Invitation Nordic Championship

SCIRA Finland welcomes all Nordic+ Snipe sailors to Open Nordics and Finnish Championship – Kotka, Finland August 8-10, 2025

Additional bonus is to participate Open Finnish Championship and last but not least, there will be a party to celebrate our Mr. Snipe Finland, Claus Clapa Carpelan’s 70-Years-Snipe-Sailing-career! He started his Snipe sailing already 1955 and is still going strong by being a constant participant in our regattas! 

Regatta will be sailed early August 8-10 in Kotka, located ca. 130 km east from Helsinki (Helsingfors). Easy to access by motorway

Travelling
The schedule has been planned so, that you are able to arrive by ferry to Helsinki or even to Turku (Åbo) by early Friday morning and still manage to get into the first two races on Friday. 
This applies also to return on Sunday evening from Helsinki. Good quality motorway to Kotka available since you are out from the city.   

NoR
Please find a link to Notice of Race: Snipe Class Finnish Championship / Snipe Class Nordic Championship manage2sail. 

Accommodation
You can find plenty of good choices e.g. from booking.comThe 10 best hotels & places to stay in Kotka, Finland – Kotka hotels, unfortunately there is no extra discounts available.

City of Kotka 
Kotka is having a rich history as a borderline city from the times of Russian Zsar and Swedish King from early 1800-1900 centuries.   

For Traveller | Kotkan kaupunki

Contact

For any questions pls contact our board: [email protected]. 
Please also inform about possible participants from your countries for our preparations. 

We are happy if you can share this information to all potential participants in your countries via website, FB, whatsapp… 

You are mostly welcome

Instead of travelling always to south, why not to choose this time one Nordic country. You will be surprised how nice the ferry trip through the archipelago is when arriving from Sweden. We know the challenges to travel to Finland oversees but please take this opportunity to explore the south-east part of the country.