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Company Cup 2024Great pictures from the colleague regatta on Lake Constance

Morten Strauch

 · 11.05.2024

DCC 2024 Lake Constance
Photo: Ekke Erben Photography
The German Company Cup 2024, which was held in Kressbronn on Lake Constance, will be remembered for its strong images and an outstanding team. In perfect foehn weather, 14 crews were able to compete in two leagues for two days and sail to the placings. Crews from companies, clubs and organisations from Germany and abroad were once again able to take part in the third edition of the German Company Cup

Photographer Ekke Erben from Hamburg was on site and captured the company regatta impressively: "After snow and rain the week before, we had the best foehn weather in time for the start. We had everything from calm and fog to 20 knots of wind. Dream conditions for me too!"

Membership of associations or clubs is not required, and teams can even be made up of employees from different companies. According to the organisers, the Company Cup offers the opportunity to master challenges with colleagues, to sharpen team spirit and to achieve the goal together. Experiences are taken back to the companies and contribute to company loyalty and employee recruitment.

Top placings in the Extra League (with light wind sails)

  1. ifm group of companies with skipper Fabian Gielen
  2. Gorbach Industrievertretungen with skipper Wilhelm Gorbach
  3. Porsche company sport sailing with skipper Oliver Novak

The places in League 1 (without light wind sails)

  1. ANDREAS STIHL AG & Co. KG with skipper Malte von Hofen
  2. Ifm electronic GmbH with skipper Lutz Heyne
  3. Eurofighter Panavia Sportgemeinschaft with skipper Kim Whyte

In addition to the challenge trophy and the trophies for the first three places, the J70 and ifm company trophies were awarded for the first time this year. Both trophies went to the ifm crew "The Big Orange HeartBeat with Captain Hot Orange" with skipper Fabian Gielen, who won a total of three trophies. All placings can be viewed on the website of the Organiser can be viewed here.

No Lake Constance skipper's licence required

Possession of a Lake Constance skipper's licence or the otherwise required boat registration do not play a role in the Company Cup on Lake Constance. This is made possible by an exemption for authorised regattas granted by the Lake Constance District Office. Training runs may also be carried out from one week before the start.

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Morten Strauch

Morten Strauch

Editor News & Panorama

Morten Strauch was born in Schleswig in 1977, but grew up mainly in Lüneburg. He joined the Boy Scouts so that he could take part in a youth sailing camp in the Stockholm archipelago. After an internship at BOOTE magazine, he dropped out of his communications design studies, followed by 13 years as a freelance photographer and author for BOOTE, BOOTE Exclusiv and YACHT. In 2019, he was hired by Hanseyachts to serve as press spokesman and marketing manager. Consequently, the long-awaited first boat becomes a Hanse 291. Three and a half years later, he returns to Delius Klasing, this time as an editor for YACHT in the Panorama department. When not (also) privately on the water, Morten can be found scuba diving or collecting fossils on the coast.

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