Seven wins in 13 races resulted in a win rate of more than 50 per cent for the defending champions from the German Touring Yacht Club on the second Bundesliga weekend. The reigning German champions sailed to their first win of the season on Lake Constance with this commanding gala performance and also took the lead in the standings ahead of second-placed VSaW and Lindauer Segel-Club, as the leaders from NRV stumbled to twelfth place on Lake Constance.
DTYC helmsman Julian Stückl, Patrick Follmann, Jonas Vogt and Tobias Bolduan relegated the team from the Seglerhaus am Wannsee club and the Bavarian Yacht Club to second and third place ahead of Konstanz. The Berlin VSaW team led by skipper Malte Kamrath had been able to hold their own against the Tutzing team for a long time, winning five races themselves, but in the final tally they were six points short of victory.
Lake Constance presented the first and second division teams with intense challenges this weekend with light and complicated sailing conditions. There were postponements and longer breaks in the doldrums. Not all of the planned races could be completed. The DTYC crew kept their concentration best, repeatedly securing good starting positions with successful starts in a row. "We got off to a very, very good start at this event. That made a big difference," said helmsman Stückl, "but even when we didn't start so well, we always sailed cleanly tactically and were able to outsmart the others a few times."
While there was joy at the top of the upper house, Jochen Schümann's Yachtclub Berlin-Grünau (YCBG) found itself in 18th place at the end of the three-day league meeting without the three-time Olympic champion and thus slipped to 17th place in the table. Olympic sixth-placed and YCBG helmsman Robert Stanjek, without his regular crew, finished an unusual sixth in the eleven races and was unable to get rid of the red lantern in the stern in the final races.
In the 2nd Bundesliga, a northern club won in the south: the Bremen sailing club Das Wappen von Bremen, which had just been relegated to the lower division, relegated the Bodensee-Yacht-Club Überlingen and the Schweriner Yacht-Club to second and third place. The Hamburg Sailing Club, which narrowly failed in the relegation to the 1st Bundesliga, took the lead in the table with fifth place in Constance ahead of the Potsdam Yacht Club and the host Constance Yacht Club. The third league weekend for first and second division teams will take place from 23 to 25 July off Travemünde.
Tatjana Pokorny
Sports reporter
