37. European Championship 1992
Gdansk, Poland, June 6-14,
51 entries from 24 countries.

After two windy and wavy races, Glenn Bourke was going well with two first places but a knee injury put him out of the competition mid way through. The competition was then between Stuart Childerley, Oleg Khoperski and Dirk Lowe. Going into the last race, after the much lighter second half of the regatta, Khoperski lead Childerley by 1.3 points and Lowe was also in with a chance. But after a massive shift just after the start they were all out of it. Khoperski who had retired in the first race could not afford a bad result so struggled on to finish 23rd. This left Childerley as the winner and Lowe in second, enough to win him the German Olympic spot.

However, 2 boats ahead of Khoperski were disqualified so he jumped to 0.7 points ahead of Lowe to finish as runner up and cost Lowe the German place at the Olympics. Childerley was always consistent and was the rightful winner.Philippe Presti sailed a magnificent regatta to finish 4th after winning the last two races.

38. European Championship 1993
L'Estartit, Spain, June 3-12,
35 entries from 20 countries.

For the first time, the event was combined with the Junior European Championship, the juniors started 10 minutes after the Seniors. Stig Westergaard was the convincing winner in his new Devoti boat with a carbon fibre mast. After scoring 2,4,3,1,1,2 he did not have to sail the last race. Confusion reigned in the first race when the RC signalled a change in course direction. The top seven went to the wrong finish line while Bjorn and Stig Westergaard in 8th and 9th sailed to the correct finish line to take 1st and 2nd. Heiner, Presti, Devoti and van der Ploeg filed for average points. In what became known as Heiner's comedy hour, he put the mark boat's compass bearing board 60 m away outside the protest room. He then put his car with the headlights on behind it and convinced the Jury that the glare of the sun was why he hadn't been able to see the new bearing. He won the protest and the four were awarded average points!

39. European Championship 1994
Cesme, Turkey, July 5-13,
34 entries from 17 countries.

The '94 Europeans took place in the wonderfully warm and sunny waters of Ilica Bay, Cesme. With a NW breeze varying from 6 to 30 knots, a beautiful race course only 15 minutes outside the marina and no one else in the bay except turtles, dolphins and flying fish, this was the perfect location. And everyone loved it. The 1992 Olympic Champion was still looking to win his first Gold Cup or Europeans. He started well, had his worst race in race 5 with an 8th, then won the 6th and had the luxury of not having to sail the last race. Luca Devoti kept his cool like never before, won 3 races and came 2nd.

40. European Championship 1995
Lake Balaton, Hungary, September 10-16,
75 entries from 27 countries.

The expected weather on Lake Balaton was light winds and big shifts. After a good start to the regatta the wind disappeared, two days were lost and only three races were sailed in the first four days. Then the wind came and two two-race days were sailed. The racing turned into a three-horse-race. Defending champion Jose Maria van der Ploeg started well with two second places, scored a 17th in the third race then built up a commanding points lead with a 2-7-1 to go into the final race with 13.5 points ahead of Philippe Presti with 19.75 and Fredrik Loof with 26.75 points.

In the last race Loof needed to win, which he did, but van der Ploeg had done enough to retain his title with an 11th and Presti had slipped to third overall after finishing 20th which he had to count after an earlier 45th.

41. European Championship 1996
Hospitalet, Spain, June 7-15,
36 entries from 18 countries.

The Senior and Junior fleets were combined for the 1996 Championships. Some of the top sailors had already gone to train in Savannah prior to the Olympics but defending champion Jose Maria van der Ploeg and current World Champion Philippe Presti both decided to start. The races were sailed in light to medium winds coming from the open sea. Van der Ploeg showed his Olympic form again: he never finished worse than third and defended his title in style. He had good speed and let the others make the mistakes in the shifty winds. Runner-up and top Junior Mateusz would go on to win Gold in the Savannah Olympics later that summer.

42. European Championship 1997
Split, Croatia, June 6-14,
55 entries from 22 countries.

Light winds dominated the week's racing in the picturesque Adriatic port of Split. Again the event was combined with the Juniors which boosted the numbers. The first race featured the 1978 European Champion, Minski Fabris, winning in his home town. People jumped in the water, fireworks were let off and the whole race committee was ecstatic. Hans Spitzauer was the early leader, being the only sailor to maintain a run of top 10 places. Then a second- half charge by Luca Devoti saw him win race 4 and take the lead into going race 7. Xavier Rohart won race 6 to move up to second. On the last day, the fleet waited all day for the wind to come... but it didn't come and so Luca became the new European Champion, one of the most experienced sailors in the fleet.

43. European Championship 1998
Vilamoura, Portugal, June 5-13,
77 entries from 25 countries.

The sunny and very hot venue of Vilamoura attracted the largest entry ever seen at a Finn European Championship, which was again combined with the Junior fleet. Sebastien Godefroid who had won all the major regattas so far in 1998, added the European Championship to his list after the last race was cancelled and without winning a single race. Runner-up Michael Maier also did not win a race, but third placed Iain Percy in only his second season in the Finn won two races, but also had two bad races. Fourth placed Xavier Rohart also managed to win two races but again had some high scores to count. The British team triumphed in the final race with Jamie Lea leading a 1, 2, 3, 4 for the UK .