The birth of the Scandinavian Gold Cup100 years • 12 March 1919 - 2019 March 12The Gold Cup was instituted 1919The first yacht clubs were born in Finland halfway through the 1800s, and sailboat racing was spread gradually to Finland and boats by Finnish and foreign known designers were built for homeland and foreign use mainly in Scandinavian yachting. But then the first world war interrupted the international yachting for several years.1917 Finland became independent and the young nation could
