Welcome to the British Finn Association…

This is the home of UK Finn sailing where you will find our 2025 race calendar, information on international regattas, training, tuning & technique advice, an active forum & marketplace plus all the info you need to start Finn sailing. See the latest membership benefits from our supporting Partners.

Britain has a rich heritage of success in the Finn at Olympic and World Championship levels, but the majority of the UK fleet is made up of Club and Masters sailors who enjoy racing Finns at all levels. There are great opportunities to race internationally at the Finn World Masters and the European Championships as well as the prestigious Gold Cup. All these events, together with the two main national events now count towards the Finn World Ranking, which has proved extremely popular with 1331 sailors from 40 countries competing.

The BFA 2024 Traveller Series has now concluded, congratulations to John Mackie, who attended nearly all 7 events. John took the trophy for the first time; he also won the Grand Master trophy.  John sailed in 6 of the seven events, only missing out on the Bosham Open. Howard Sellars took the Legend title; Martin Hughes was second overall, winning the Great Grand Master category, who, along with Roman Khodykin (Master) took their respective titles for the second consecutive year. All these trophy winners receive a grant of £100.00 as a contribution toward their entry to a Finn World or European Championships in 2025.

John Mackie wins the British Finn 2024 Travellers Series.

Cameron Tweedle takes the Rooster British Finn National Championships 2024 for a record third time in a row – a great achievement! The Hayling Island SC hosted event was necessarily reduced to four races due to the extreme conditions over the three-day championships. Watch the daily highlights from day two and day three here.

Congratulations to Howard Sellars for coming second in the Super Legends category at the recent Finn World Masters in Punta Ala, Italy placing 212th overall in the massive 285-boat fleet.

There were an impressive 3 UK sailors in the overall top ten; Nick Craig finished 7th, John Greenwood 8th, after getting one of two BFD’s rescinded and Lawrence Crispin in 10th. Allen Burrell was not far behind in 16th and Simon Percival in 58. Full results are here.

The Richard Blowman appeal – a huge thank you to all BFA members who have donated to the fund, we have now reached our goal and the boat has now been purchased for potential Finn sailors to try the boat and borrow for regattas. Please spread the word and invite any potential Finnsters at your club to have a sail in Finn-spiration – so far she has a 100% conversation rate. Any interested sailors should contact Mike DeCourcy in the first instance.

Sail on Richard...