J/22 Germany- Training for Segel-Bundesliga

(Hamburg, Germany)-  With beautiful, almost summery weather, the Hamburg Segel Club trained for the upcoming Segel-Bundesliga on the club's J/22s.  If you recall, the H.S.C was one of the hosts for the 2013 version of the Segel-Bundesliga sailed on J/70s on the Alster lake.  The H.S.C. will again be hosting the season-ending regatta from October 31st to November 2nd on the lake.

The H.S.C. is taking their preparations seriously this year and have had two of their teams practicing on courses similar to what was used in last year’s Bundesliga.  Both teams have focused a lot on short-course training. Fast maneuvers were practiced to learn how to take advantage of the opponent and place them in positions that are difficult to escape from.

According to the coaches, the training has gone well and have been very focused but fun.  Helping on the course and performing “jury duty” are Thorsten Mocker and Svenja Hünsch.  The two teams are the following:

• Team JOHANN- Max Gurgel (skipper), Daniel Zenker (bow), Thorben Strube (cockpit)
• Team JETTE- Anke Scheuermann (skipper), Bernadette Zipfel (cockpit), Lamberto Cesari (jib), Gabi Feldberg (bow)

These teams will be participating in the first event of the Deutsche Segel-Bundesliga sailing from April 4th to 6th at Glucksburg, teams will be sailing J/70s and J/80s.  There are 58 sailing clubs represented in the event with the first three events acting as “qualifiers” for the final two events.  For more information about the Bundesliga- http://segelbundesliga.de/  Sailing photo credits- Pepe Hartmann   For more German J/22 sailing information

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