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	Finn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Finn is the name of the giant who, according to folk mythology, built the cathedral in Lund.
		Finn (dinghy), an Olympic class of sailing dinghy.
		Finn may be a variant of fin, a colloquial term for the U.S. five dollar bill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finn (263 words)

	finn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fionn mac Cumhail (Finn mac Cumhail) was a legendary warrior of Irish mythology.
		Finn son of Folcwald is a Frisian lord mentioned in Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg.
		a Finn is an Olympic class of sailing dinghy.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /finn.html (236 words)

	Sailing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Finn, Europe, Laser, 49er and 470 classes are dinghies, characterised by a lifting centreboard and have either a single sail (una) rig, for the Finn, Europe and Laser or two sail (sloop) rig for the 470 class.
		Dinghies are steered by a rudder and the crew use their body weight as leverage to counterbalance forces developed by the rig.
		The different class of boats require sailors of differing physique for optimum performance, for example the Finn class is likely to have tall, heavy men competing, whilst the 470 sailors tend to be lighter.
	www.olympics.org.uk /sports/summer/sailing.asp (455 words)

	Encyclopedia: Finn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Finn, son of Folcwald, was a legendary Frisian lord.
		Brian Timothy Finn (born June 25, 1952) is a singer and songwriter and one of New Zealands foremost musicians.
		2 GP14s, a Topper and a Graduate Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using (1) the sails and (2) underwater foils (centreboard and rudder).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Finn (627 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A one-man centerboard dinghy, the Finn requires tremendous physical exertion and mental concentration.
		Finn sailors are strong, fit and tolerant of long periods of concentration and physical exertion.
		Sailing the Finn is perhaps the purest athletic experience in world class sailing today, equalled perhaps only by the windsurfer.
	www2.bc.edu /~reidal/finn.htm (260 words)

	Sailing History
		Because the 115-square-foot sail is fully adjustable with its shape bearing directly on performance and boat speed, the Finn is extremely responsive and mastery of the craft is rarely fully achieved.
		Finn sailors may have sailed the craft for years, yet find some small nuance of tactics, weight or other adjustment yielding a greater result and luring them to a lifelong love of the boat.
		Finn sailors train hard for competition and are known as well-rounded athletes with proven general sailing skills.
	www.boatingchannel.com /Boating_Sports/Sailing/Sailing_History/sailing_history.html (1883 words)

	Gunter Dinghy
		A dinghy is either a small utility boat used to tend a larger boat, or it is a...
		sailing rig for a dinghy is a "gunter or sprit sail".
		The Dinghy is of Plywood construction, 4'8" beam, 11' length, Gunter Rig, pivoted centreboard.
	www.fishing-boat-resources.com /fishing-boats-11/gunter-dinghy.html (800 words)

	Small sailboat pictures - a personal selection of 1999 photos.
		This photo was taken during a Dinghy Cruising Association rally at Kirby Creek, on the Walton Backwaters, Essex.
		She has many good characteristics which make her desirable as a crusing dinghy.
		The easily handled yawl rig means there is no hauling in of sheets which a foresail requires.
	www.smallsailboats.co.uk /dinghy/dinghy_files/photos99.htm (428 words)

	boats.com - Feature: Sailboat Classes at the Olympics
		The Europe dinghy was chosen as the boat for the new women's single-handed discipline by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) in November 1988.
		The Finn dinghy first competed in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki as the men's single-handed discipline.
		Selected by the ISAF at the Performance Dinghy Trials at Lake Garda in 1996, the 49er is a modern skiff design with an asymmetrical spinnaker.
	www.boats.com /content/default_detail.jsp?contentid=10607 (630 words)

	ireland.com / Today / Sport / Olympics 2004
		2) Dinghy - Finn, Europe, Laser, 49er and 470 classes are dinghies, characterised by a lifting centreboard and have either a single sail (una) rig, for the Finn, Europe and Laser; or two-sail (sloop) rig for the 470 class.
		At the Olympic Games, the Finn is used only in men's events and the Europe only in women's events.
		For example the Finn class is likely to have tall, heavy men competing - while the 470 sailors tend to be lighter.
	www.ireland.com /sports/olympics2004/olympic_sports/sailing.htm (849 words)

