wk47: Update 17Nov 2025

We are sad to notice that the conditions have not developed according to the expectations. The temperatures has been clearly above the forecasts. Ice has not built as expected. The predicted wind velocity for the possible race area is very light.

The Organizing Committee will collect as much data as possible and inform officially later today if we continue the organizing activities or cancel the event.


We are happy to announce that the NoR docs are published and registration open for:

Nov 21 Johnny Köhler Cup 2025

Nov 22-23 The return of the Saints: Holy Runners

WELCOME!

Holy Runners will be one of the two extra ranking regattas allowed by our national ranking rule.

Yhteistyö Nokian Panimon kanssa jatkuu

DN -liiton ja Nokian Panimon yhteistyö jatkuu. Purjehdimme edelleen Keisari -rankingsarjaa ja sarjan johtaja kantaa arvonimeä DN Keisari.

Kauden ensimmäinen Keisari Ranking -osakilpailu on All Saints Regatta 15.-16.11. Edeltävänä perjantaina 14.11. purjehditaan kauden avaava Johnny Köhler Cup joka ei ole osa rankingsarjaa. Kilpailukutsut on julkaistu ja ilmoittautuminen auki.

Kausi on avattu!

Jääpurjehduskausi avattiin pitämällä Suomen DN Jääpursiliitto ry:n vuosikokous. Kokouksessa mm. vahvistettiin tulevan kauden tapahtumakalenteri ja nimettiin liitolle hallitus.

Kilpailukalenteri

Week46 alkuun on aikaa 6 viikkoa! Vielä ehtii laittaa kamat kuntoon tai vaikka hankkimaan sen puuttuvan kilpurin ja tulla mukaan!

Lajista kiinnostuneet voi ottaa yhteyttä dnfinland at icesailing.fi

Week46 Event Complete

Legendary Week 46 gathered ice sailors from all over Europe to Onkamojärvi, Salla, Finland for the very first icesailing event of the season globally. In total 30 dn sailors and two ice optimist sailors plus 3 organizers enjoyed the spectacular scenery. We had participants from Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Sweden and Finland. Some sailors arrived already on Wednesday morning and managed to sail 4 awesome days.

Johnny Köhler Cup was sailed on Friday with 4 conducted races on almost perfect 15cm black ice. All Saint’s Regatta was scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. However slow ice combined with very light winds did not give us an opportunity to sail on Sunday. On Saturday we did 6 races in rather wet conditions. Wednesday and Thursday were tune up and practice sailing all day – which is not very long at these latitudes… Nice thing was that our sailing days included almost all the different conditions with speeds exceeding 100km/h on Thursday and slower speeds during the weekend. We are sure that all the competitors also got to see more than enough reindeers wandering on the streets!

All Saints Regatta is part of Keisari Ranking. Keisari Ranking is supported by Nokian Panimo – a brewery that owns the beer brand Keisari.

We want to thank Onkamon Metsästysseura (the local hunting club) for letting us use the landing site facilities. Also big thanks for Jenni @Sallainen for all the hospitality and flexibility related to the accommodation arrangements.

Itsenäisyysregatta is in three weeks 7-8.12 and we hope we can get as big fleet as possible. We warmly welcome all our international guests to join. On Friday 6.12 is Finlands’ independence day so that is a holiday in Finland. Therefore Friday might gather a lot of sailors for practice and tune up. Whatsapp groups will be established for the registered sailors. Itsenäisyysregatta NoR and registration.

Johnny Köhler Cup results.

All Saints Regatta results.

Greetings from DN Finland regarding DN European Championship 25 22.2-1.3.2025

Hi!
Snow has barely touched the ground but we’re already looking at DN European Championship 2025 ❄️

Preparations are under way in co-operation with IDNIYRA and DN Finland.

At the moment, we’re looking for sponsors. Every connection and hints are much appreciated.

Anyways, the whole point of this post is that we’re saying that DNEC25 will take place 22.2-1.3.2025 🤩

If you have any matters regarding DNEC25

please contact us at:
dnec25.oc@icesailing.fi

See you at Week46!

Finnish Nationals regatta completed

All time record: 61 sailors with 11 nationalities participated the Finnish Nationals during the weekend. Tricky conditions, but the same for all. Fair and good racing! Huge thanks to all participants, volunteer race officers, our hosts at Kristalliranta and the organizers.

Overall: Winner P36 Karol Jablonski, 2nd C45 Mihkel Kosk, 3rd C20 Rasmus Maalinn.

Finnish Championship medals were handed to the three best Finnish sailors as follows: Gold L601 Johnny Winquist, Silver L137 Teemu Rantanen, Bronze L112 Reko Suojanen

Result GOLD Fleet and SILVER Fleet

Overall results, Finnish Nationals 2024

photo credit/copyright: jussi@takaraja

GM & SM – Update 20Feb

The scouting teams are currently focusing the efforts to Säkylä and Hanko. Other locations are being followed in the background.

There have been already some sailors on ice at Hanko – reporting ice good for sailing. Sailors will be on ice at Säkylä latest Thursday – but according to the local contacts the ice appears good there as well.

The organizing committees will keep on following the weather forecasts and conditions very closely. It is rather warm week ahead of us.

Grand Masters Cup 24 Feb 27-29

Finnish Nationals 24, Mar 2-3

Find notice of race and registration for both at manage2sail

Please note the easy option for those who want to travel light: Some DN’s are made available for lease for Grand Masters Cup. Contact GMadmin(at)icesailing.fi for inventories and contact details for the owners.