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The World's Finest Rowing Boats
| In this exciting travel adventure documentary Harold Aune and Marie Hutchinson enter Raid Finland in a classic Whitehall Spirit 17 sailing rowboat.
Together with Chris Nohr, Wim Kotze and the indefatigable Hampus they participate in and capture on film a fleet of 21 small open boats and 72 sailors from 14 countries having fun while rowing sailing and racing through Finland’s beautiful south-western archipelago.
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Excerpt From the Whitehall at RAID Finland story;
It was a blast racing through Finland's southwest archipelago under oar
power and sail with twenty-one boats all under 22 feet long with crews
hailing from all over the world. The boats themselves were as varied as
their crews but all were classics of one design or another. The German
and Dutch sailors seemed to favor beautiful wooden Norwegian Fearings
while the Hawaiians sailed a Shetland Islands Yole, one of two in the
Raid. There were two Whitehall Spirits. The " Victoria" a 14' sailing
model, sailed by the French team, Bertrand and Anne Chazarene was also
the smallest boat in the fleet. The other was our Canadian team entry,
a Whitehall Spirit 17 Expedition model.
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