main page | actualities | races | programs | rankings | documents | flea market | forum | media gallery | links | newsletter | contact |  Feb 6, 2005 - Technology John Bertrand on Boat Speed We have discovered on the Finn that outhaul tension is critical to pointing ability. I first observed it when my friend Thomas Jungblut and I were testing some new Finn sails in Milwaukee. Feb 6, 2005 - Technology "Psychology" by Paul Elvstrom You must take great pains to keep clear and calm during racing. Psychological upsets can cause you great trouble and may make you do stupid things which you know you ought not to have done. Feb 6, 2005 - Technology What Makes this Slow Boat So Fast? May I ask you to be patient whilst I attempt to explain that what is puzzling in practise is explicable in theory. First to dispose of the less important contributory factors. Most Finns are sailed by Olympic aspirants and are, accordingly, well sailed. Their helmsmen are fairly heavy, fairly fit and anxious to do as well as possible. Feb 6, 2005 - Technology "So You Want To Start Sailing The Finn?" by Philippe Rogge It is good to see so many new sailors joining our class every year. Some of them make it to the top of their potential fairly quickly - while for others it takes a little longer to get right. Having been around for a while one quite easily picks out the good Finn campaigns from the bad. So, what do you do if you want to start sailing the Finn seriously? Feb 6, 2005 - Technology Paul Elvstrom on Singlehanded Sailing Sailors in the San Francisco Bay area had a chance to listen to the best sailor of them all when Paul Elvstrom visited St. Francis YC for a weekend seminar on singlehanded sailing. I'd like to pass on some of the comments Paul made in his lectures that weekend. 1 | 2 > | >> sponsored by BUILT AND POWERED BY IXPERT Hungarian Finn Class Assocation © All right reserved.