Deutscher Segler-Verband: Seglertag removes cruiser division from the constitution
The representatives of 103 of the approximately 1,200 member clubs of the DSV met in Bremen at the weekend for the biennial sailors' conference to vote on matters relating to the statutes and personnel issues.
Members of the Executive Committee confirmed
Katrin Adloff from Lower Saxony was re-elected as Vice President in charge of competitive sailing and Jonathan Koch from Lake Constance was confirmed as Youth Chairman.
The delegates elected Claus Funk from Constance to the Executive Committee to replace Clemens Fackeldey from Berlin, who will not be standing for re-election and will take over the Cruising and Leisure Sailing division. The 70-year-old has been sailing since the age of 16. As a schoolboy in a pirate boat, during his studies in civil engineering as a sailing instructor and when he started his career on his own keel on Lake Constance and as a charterer worldwide. The founding member of the Hagnau water sports community managed the Constance Shipping Office from 2012 to 2021 and is still a freelance marine surveyor today.
Reorganisation of the Cruising division
The remit of the newly elected cruising sailor representative is to be reorganised in future. The Cruiser Division (KA), founded in 1911 and Germany's largest interest group for cruising sailing with around 15,000 members and a board elected by them, will no longer exist.
Until now, this was managed by the DSV Vice President with the Cruising and Leisure Sailing Division as KA Chairman. Back in October, the Sailing Council decided to abolish this structure and cancel the KA's working regulations.
The Sailing Day responded to this decision without a lengthy debate and voted by a majority in favour of the motion put forward by the Presidium and Sailing Council to remove the KA and the responsibilities of its elected board from the DSV Basic Law.
There were also no discussions about the annual financial statements and discharge.
Honours and awards
At the end of the association conference, which only lasted around four hours, outgoing DSV youth chairman Timo Haß received the gold badge of honour for his twelve years of commitment. Dr Eberhard Geisler received the bronze badge of honour for more than three decades of commitment to the environmental committee. A further 39 clubs were honoured for outstanding training.
The next Sailors' Day will take place on 16 November 2024 in Warnemünde; at the request of the Executive Committee, the rotation was adapted to that of the Olympic Games.
