In the final of the 13th Bundesliga season, Joersfelder Segel-Club 2025 was beaten by the record champions from Norddeutscher Regatta Verein by the narrowest of margins: The Berliners had had to concede points to Hamburg in the battle for the championship trophy. That was tough, as the Joersfeld team had never been able to lay hands on the silver platter before. The next attempt has now been successful.
Starting signal in Starnberg: the JSC wins
At the Kick-off to the 14th Bundesliga season Joersfelder Segel-Club won this weekend with 13.69 points ahead of Mühlenberger Segel-Club - the third-placed team of the 2025 season. JSC helmsman Christoph Cornelius, Nicolas Thierse, Jannik Gabriel and Daniel Schwarze held their nerve and kept an overview in the Bavarian Flauentenschach.
Mühlenberger Segel-Club, with its experienced helmsman Till Krüger and the other 2024 champions Lynn Hafemann, Benjamin Ahlers and Jasper Thorns, took second place with 16 points in just eight of 16 scheduled races. The Potsdamer Yacht-Club sailed to third place on the podium (21 points).
After finishing last in the first race and a difficult start in the light and shifty conditions, the eight-time record champions from the Norddeutscher Regatta Verein had to roll up the field from behind. In the final sprint of the league short programme, Mats Schönebeck, Henrik Peters, Ferdinand Pfund and Moritz Gießelmann managed to finish seventh on Sunday after an almost completely flat Saturday. The young NRV success quartet played a key role in the NRV triple in 2025: they added victory in the Junior League and victory in the Junior Champions League to their eighth championship title in the Bundesliga.
Second Bundesliga: two Lübeck clubs "frame" the result
The final day got off to a very promising start with winds of between ten and twelve knots before a heavy thunderstorm with hail showers arrived. After that, only a few races were possible in very light and shifty winds. To the first league results from the Bundesliga opener on Lake Starnberg it goes here.
The second division teams also opened the season on Lake Starnberg. The hosts were only partially rewarded for their commitment in sporting terms: the Munich rowing and sailing club "Bayern" von 1910 took tenth place. Coxswain Moritz Pich and his crew were also able to celebrate two one-day victories in the only eight races per second division team. The German Touring Yacht Club did not make it past 16th place at the start of the new Bundesliga season.
The crew from Lübeck Yacht Club with Bosse Fahrenkrog at the helm came out on top in this weekend's second league concert. The Frankfurt Yacht Club with helmsman Felix Laukhardt and the crew of the Seglervereinigung 1903 Berlin with Erik Witzmann sailed to second and third place at the first event of the 2nd Bundesliga season. Things went less well for the second team from the Marzipan city: Lübecker Segler-Verein von 1885 brought up the rear at the start of the second league season.
The Bundesliga remains in Bavaria for the time being
On land, the two host second league clubs offered the 150 or so sailors, their teams, friends and fans a friendly and lively Bundesliga harbour. Together with the Bayerischer Yacht-Club and the Münchner Yacht-Club, the organisers from the Münchner Ruder- und Segelverein "Bayern" von 1910 and the Deutsche Touring Yacht Club created a beach club atmosphere and some variety.
The fleet will remain in the south for the second Bundesliga event of the 14th season: the Bayerischer Yacht-Club will once again host first and second division teams on Lake Starnberg from 1 to 3 May. The next general meeting of the Deutsche Segel-Liga e.V. is planned for May. after the upheaval to set the course for the future.
Tatjana Pokorny
Sports reporter
