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About International Finn Class
This singlehanded boat was designed specifically for the Olympics and requires sailors to be average size or above. The fiberglass hull is built to very tight tolerances ensuring a strict one design shape. Well maintained boats from the 1990’s are still competitive and win national events. The high technology, un-stayed carbon fiber mast is available in different degrees of flexibility to suit the sailor’s physical capabilities and allow a wider range of heights and weights to be competitive. The Finn performs very well in both light air, making it ideally suited for small lakes, and is robust enough to be sailed in extreme conditions.
The class culture and community has been best expressed by sailing legend Gus Miller:
“Without a lot of friends, you cannot have good racing, nor can you have good practice, nor can you have an intensely enjoyable time that leaves your life richer. Finn sailors share the knowledge that even if you master yourself, you can never master the boat – it is too subtle to accomplish this.
Finn sailors try to outwork each other, destroy the others on the water with that hard work, then come ashore in sharing the resulting intense adversity. This generates a kind of love that then gets shared with newcomers who will receive lots of help in figuring things out.”
New fleets are forming around the country.
Videos of Interest:
Finn tacking tips – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iXFQDslkto
Finn Gybing with plenty of breeze on! 30 knot gusts! – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wyd82-CV2I
Steering in waves – YouTube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNl3rlYdZPE
Finn Pumping explained by Ben Ainslie – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEQttj8E1b0
light wind sail trim/speed training Finn Club Holland – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efKMsCLcqmc
Dinghy Academy: Finn free pumping in 20 knots, a hard day at work… – YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj2QrrfO2u8
Finn Class Rule 42 Clinic 2015 – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NynKiO8w0Rs
Rule 42: Finn Class Common Breaches – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6OFea9rZA8
Rule 42 Part 2 – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzaBzEXk8qU
Fitness
Sailing Workout Plan: The 15 Best Home Exercises for Sailors – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoVf-TP-44A
Fitness Top Tips with Finn Sailor Andrew Mills – Pumping Iron with the British Sailing Team – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrjG7SegyAQ
Computer Animations
Dynamic simulation of the Finn sailing in waves – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTN-4ISwAJs
Interference between boats when sailing upwind – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udiLSjJy6_s
Star Class CFD Animation – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIMTxNBLSnE
From 6 to 20 knots in 10 seconds. A dynamic Finn simulation – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGa-_5yoh9s
Finn Free Pumping – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HknYHzhv0AA
Flow separation Finn sail – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERoWHwHPveE
Finn Technology
Finn Mast Project@Dassault Systemes – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_V7VMbBhjw
Flow visualisation with particles around a Finn sail – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m58zdJEsFvk
General
TheFinnChannel – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFinnChannel
Design
Boats Produced: Over 35,000
Class boat builder(s):
Devoti Sailing, devotisailing.com/finn/
Jibetech, www.jibetech.com
Pata Marine, info@patafinn.hu
Approximately how many boats are in the USA/North America? 1100
Where is your One-Design class typically sailed in the USA? List regions of the country:
Florida, California, Midwest, Northeast, Colorado, Gulf Coast
Does this class have a spinnaker or gennaker? No
Ideal combined weight of range of crew: 180-260 Lbs
Boat Designed in 1949
Beam: 60″
Weight of rigged boat without sails: 205 Lbs.
Draft: 39″
Mast Height: 22′