	Olympic Preview - Single-handed Dinghy Men - Finn
		The Finn fleet, as well as being full of veteran campaigners who will be looking to push their ability to the limits in the difficult Athens conditions, includes a number of athletes making their Olympic debut in Athens.
		Since his migration from the Single-handed Dinghy Open after winning the Gold Medal in Sydney, Great Britain’s Ben AINSLIE jumped into the shoes of long time friend and team mate Iain PERCY, who has himself moved into the Star Class.
		With performances that go in peaks and troughs, Godefroid looks to be on the way up and the potential for inconsistent conditions in Athens could well be to his liking.
	www.yachting.org.au /?Page=11881 (962 words)

	Sailing Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The proportion is higher in the monohull dinghies, especially the double-handers, than in the Tornado or keelboats where the average age is notably more "pre-Optimist".
		Among these dinghies it is notable that while most Finn sailors did start in the Optimist relatively few had the chance to sail internationally before becoming too big for the boat.
		The US Finn Foundation has started running Finn Clinics where we import a foreign sailor who is successful at the world level and their job is to give as much information as possible to help the overall group improve their skill set.
	www.sailingsource.com /scuttlebutt/1660.php (2709 words)

	Finn Event Specifics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sailing the Finn is perhaps the purest athletic experience in world class sailing today, equaled perhaps only by the windsurfer.
		The Finn remains the oldest continuous class in Olympic sailing.
		The remaining five countries will be determined at the final qualifying event: Finn European Championship, scheduled for May 7-15, 2004 in France.
	www.ussailing.org /olympics/OlympicGames/2004/Finn/Logistics.asp (324 words)

	Finn (dinghy) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Finn (dinghy) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Finn dinghy is a single-handed (additional info and facts about Olympic) Olympic class of (additional info and facts about sailing dinghy) sailing dinghy.
		As at 2005, the Finn has been an Olympic class continuously since the (additional info and facts about 1952 Summer Olympics) 1952 Summer Olympics.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fi/Finn_(dinghy).htm (65 words)

	Nieuwe pagina 0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		My brother Harm, wanted to buy a "project" for some years until he ran into an old Finn dinghy last Autumn.
		A cold moulded Finn dinghy which was build back in 1961 !
		We had a look at the boat on a dark and cloudy autumn day and with the last glimp of daylight decided to buy the boat.
	home.wanadoo.nl /maarten.adriaans/Finn.htm (177 words)

	Finn In Museum - Around The World Of Sailing
		At 4.5 metres long and 140kg in weight, the Finn is the biggest, heaviest and most demanding of all the single-handed boats, which is why Ben had to put on 20kg of muscle after leaving his Gold Medal-winning Laser after Sydney.
		To sail the Finn demands massive body strength, great tactical ability and an understanding of where the wind is and how your boat will answer to it.
		Ben’s Finn will be on display at the Maritime Museum until the start of the summer.
	www.torresen.com /sailing/content_archives/002813.php (384 words)

	Olympic Classes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Finn, 470, Star and Tornado are all long-time Olympic class boats.
		Designed in Belgium in 1960 by Alois Roland, the Europe is often called the small Finn because of the two boats' similarity of design, both one-man centerboards with many controls.
		The Finn class representative to the Olympic Sailing Committe is Bryan Boyd
	www.ussailing.org /olympics/classes.htm (2773 words)

	Olympic Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The smallest of the boat taking part in the Olympics, with a length of just 3.35 metres (11ft) and a crew of one.
		Finn boat made their competition debut in 1949.
		Finn was first included in the competition programme of the Olympic Games in 1952, in Helsinki.
	www.athens2004.com /en/OlympicEvents (473 words)

	sailpower.com
		And with his great love of Finn sailing, I was even less surprised to see a Finn dinghy on the ramp ready for launching.
		He is a dinghy sailing legend and one who has, as well as a few tales to tell, some interesting ideas.
		The Trapez dinghy you designed was probably the first singlehanded trapeze dinghy in the world.
	www.ybw.com /sp/features/elvstrom (2631 words)

	SAILING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		And rolling around in a small Optimist dinghy during an afternoon was an effective lesson in handling a sailing boat.
		It was a pleasure to sail the Finn when the wind strength was reasonable, but I found it wiser to stay in port when it blew force 4 or more.
		The Finn was sold to Yrjö, who is not any relative of mine in spite of the same name, but sort of a 'country cousin' as we state it.
	www.qsl.net /oh2kxo/mjokine3.htm (8143 words)

