Gamlakarleby Segelförening

Gamlakarleby Segelförening

Emblem

Burgee for motorboats

Short name GSF
Founded 1872
Location Kokkola, Western Finland Province (Central Ostrobothnia)
Website http://www.mustakari.fi

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

BSF 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]

References

  1. GSF History.
  2. A Brief History of Snipe in Finland
  3. Most successful Finnish Snipe sailors and clubs
  4. Snipe Bulletin November 1992

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