The sailing competitions: Compressed and high-profile
The 83. Warnemünder Woche is over and it has been shown that the organizers were able to realize a top sailing event despite Corona restrictions and difficulties caused by construction work on the middle pier. This year twelve boat classes took part over the course of the nine regatta days Warnemünder Woche. 900 participants from 20 nations sailed with around 500 boats for the best placings.
During the Warnemünder Woche Among other things, two European Championships, three German Championships, a German Open, the Laser Europa Cup and the long-distance classic Rund Bornholm were held.
Jesper Armbrust won that Contender European Championship As part of the Warnemünder Woche. The Dane defended his lead against the field of 78 competitors for five days and won confidently. The reigning world champion Max Billerbeck became vice European champion.
The new European champions in the First / Seascape 18 class are Blaž Kmetec and Jure Jerkovič. For the two Slovenians, the event was a wire-to-wire victory, as they never relinquished the lead on any of the three sailing days.
In the first part of Warnemünder Woche 44 teams competed in the class 505st to identify their masters. German champion were Wolfgang Hunger and Holger Jess, neither of whom could hold a candle to them. The world champions from 2001, 2003 and 2005 showed consistently good performance and did not finish any of the ten races worse than third place
Svenja Thoroe and Karsten Bredt won the championship title International German Pirate Championship defended against 48 teams. The championship took place on the last day Warnemünder Woche over. The two showed good results in all ten races.
Michael Höfgen of the Kiel Yacht Club and his crewmate Eckhard Kaller became German Champions in Double Handed Offshore Long Distance . The championship took place as part of the long-distance race around Bornholm. Höfgen was fastest both in terms of elapsed time (1 day, 23 hours, 56 minutes, 6 seconds) and corrected time (2 days, 19 minutes, 58 seconds) sailing the JPK 10.30 "Lightworks".
The victory in the German Open of the J/70 went to Michael Grau from Hamburg and his international crew, consisting of Briton Gerry Mitchell, who already has three Volvo Ocean Race participations and several Farr 40 world championship titles, Australian professional sailor David Chapman, Sailing Champions League winner of 2019, and Hamburg sailor Florian Thoelen.
This year 's long-distance race around Bornholm was characterized by light winds, which demanded a lot from the participants. A total of 35 yachts took part. The fastest yacht based on elapsed time was the TP 52 "Imagine". After corrected time, "Halbtrocken 4.5" was the fastest boat and took the victory in the ORC classification.
The largest field was once again the Laser class in its ILCA/Laser Europa Cup , divided into the ILCA 4/4.7, ILCA 7 Standard, and ILCA 6 Radial classes, with 171 ILCA/Lasers participating. Johan Schubert from Denmark won the ILCA 7/Laser Standard class, Julia Büsselberg from Germany won the ILCA 6/Laser Radial class, and Max Frank from the Netherlands won the ILCA 4/Laser 4.7 class.
