A successful start for the team of German champions from the German Touring Yacht Club on the second Bundesliga weekend: After nine of 15 races, the team was in the lead in the doldrums on Lake Constance on Saturday evening. However, the races were still continuing at the time.
The crew from the Seglerhaus am Wannsee club followed close on the heels of the southern Germans, ahead of the Chiemsee Yacht Club and the Bavarian Yacht Club. The southern clubs and the Berlin lake sailors initially had less difficulty than the north in the light summer breeze.
Symptomatic of this was the interim 15th place of the weakening two-time champions from the Norddeutscher Regatta Verein in Hamburg, who had two last places and three fifth places in the races with six teams each and will have to attack on Sunday if they do not want to slip back quite a bit in the league table from their traditional top place, which Tobias Schadewaldt and his NRV team had given their club at the start of the season in Starnberg. After the first nine races, the red taillight lantern hung in the stern of the crew from the Kieler Yacht-Club.
The second league weekend began on Friday in winds of five to six knots. On Saturday, it continued with even less wind in difficult conditions with many interruptions. The flat airs demanded all the teams' concentration. But there was plenty of sunshine. The second league weekend ends on Sunday. The races will be broadcast live on the internet.
Parallel to the first division clubs, the second division clubs are also in action before Konstanz. Here, too, the southern clubs initially dominated. After seven of the 15 planned races, the Bodensee-Yacht-Club Überlingen and the Konstanzer Yacht-Club were in the lead.
Tatjana Pokorny
Sports reporter
