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2013-02-07 04:38:23 - Finnish archipelago sea SLI madness race
I have been talking years about this. So now lets make it. Firts ideas was start Hanko around Åland and back .. too long then might me arourd kökar .. our friends some other finnish sailors and fellow 76t and Scots might help











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2013-02-08 13:05:19 - Re: Finnish archipelago sea madness race
An interesting idea would be to sail this race with 8mR boats, I think Finland has the biggest fleet of eights in the world and also Helsinki is hosting their Worlds this summer, so we might attract some finnish classic sailors that way.

I think we could get the polars for a generic eight somewhere.
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2013-02-12 12:41:29 - Re: Finnish archipelago sea madness race
I like the idea of sailing this race in 8mR in conjunction with their worlds.There has been a resurgence of interest in the class in AUS in recent years and I know of 2 boats from here going to the worlds. Polars should be easy to obtain, several well known designers are producing new designs. David Vieira of Portugal is considered the world authority on 8mRs, he designs, builds and restores them.
“We may have arrived on different ships, but we are all in the same boat now!” Martin Luther King Jr.
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2013-02-14 02:38:11 - Re: Finnish archipelago sea madness race
Have to think about route and think if there should be two races .. original idea was to have crash bbq race but dunno if it respects 8mR ..
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2013-02-25 12:20:44 - Re: Finnish archipelago sea madness race
I am setting something up for this coming weekend (Turku to Helsinki), with Smo's blessing.

Won't in any way interfere with what you guys are up to!

:-)
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OK, its set up. To see it in all its glory you should wait for the next WX update at 1630 today (Monday, 25 Feb) but if you can manage without the full WX Zone then just log in as the sol boat:

USERNAME: sol
PASSWORD: sol

and then click here

If you think the course is too tricky or needs additional waypoints to make it more fun etc just add comments here (after discussing it in race chat no doubt!!)
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2013-02-25 14:00:32 - Re: Finnish archipelago sea madness race
Nice to have this race .. lazy me did not do but our sol Goddness can do so we might have another race for 8mR boats when they race worlds or even before
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2013-02-26 10:43:22 - Re: Finnish archipelago sea madness race
Map of Archipelago Sea National Park .. very popular sailing area said to be most beautifull archipelago in world

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