Gamlakarleby Segelförening Explained

Clubname:Gamlakarleby Segelförening
Emblem:GSF emblem.png
Emblemcaption:Emblem
Burgee:Burgee of Gamlakarleby Segelförening burgee.SVG
Ensign:Ensign of Gamlakarleby Segelförening.SVG
Otheremblem:Burgee of Gamlakarleby Segelförening motorboats.svg
Otheremblemcaption:Burgee for motorboats
Short Name:GSF
Founded:1872
Location:Kokkola, Western Finland Province (Central Ostrobothnia)
Status:active
Website:http://www.mustakari.fi

Gamlakarleby Segelförening (abbreviation GSF) is a yacht club in Kokkola, Finland.

GSF was established on 27 February 1872, becoming Finland's 4th oldest yacht club after BSF in Pori (1856), NJK in Helsinki (1861) and ASS in Turku.[1]

The club hosted the 1975 Snipe World Junior Championship,[2] which was won by GSF's sailors Heikki Haimakainen and Timo Karlsson,[3] and the 1992 European Championship.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.mustakari.fi/foereningen-seura/historik-historiikki GSF History
  2. http://snipe.fi/fi/node/631 A Brief History of Snipe in Finland
  3. http://snipe.fi/en/node/632 Most successful Finnish Snipe sailors and clubs
  4. https://www.snipe.org/images/stories/EuropeanChampionship/1992%20Europeans.pdf Snipe Bulletin November 1992