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29-10-2020, 01:05
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Finland
Boat: rock20, 24ft
Posts: 19
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hello from Finland
new here so here we start
Finnish family of 4, we are learning to sail in Finnish lake called Keitele. Keitele located in middle of Finland and can travel 130nm from north to south by beeline. I believe its second biggest lake route in Finland, Saimaa is bigger. Through Saimaa there is a passage to the ocean through canals.
Sailing experience is 2 seasons, 2019 and 2020. Some of you might know that our lakes freezes in winter. I own 1974 build Rock20 sailboat called Aventura, its 24ft and good boat to learn with family.
Dreams is to liveaboard in sailboat exploring mother earth, dream destination is Indian ocean and east cost of Australia. It is a long way to liveaboard, but man can dream. (hoping that wife will do)
Started a you tubers "career" to have some incomes someday, hopefully.
looking forward to find information in this forum that i need for destinations and lifestyle.
thanks mika
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29-10-2020, 01:14
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
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Re: hello from Finland
Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Mika.
My home, Thunder Bay, Ontario, boasts of having the largest Finnish population (± 14,510 people of Finnish descent) outside of Fennoscandia.
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29-10-2020, 01:17
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Finland
Boat: rock20, 24ft
Posts: 19
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Re: hello from Finland
Thanks GordMay
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29-10-2020, 03:52
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Finland
Boat: rock20, 24ft
Posts: 19
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Re: hello from Finland
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Originally Posted by landcrabinsailb
Thanks GordMay
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we Fins are spreaded quite large areas after ww2 when it was very poor and earlier than that too.
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29-10-2020, 05:07
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Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Minnesota, USA
Boat: 21' trailer sailor & 8' sailing dinghy
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Re: hello from Finland
Hello,
We have Suomi influence here in Minnesota too. One of my kids studied in Finland. The lake Keitele looks beautiful.
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29-10-2020, 05:21
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Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Med
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Posts: 690
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Re: hello from Finland
Welcome!
And it certainly looks inviting, taking a dip in Lake Keitele via that ladder. And what happens on New Year's Day? Is it a case of making a hole in the ice and using pictured ladder to make the rather less inviting descent into water near freezing point? To celebrate the new year or to simply get over the Finlandia?
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29-10-2020, 05:30
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Finland
Boat: rock20, 24ft
Posts: 19
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Re: hello from Finland
I have heard that Minnesota is a lot like Finland, natural point of view. Where did you kid studied? Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Jyväskylä are common places to study, university city's.
Lake Keitele is very rugged for a Finnish lake, shores are rocky which gives plenty of opportunity to find natural harbor to anchor.
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Originally Posted by Spot
Hello,
We have Suomi influence here in Minnesota too. One of my kids studied in Finland. The lake Keitele looks beautiful.
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29-10-2020, 05:42
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Finland
Boat: rock20, 24ft
Posts: 19
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Re: hello from Finland
thanks
swimming in Finland at New Years day is more or less making a hole on ice, maybe some parts of southern Finland sea is not frozen. depending of weather but it will be during winter too.
My swimming in could water would involve dry suit
Now days my new year celebration contains more family obligations that geting over the Finlandia if i understand your reference correctly
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Originally Posted by HeinSdL
Welcome!
And it certainly looks inviting, taking a dip in Lake Keitele via that ladder. And what happens on New Year's Day? Is it a case of making a hole in the ice and using pictured ladder to make the rather less inviting descent into water near freezing point? To celebrate the new year or to simply get over the Finlandia?
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30-10-2020, 08:14
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Minnesota, USA
Boat: 21' trailer sailor & 8' sailing dinghy
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Re: hello from Finland
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Originally Posted by landcrabinsailb
I have heard that Minnesota is a lot like Finland, natural point of view. Where did you kid studied? Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Jyväskylä are common places to study, university city's.
Lake Keitele is very rugged for a Finnish lake, shores are rocky which gives plenty of opportunity to find natural harbor to anchor.
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The kid studied in Turku. I am from a place with rocky shores so that all sounds very nice.
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03-11-2020, 05:35
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Finland
Boat: rock20, 24ft
Posts: 19
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Re: hello from Finland
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Originally Posted by Spot
The kid studied in Turku. I am from a place with rocky shores so that all sounds very nice.
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Turku is a nice place for sailing as well. One off the best cruising grounds in Finland.
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03-11-2020, 05:42
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Channel Islands, CA
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Re: hello from Finland
Welcome aboard landcrabinsailb!
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03-11-2020, 11:16
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Finland
Boat: rock20, 24ft
Posts: 19
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Re: hello from Finland
Thanks
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Originally Posted by Don C L
Welcome aboard landcrabinsailb!
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28-10-2021, 18:18
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Join Date: Sep 2021
Posts: 48
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Re: hello from Finland
Terveisiä Australiasta Mika,
I am a Finn and was born not that far from Keitele.
I actually learned how to sail on ice first when I was about 12 years.
Me and my two brothers made DIY ice yacht.
It had two meter long skates from Esla kick sled, a rectangular platform just about 15 cm from ice and two A-frames on both ends of platform joined by a tube.
Abobe that we has home made sail.
Steering was done by shifting either to the back or to the front depending where you wanted to go. We easily did close to 100km/h on gusts. Good fun until it snowed and ice was covered.
Later I sailed around Helsinki and Åland Islands.
Now I have lived half of my life in Austrlia and New Zealand as a crew.
Last year, I bought my first sailing boat, as my profile name sayx, it is 51 years old catamaran. It was the cheapest cat available and needed repairs. Nothing too difficult for a Finnish guy who has handyman skills and lots of SISU.
But it is just a coastal cruiser so not sailing this one to Finland[emoji2]
Morjens,
Heikki
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28-10-2021, 18:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Fiji Airways/ Lake Ontario
Boat: Legend 37.5, 1968 Alcort Sunfish, Avon 310
Posts: 2,749
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Re: hello from Finland
I feel Finnish, as our boat was hauled out today, awaiting the end of ice six months from now. Glad the Finns are friends, talvisota demonstrated they’re tough people!
Welcome and enjoy talking about sailing.
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29-10-2021, 02:32
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
Posts: 49,139
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Re: hello from Finland
Hyvää huomenta. Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Stellar.
My home, Thunder Bay, Ontario has an honorary Finnish consul, Pasi Pinta.
I’d be remiss, if I didn’t mention our famous Hoito restaurant [Canada’s oldest co-op’ restaurant?], at the former Finnish Labour Temple.
Lakehead University, even has a Finnish Studies program.
➥ https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-ne...ssador-4551806
➥ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thund...ning-1.6216270
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