Masters events across the world
UK Masters
Swedish Masters
UK Masters and Open Championship
A healthy entry of 36 boats from over 13 UK clubs travelled to Mengeham Rythe SC on 26-27 June for the 2021 Masters Championship and open, including several new recruits to the growing British Finn fleet. Expat David Kitchen even flew in from South Africa and spent two weeks in a quarantine hotel to be there. Saturdays forecast of a south-easterly breeze of 7 knots proved accurate with Rodney Cobb the early leader in the first race. However, Open entry, Jim Downer rounded first, with Kristian Sjöberg close behind. The downwind legs proved a tactical challenge. Downer won from John Greenwood and Sjöberg. Race two offered more of the same with Downer again showing the way, from Simon Percival and Lawrence Crispin. With the light south-westerly beginning to falter, the final race of the day was quickly started, with both Downer and Sjöberg caught out by the one-minute rule. The breeze was now very patchy and it was Greenwood who crept over the line first, ahead of two Legends, Cobb and Richard Hart. Ever the gentleman, Richard commented, ‘I was up and down in the race, but just lucky to be in third when it was stopped.’ The forecast for Sunday put a couple of legends off, but once out over the bumpy bar, the seas flattened off and wind dropped to a more comfortable 12-15 knots. Beating against the tide,
Polish Masters The 2021 Polish Masters Championships took place on the Zegrze lake from 13-15 August. There were 13 entries. Marek Jarocki won a very close regatta ahead of Piotr Pajor and Jacek Binkowski. Jarocki won three races in the nine race series, while Pajor didn’t win any and Binkowski just two. Other race wins went
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Greenwood took the left hand side off the pin end and taking the gun from Crispin followed by Allen Burrell. With the wind gradually reducing through the cloudy afternoon, race 5 was swiftly begun as the wind flicked left. On the second upwind, Martin Hughes struck out boldly into the full tide out to sea, and was rewarded with a 15° shift, that took him from around sixth to first around the windward mark, a position he held from Al Burrell and Sjöberg. The final race brought heavy rain showers that suppressed the breeze further at times and created frustrating holes around the finish line. Downer again took the gun from Hughes and Sjöberg, but Greenwood had done enough to take the title. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
GBR 5 FIN 201 GBR 74 GBR 49 GBR 33 GBR 2 GBR 90 GBR 13 GBR 635 GBR 567
John Greenwood (GGM) Kristian Sjoberg (GM) Lawrence Crispin (GM) James Downer (O) Kieron Holt (M) Allen Burrell (GM) Richard Sharp (GM) Roman Khodykin (M) Simon Percival (M) Martin Hughes (GGM)
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to Artur Siwik, Juliusz Reichelt (2) and Błażej Wyszkowski. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
POL 100 POL 23 POL 21 POL 70 POL 38 POL 83 POL 27 POL 85 POL 115 POL 127
Marek Jarocki Piotr Pajor Jacek Bińkowski Artur Siwik Juliusz Reichelt Błażej Wyszkowski Piotr Rosiński Wojciech Nadolski Lucjan Bladowski Jan Kominek
FINN MASTERS MAGAZINE & YEARBOOK 2022
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Swedish Masters The Swedish Masters Championship took place in Karlstad on 18-19 September, as part of the Sola Cup, the final Swedish Cup event of the year. It had fewer participants than usual, with 12 sailors at the start, including three non-Masters. Race wins went to Daniel Miles (3), Stefan Nordström (1), Erik Åberg (S) and Pär Friberg. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
SWE 15 SWE 14 SWE 91 SWE 2 SWE 21 SWE 16 SWE 99 SWE 688 SWE 111
Daniel Miles GGM Stefan Nordström GM Pär Friberg GGM Svante Colvin GGM Mats R Karlsson GGM Henrik Rydell GM David Berg M Håkan Stööd GGM Torsten Jarnstam L
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Dutch Masters Dutch ONK/Masters Combined with the Dutch Nationals the 2021 Dutch Masters was sailed at KNZ&RV Muiden instead of the usual Medemblik. With 60 participants it was the biggest fleet in years, and although the wind forecast for Saturday was poor three good races were sailed. After day 1 only Eric Bakker and Peter Peet were leading with Bas de Waal in third place. After some nice beers and excellent food at the club Sunday brought Prosecco conditions, with average 8 to 14 knots and partly clouded skies with very close racing. Ten metres difference on the finish
