Video from Pokerrun 2006 in Aaland, Finland

KajLehtinen

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I stumbled upon a video from the annual Pokerrun even in Åland, Finland from this summer. I was there, but only watched the pokerrun from ashore ....

Anyway the video is here.

Pokerrun2006 Aaland - 88 Mb.

This is for you powerboat lovers ... The video starts up in the capital of Stockholm and then they takeoff towards Mariehamn, which is about 80 nm away. They had marchingorders on about 35 knots so that all the boats could tag along. I think they were about 40 boats that went from Stockholm, and more boats joined in at Mariehamn for the actual pokerrun event.

/Kaj
 
Cool video, Kaj. Out of interest, what does marine petrol and diesel cost in Sweden? How is the motorboating scene in Sweden? How long does your season last?
 
Colored diesel (aka RED) costs between 8-12 SEK, depending on if you have a tax exempt (comercial user) or not, normal road diesel (white/colorless) costs about 13 SEK in the beginning of the summer. Petrol I dont really know, but its about 12-13 also i guess.

My guess is that its about 0.58-0.88 for RED diesel (its illigal to use RED if you dont have the tax exemption) and for normal diesel its about 0.95 pund Sterling.

The homepage for the Pokerrun event itself is at http://www.pokerrunsaland.com/

The season usually starts beginning of May, lets say last week of april to middle of may and lasts to middle of september, ofcourse the boat doesnt come out of the water until end of september or middle of october. The baltic is usually icefree until end of december, but insurancecompanies doesnt like that the boat is in the water after end of october, so the insurance rate goes up after that.

The motorboating scene is good here, despite high fuelcosts - but not as much big boats as in the UK. Average boat here is about 25-30 ish feet long.

/Kaj
 
That's brilliant Kaj - and thanks for posting it. I collect powerboat videos such as this and I hope you don't mind me adding it to my collection.

The scenery was fantastic and I had to smile as you guys went steaming past that large ferry /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Early on in the video was there a fairly large Windy being filmed?

A couple of observations...
1) Your command of English is somewhat better than my command of Swedish /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

2) The video was well edited - something nice to watch to lift my depressed spirits in the closed season!
 
Kaj, interesting comparison with UK because we currently have a big debate over whether leisure (ie non commercial) boaters can continue to use red diesel. If not then UK boaters will have to use white diesel priced at a similar level to yours. Has the cost of white diesel affected how people go boating in Sweden?
 
Hi!

Well I dont mind, but I didnt have anything to do with the production, I'm just a boatowner who was in Aaland to look at the pokerrun and now stumbled across the video, so that said, the video itself comes from www.northoffshore.com, and if you save it locally I'm sure they cant say anything about it, but if you want to post it online without the URL please do ask the guys behind northoffshore for permissions first.

Cant say that I saw any Windy in the video; i just rewatched it upto arrival in Mariehamn, and the only boat that I saw close was the one immidietly in the beginning, which I assume was a Bayliner Trophy or similar - The large ferry is one of two companies that traffic Stockholm - Aaland - Abo, the ilands of Aaland is a taxfree zone in EU :-) So all the ferry going between Stockholm & Finland & Estonia makes a 15 min stop at the taxfree zone so that they can sell cheap boze & smokes.

Yeah, I think the video is excellent edited, but to bad the cameraboat was a powerboat too, should have been a bigger one, more stable. But I guess there will be cool stillpictures of the event showing up in the mags in Sweden and Finland, from last years event they had a stunning picture of some 45 footer completly in the air with all crew smiling & waving at the camera man when they flew by :-)

/Kaj
 
The fuelprize has been high for several years, but I do remember about 4 years ago when I had another boat that had tax exemption and the price of diesel was 4 SEK (0.29) - That was the first year that I had a faster going boat (Bayliner 3485, made 33 knots with twin 270 hp merc diesels) and we clocked about 300 hours that summer. This year with the 365 I've clocked about 60 hours sofar, and I guess I will make another 10-20 hours before its layup time for the winter.

So yes, it obviusly seems to have influenced boating (atleast for me), but the swedish current socialist goverment sees it as a good tax revenue and cant wait until they can introduce tax on owning the boat also (they are planning on that), lets HOPE they are ousted and next weeks elections over here .... And if not, then it might be even more impact on boating when the new taxes are pushed through.

BUT a lot of people owning boats larger than 12*4 meters has them in companies so that they can official run charter with them etc, and that makes it a bit cheaper to operate (VAT gone, if your lucky fueltax removed etc). I guess its the same as your part1 registration (if I understood that correctly).

/Kaj
 
New & more videos has started to come online from last summers Pokerrun. This is large files, around 100 Mb and they are released every friday for a couple of more fridays. I got nothing to do with the makers of the videos more than that I was present in Åland watching the pokerrun and enjoy watching the videos!

URL to the download point is http://skunk.cowmob.com/~dahla/poker/

Each part is the linked stuff thats shown on the page.

/Kaj
 
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