505 Finnish national championship

12-13.8.2000 in Lahti

The Finnish national championships were held this year in lake conditions in Lahti. Eleven boats were registered of which 10 showed up. The 470 and Laser classes had also their nationals in the same regatta. We were happy to show 10 boats at the starting line compared to the 470s with only 6 boats. This was probably the first time in near history to have more boats in the 505 nationals than the 470.

A lot has happened during the past year. A lot of "sleeping" boats have now new owners and more people are interested in buying a 505. It is very nice to get new faces to the class and the near future for the class looks very promising.

Four races were scheduled, two on Saturday and two on Sunday. Due to lack of wind only one race was sailed on Saturday, but luckily we managed to sail three races on Sunday. All races were sailed in light to moderate conditions.

Final results:

1.	FIN-7784	Held / Laiho	6,1,2,1	(4p)
2.	FIN-8053	Ebeling / Suonpää	3,2,1,3	(6p)
3.	FIN-7922	Björklund / Nyman	1,3,4,4	(8p)
7.	FIN 7885	Mäkelä / Lahti	2,7,6,2	(10p)
6.	FIN 7824	Ikonen / Nurmela	4,6,3,5	(12p)
5.	FIN 7657	Martonen / Pundars	7,5,5,7	(17p)
8.	FIN 8056	Raita / Raita	5,8,7,6	(18p)
4.	FIN 8136	Tikka / Dillemuth	9,4,8,OCS	(21p)
9.	FIN 7581	Nylund / Ekman	8,9,9,8	(25p)
10.	FIN 8180	Parviainen / Parviainen	10,DNS,DNS,DNS	(30p)

Regards,

Mike Laiho

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