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Rickard Sarby (1912-1977)
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Designer of the finn at 1949.
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4th at the Olympic Games 1948 (in Firefly).
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Olympic bronze in 1952
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Swedish Champion 1955.
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5th at the Olympic Games 1956.
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Swedish Finn Association chairman during the 50s.
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Before Rickard drew the Finn dinghy he was a successful canoe sailor and designer of a number of sailing canoes.
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Bengt Hornevall (1921-2007)
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Swedish Champion 1959.
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Swedish Finn Association chairman in the 60s.
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International Finn Association President 1961-62.
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Karlstad Canoe Association President (1955-1964) where he was driving and using Rickard Sarby, arranged so that history's second Finn Gold Cup was held in Karlstad, Sweden in 1957.
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Åke Sätre (1920-2010)
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Important work for Finn dinghy and Swedish dinghy sailing in general.
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Swedish Finn Association chairman in the 70s.
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Active in Sailing Federation's Board of Directors and in conjunction with the model for the Olympic trials in the 70's.
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The creator of the Low Point System used in nearly all races in the world.
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Boris "Boran" Jacobson (1937-2013)
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One of our major Swedish Finn Sailors.
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World Championship silver 1962-63 and European Championship gold 1962-63.
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Four times Swedish Champion.
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Represented Sweden in the Olympics in 1964 in Enoshima, Japan.
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After the active career was Boris active in the Swedish Sailing Association's working groups.
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Fredrik Lööf 1969
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Participated in the Olympics six times (1992-2012). Gold and bronze in Starboat (2012 resp. 2008), and bronze in the Finn in 2000.
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Fredrik succeeded with the huge effort to "get on the podium" for seven consecutive World Championships (1993-1999), of which gold 1994, 1997 and 1999.
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A number of World Cup and European Championship gold in Starboat.
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A number of medals at the European Championships and other international regattas.
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Considered by many to be one of Sweden's best sailors of all time.
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Torsten Jarnstam 1946
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Appointed Honorary Member in 2013, including for his work as an ambassador for Finn Sailing in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe.
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Best Swedish at the Swedish International Championships in Båstad, 1998.
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Chairman Swedish Finn Association in 1986-88, 2009-2013.
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Swedish Sailing Federation's honorary stingy 2012.
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Chairman dinghy sailors Karlstad (KKF) 1998-2002, appointed as honorary member in 2005 in Dinghy sailors Karlstad.
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From 2015 the editor of the Swedish Finn Association's website.
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Petter Ivarsson 1968
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Appointed Honorary in 2015
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Member of the Board 1992-1997 and was then also the editor of Swedish Finn News.
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Transferred the swedish finn-register to electronic form and integrated it later on the website.
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Created and developed continuously the website between 1997-2015.
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Mikael Brandt 1947
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Appointed Honorary in 2017
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Mikael Brandt är Sveriges mesta finnjolleseglare med över 50 år i klassen
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Mikael har seglat totalt 27 VM regattor. Brons (1989) och Guld (1990) i Finn World Masters
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Mikael blev svensk Mästare 1997 och 2009. Mikael har följt finnjolleklassens utveckling i
alla år sedan finnjollens födelse i Uppsala. Han har guidat nya seglare in i klassen på ett fördömligt sätt i generationer
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Utan överdrift är Mikael en ambassadör för Svensk finnjollesegling och tillika finnjolle-farfar
med hela seglarsverige.
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