	Canadian Yachting Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A single-seat, one-man centerboard dinghy, the Finn requires tremendous physical exertion and mental concentration.
		In 1963, French architect Andre Cornu designed the two-handed centerboard boat as a modern high performance fiberglass planing dinghy which could be sailed by anyone.
		The adjustment of the wing is fixed by crew weight to a formula which ensures that heavier crews do not have a greater advantage in heavy winds, or conversely, lighter crews do not have an advantage in lighter winds.
	www.sailing.ca /cst/classes.shtm (1926 words)

	Finn - Olympic Classes - Yachte.com.au
		The Finn is the Olympic Class men’s single-handed dinghy.
		The Finn was designed specifically as an Olympic Class men’s single-handed dinghy.
		The Finn has been the learning ground for many athletes who have gone on to be world champions in other classes.
	www.yachte.com.au /classes/finn.asp (92 words)

	Sailing Equipment
		It weighs 99 pounds and its 16'6" mast supports 76 square feet of sail.
		Finn sailors average more than 6' in height, and generally weight in a 175+ pounds.
		It is the oldest continuous class in Olympic sailing.
	www.boatingchannel.com /Boating_Sports/Sailing/Sailing_Equipment/sailing_equipment.html (383 words)

	Simply Sailing :: News
		Nocka sails in the international Finn dinghy class and cut his teeth sailing in and around Middle Harbour.
		The Finn class is the men's single-handed dinghy and is one of nine Olympic sailing classes.
		The Finn boat made its competition debut in 1949, but was not included as an Olympic class until the Games in Helsinki in 1952.
	www.simplysailing.com.au /news.htm (545 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| Gold Cup objective achieved
		There will be plenty of other events and championships this year, including the Finn Europeans, but none have the importance of the Olympic regatta.
		There is some poignancy to winning my third Finn world title in a row in Rio.
		The crash took with it the original Finn Gold Cup, so its replacement is special for several reasons.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2004/02/26/soains26.xml&sSheet=/sport/2004/02/26/ixothspt.html (524 words)

	SI.com - Athens set to match Sydney success - Monday August 2, 2004 9:20PM
		Englishman Ainslie, one of the world's best known sailors who burst on to the Olympic stage by winning silver in Atlanta in 1996 as a teenager, has since switched to the heavier Finn dinghy, in which he has won the world title three times and he will start as hot favourite for gold.
		Ainslie's switch to Finn is good news for seven-times Laser world champion Scheidt, who has Australia's Michael Blackburn as his chief rival for gold.
		Jenny Armstrong and Belinda Stowell defend their 470 (double-handed dinghy) women's title from Sydney while Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page, ranked first in the world, will be hard to beat in the men's 470.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/olympics/2004/08/02/bc.olympics.sailing (598 words)

	Boating OZ Olympic Sailing - Finn
		The Finn was designed in 1949 by Richard Sarby.
		First introduced in 1952 as the singlehanded dinghy sailed by men only, the Finn remains the oldest continuous class in Olympic sailing.
		The ISAF Ranking is an indication only of a competitors performance as only a selected number of events are included.
	www.boatingoz.com.au /news2000fin.htm (121 words)

	BOAT BOOKS - Sailboat, Dinghy and Yacht Racing Page One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The author is a happy combination of National Finn class sailing champion in his native Poland, and experimental engineer.
		From wind tunnel tests that he has conducted the author describes the effects on performance of factors including wind speed, sail area, sail shape, sail setting, presence of the hull, angle of heel, wind gradient and steadiness of the wind.
		The Finn dinghy is one of the best known, high-performance Olympic yacht racing machines.
	www.boatbooks.co.nz /sailrace.html (1448 words)

	Australia's world class sailors enter the water today - Athens Olympics 2004 - ABC Sport.
		Eight races are scheduled for the opening day, two each in the men and women's 470, Finn and Yngling classes.
		Briton Ben Ainslie won gold in the Laser class in Sydney but has since successfully switched to the heavier Finn dinghy, winning the world title for three successive years.
		Briton Shirley Robertson, a three-time Olympian and Sydney gold medallist in the Europe dinghy, has teamed up with Sarah Webb and Sarah Ayton but the Danish trio of Dorte Jensen, Hellen Jespersen and Christine Borregarrd Otzen are top-ranked.
	www.abc.net.au /sport/content/200408/s1176485.htm (389 words)

	Finn Comfort Shoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fionn mac Cumhail (Finn mac Cumhail) was a legendary warriorof Irish mythology.
		Finn may be a variant of fin, a colloquial term for the U.S. five dollarbill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
		A shoe is a piece of footwear for humans, less than a boot and more than a slipper.
	www.referenceresearch.com /some/36444-finn-comfort-shoes.html (767 words)

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