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BALTIC CLASSIC CIRCUIT


First boat in Baltic Uffa Fox Challenge


This year’s Uffa Fox Challenge, set by the Scandinavian Classic Yacht Trust, the body behind the rapidly growing series of regattas and races in the Baltic, has attracted its first entry. Myrskylinto, a recently- restored Finnish shark boat (or ‘hajboat’) will race the 300 miles archipelago passage from Trosa, Sweden to the Finnish capital of Helsinki, manned by Finnish crew Vesa Humalisto, Petri Wilska and Mika Talvitie, from Espoo Sailing Club near Helsinki.


The race is open to all yachts whose sail area does not exceed 25sqm, and it is hoped that Folkboats, Dragons, 5-Ms, malarboats and 15 and 22sqm skerry cruisers will come forward. The race, in seven legs, running from 24 July till 15 August, and concurrently with part of this year’s Baltic Classic Circuit, will test archipelago navigation and night sailing – particularly as GPS is banned. “The


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race is a way to give attention to the smaller yachts in our sailing cultural heritage. The little ones run a bigger risk of neglect,” said regatta organiser Olle Appelberg. Last year’s first Uffa Fox Challenge, to sail the 1,000 miles from Cowes on the Isle of Wight to Trosa, Sweden, in the wake of a similar voyage undertaken by Uffa in 1930, was taken up by Luke Yeats and crew on the 22sqm yacht Vigilant. Their, and Uffa’s, stories was told in CB276 and 277.


Top: The shark boat Myrskylinto Above: Talisman, largest private classic sailing yacht in Sweden Left: The crew of the Myrskylinto


“The little ones run a bigger risk of neglect”


BIG YACHTS TO ATTEND As we went to press, we also learned that the owner of Galatea, a 72ft (22m) flush-decked yawl dating from 1899 and twice winner at Antigua Classics, is planning to sail across the Atlantic in order to attend all eight regattas of the Baltic circuit. It will be her first return to Sweden since her launch there in 1920. And Talisman, the largest privately-owned classic yacht in Sweden, is defecting from the Med, where she has been racing the last four years, to race in the Baltic series. She’s a 77ft (23.5m) steel Abeking and Rasmussen ketch restored in the early 2000s, and was 52nd in our list of top 200 boats (CB200).


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