Gamlakarleby Segelförening

Gamlakarleby Segelförening (GSF for short), is a yacht club in Kokkola, Finland.

Gamlakarleby Segelförening
Emblem
Burgee for motorboats
Short nameGSF
Founded1872
LocationKokkola, Western Finland Province (Central Ostrobothnia)
Websitehttp://www.mustakari.fi

GSF was established on 27 February 1872, becoming Finland's 4th oldest yacht club after BSF in Pori (1856), NJK in Helsinki (1861) and ASS in Turku.[1]

The club hosted the 1975 Snipe World Junior Championship,[2] which was won by GSF's sailors Heikki Haimakainen and Timo Karlsson,[3] and the 1992 European Championship.[4]

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