sarby provided in addition to the 1:1 designs also the first prototype. In the Finn class is fought since 1952 without interruption for Olympic medals. All well-known sailors in the world have fought in their career sailors times in the boot class Finn to top rankings. The first gold medal and two more in a row in this boat class won the Dane Paul Elvstrøm, the much dominated the development of the Finn over many years by its own innovations.

From 1949 to 1960, the wooden hulls were manufactured from 1961 plastic hulls had been officially approved by the international class organization. Nevertheless, in 1964 won the Austrian Hubert Raudaschl the " Gold Cup " with a self-built wooden hull. The masts were still made of wood. The leading designer was Georges brother from Brazil, who later also produced aluminum masts. At the Olympic Games in 1972 before keel aluminum masts of the company Needlespar were then introduced.

Boat builder

The hulls were made of the following boat builders:

Fairey Marine, United Kingdom: 1955-1964, built more than 100 hulls that were particularly durable so many still exist today, many hulls have been delivered to the individual final at the sailors.
Vötterl, Starnberger See: The sailing magazine YACHT reported in 1980 that some sailors of the SC- Worthsee had given with the financial support of the DSV at Vötterl the first German Finns in order. The complete price had amounted to 1,600 DM. 400 amounted to DEM, the grant of the DSV.
VEB Yachtwerft Berlin, built from 1956 to 1990 hundreds of DDR Finns in series, about 100 pcs. / A, originally constructed in timber, and later from around 1970 made of GRP. Many boats went to export to CMEA countries, especially in the USSR.
Shipyard H. Schreiber, Berlin- Köpenick, built from 1970 about 10pcs. / A Finn - Eigenkonstuktionen until the end of the 1980s, commissioned by the DDR-Leistungssports/FES for DDR Club sailor, Jochen Schumann won on writer - Finn Olympic gold (1976 ), numerous writers - Finns are still in national class on German coalfields.
Elvstrom Finns, Denmark: until the mid- 1970s, one of the first plastic hulls, which were very successful.
Pearsson, United Kingdom: 1962-1973, built the " bread and butter " Finns and could never place competitive Olympic boats. The company Dunhill used a fleet of these Finns for " Finn Finder" junior Sichtungsregatten.
Tiptree Navy, ( Essex ), United Kingdom: 1967 to 1969, the hulls were not as good as that of Pearson and too heavy for the top-level sport, but were used for club fleets.
Butler, United Kingdom: 1967-1968, there are few hulls were built, similar in quality to the Pearson boats, but more successful. They were mainly used for club races.
Newport, United States. Newport Finns, who were known for their speed, has been built only to about 1968.
Teel, USA: Teel - Finns, who were regarded as successors of the Newport - Finns, were also very fast and high quality. Especially famous was the Teel - Finn G1 hamburger Thomas Jungblut, who achieved very good results with the boat during high-level regattas.
Lanaverre, France: Lanaverre - Finns were produced from 1961 to the early 1980s. With a five year old Lanaverre - Finn, G 1573, was Wolfgang Gerz 1980 German Masters. The Lanaverre hulls were made of GRP sandwich construction. The deck consisted of marine plywood.
Roga, Spain, Barcelona: Roga Finns counted in the 1970's to the fastest boats, and became known especially by the great success of Luis Doreste Blanco. In the late 1970s, when the Vanguard Finns were dominant, the Roga - Finns could keep still. Roga builds no more Finns, but 420- he, Europe, Vaurien, Estel and optimist.
Raudaschl - Finn, Austria: Hubert Raudaschl, the times ten took part in the Olympic Games and two silver medals except among others five European Championships and two World Championship title, built his own words from 1965 to 1972 about 770 Finns in strips of wood construction, which have been very successful in the 1960s and were sailed on all five continents. The most famous Raudaschl - Finn is Willi Kuhweides Darling with which he became world champion in 1966 and 1967. Darling is on display in the Maritime Museum Bremerhaven.
Peter Taylor, Great Britain, produced very good wooden hulls. He built the first one Finn with double bottom. The hulls were very successful and dominated the 1976 Gold Cup and the World Championships. He built almost all UK registered Finns 1979-1993.
Shipyard Hein, Elmshorn: Gustaf Hein first planked Finns built and also built formverleimte hulls. Kurt Hein built from 1971 GfK Finns with plywood deck and cockpit floor and partly in GRP or plywood. Hein - Finns are very high quality as high. The last Hein - Finn was established in 1985.
Shipyard Mader, Germany: very good built wooden hulls and became known through the plastic hulls for the 1972 Olympic Games worldwide.
Vanguard Finns, USA: From 1975 by brothers Peter and Olaf Harken ( Harken, Inc.) produces, Vanguard also questioned the Finns for the Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984 and Barcelona in 1992 ago. The hulls were made only with wooden floor and later with the double floor. It produced several highly successful designs. The company produced over many years, the most successful Finn's world.
Devoti Finns: finished by 1993 Tim Tavinor (England), who built the boats and Luca Devoti ( silver medalist in 2000 ), who was responsible for the distribution of the dominance of the Vanguard Finns from the U.S..

Today, the hull of the Finn is of the shipyard Mader ( Germany ), Devoti Sailing (Czech Republic), Pata (Hungary ), Ch Wilke ( Switzerland ), and JIbetech ( USA), where the Lemieux - Finn is produced. In Brazil, Finn dinghies are made (as of 2009 ).

A new time for the Finn dinghy began in 1993 with the introduction of the carbon mast, the reduction of the mast weight from 10.5 to 8 kg (1994) and the sailing from the Mylar material in 1998.

The sail numbers are assigned in this class of boat since 1993 no longer in the order of production of the ship, but personal.

Hull

The class rules first adopted in the Swedish language in September 1950 ( Class Rules) exclusively contained provisions on the wood construction with Karweelbeplankung, which led to a constant thickness of the cladding due to uniform plank strengths. This is probably also true for the boats later produced made of laminated plywood.

The rule change ( Rule Changes) of 1962/1964 the Finn should approximate as close as possible to the planked boat Karweel again by the Buggewicht was prescribed and determined: A -assisted in Frame 3 boat had a Buggewicht of at least 21 kg. have.
The vertical weight distribution was also prescribed and checked during the survey. Placed on the skirting board ( gunwale ), allowed the boat with all balancing weights max. Balance 50 cm from the vertical surface.

2008: The hull weight (including sword) will be reduced from 119 to 116 kg, and electronic compasses are allowed.

Regatta and Races

Olympic games

List of Olympic sailing

Rankings regattas

In addition to the ranking regattas and the National Championships of the " Gold Cup " (World Cup ) and the "Masters " (World Championship of over 39 -year-old Finn sailors ) and the European Championships are held annually.

The German ranking list, are counted for approximately 65 ranking regattas included in 2010 about 160 sailors who had taken part in 9 or more races.

Classic - Finn

For older Finn dinghy, which are no longer competitive in the current ranking regattas, offers itself in the leisure sector participation in Yardstick regattas. Due to different yard stick figures is for Finn - Oldies with wooden or aluminum mast approximate equality. Since 2007, the Yardstick following numbers apply:

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

Lemieux - Finn with carbon wing mast and sail foil

Hein - Finn, Year 1980, GRP hull, wooden deck, Dacronsegel

Raudaschl - Finn, Year 1972, in strips of wood with a sheet sail

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