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Class portraitBetween barracks yard and regatta course

Pascal Schürmann

 · 20.07.2015

Class portrait: Between barracks yard and regatta coursePhoto: YACHT/B. Scheurer
Cutter regatta during the Kiel Week 2015
The navy cutters were already present at the first Kiel Week. To this day, they organise their annual regattas on the inner fjord - a record!

For the 126th time, several dozen cutter crews from all over Germany came together to find their champions in various cutter classes during the recent Kieler Woche. Although no other boat class has been in Kiel for so long and so consistently year after year, the naval cutters tend to play a subordinate role in the public eye.

This is certainly partly due to the fact that the cutter sailors are not based at the sailing centre in Kiel-Schilksee like the other dinghy crews and soloists. Instead, they traditionally pitch their tents - literally - at the naval base.

That's exactly where we met them, accompanied them during the races and thus gained an insight into a close-knit community. The report can now be readin the extra thick summer issue of YACHT (issue 16/2015, available now at newsagents and in the app store).

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Pascal Schürmann

Pascal Schürmann

Editor YACHT

Pascal Schürmann joined YACHT in Hamburg in 2001. As head of copywriting and head of the editorial team, he makes sure that all articles make it into the magazine on time and that they are both informative and entertaining to read. He was born in the Bergisches Land region near Cologne. He learned how to handle the tiller and sheet as a teenager in a touring dinghy on the Sneeker Meer and on a tall ship on the IJsselmeer. During and after his studies, he sailed on the Baltic Sea and in the Mediterranean. As a trained business journalist, he is also responsible for boat financing and yacht insurance reports at YACHT, but also has a soft spot for blue water topics.

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