(Hamburg, Germany)- The report from Sven Jürgensen at Mittelmanswerft
Gmbh in Germany (the J/Dealer for Germany) indicates that many of the
leading Deutsche Segel-Bundesliga J/70 teams are doing well and are
fine-tuning their team’s capabilities.According to Sven, “it was another good training session this past Saturday and Sunday. The weather cooperated nicely with a partly cloudy day with 6-12 kt winds on Saturday and rain with 10-18 kt puffy, shifty winds on Sunday.
We had six clubs participating in the program on Alster Lake, thanks to the support of the Norddeutscher Regatta Verein sailing club. The six clubs in attendance included the host team plus Flensburger Segel Club (they brought two boats), Segelkameradschaft Wappen von Bremen, Seglervereinigung Itzehoe, Blankeneser Segel Club, and Entdecker-und Seefahrerfördervereinigung.
The
teams sailed both days in the “league format”, short windward-leeward
races with two jury boats on the race course. Each day we had two
rounds of three hours of sailing each, with a brief break in between for
lunch and team reviews by the coaches. Each team often changed crews
to give more sailors a chance to find new team members that could make a
contribution for the season long series. Even the skippers were
swapped out! For Example: Blankeneser Segel Club had Claas Lehmann (the
J/70 Primo Cup Winner) sail a few races, then swap out with another
skipper.Segler Vereinigung Itzehoe have Christian Soyka sailing with a very young crew. One new crewmember was Stella Mau- interestingly, she sailed in the 2008 J/80 World Championship in Kiel, Germany with J/Boats President, Jeff Johnstone.
Most of the teams feel they are well-prepared for the first Deutsche Segel-Bundesliga event sailing from May 1st to 3rd on the Starnberger See off Tutzing, Germany.” Sailing photo credits- Sven Jürgensen Fotografie For more Deutsche Segel-Bundesliga sailing information
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