Where is the wind? Where are the boats? The long-distance regatta at Travemünde Week turned into a real scavenger hunt on sea for the organising team and the crews of 13 yachts that set off for Fehmarn on Friday evening. As darkness fell, a heavy calm descended over the bays of Lübeck and Mecklenburg, forcing … Read more
Since their premiere in 2010, the show races in the Segel Arena Trave have been the daily sporting highlight for guests of Travemünde Week. The races in spectacular classes right in front of the audience on the Travepromenade, the Trave Races, have become the link between sailing and the festival. The Trave Races offer sailing … Read more
In three days, on 18 July, Travemünde Week will officially start off its 136th edition. Along the Trave and beach promenades, in the sailing areas on the Mövenstein and on the Priwall, the event hosts and organisers are preparing for the arrival of almost 800 sailors and hundreds of thousands of visitors. Travemünde Week will … Read more
The organisers of the Travemünde Week present the fresh poster for the TW 2025 (from left): Lutz Kleinfeldt, Anja Kamrath, Lorenz Buchler, Frank Schärffe, Jan Lindenau, Petros Michelidakis, Sascha Osterwalder, Andreas Christiansen, Frauke Klatt, Jens Kath, Marius Berlemann and Ralf Schulte. Photo: segel-bilder.de In half a year, Lübeck’s fifth season will begin: the Travemünde Week. The … Read more
Sustainability is one of the topics at Travemünde Week. By participating in a tree-planting initiative with the Schleswig-Holstein state forestry commission in a wooded area on Taschensee near Haffkrug, the Travemünde Week organisers have implemented a further measure to improve their own impact on nature. Avoiding rubbish, reducing energy consumption and conserving resources have been … Read more
Feature Image: Helge and Christian Sach set a new record with their 22nd victory at the Travemünde Week. Photo: segel-bilder.de The Travemünde Week ended its 135th edition with an outstanding balance of completed races. On the final day, three classes put on another full programme. Sea sailors, Formula 18 athletes and the junior sailors in … Read more
Feature Image: On the penultimate day of the Travemünde Week, there were plenty of championship medals for the successful teams at world and German level. Photo: segel-bilder.de The summer sun shone brightly over the Bay of Lübeck for the winners of the World and German Championships at Travemünde Week. In light winds, Friday’s leaders were … Read more
At the start of the final weekend of the Travemünde Week, the wind may have run out of steam for a moment. But looking back on the regattas and the festival since 19 July, the organisers of the Lübeck Yacht Club, NRV Hamburg and Zurich Yacht Club as well as the marketing agency uba from … Read more
If you look at the entry list for the Javelin class, you won’t need to memorise many different names. In nine of the 20 participating teams, both crew members have the same surname. The Javelin scene is characterised by a particularly large number of family crews. The trend is moving from sibling teams to father-son teams.
Feature photo: The World Championship was decided for the Flying Junior at the TW. The Netherlands dominated the action at the top. Photo: segel-bilder.de The British win the IC Canoe Nations Cup, the Flying Junior World Championship title goes to the Netherlands and the Germans are crowned Euro Cup winners in the Javelin. The Travemünde … Read more
Feature image: Showdown between the Germans and the British: Even before the start, it was all about putting the competing nation in a disadvantaged position. In the end, Alistair Warren in the green IC Canoe took victory for Great Britain. Photo: segel-bilder.de The silver pot stays in England For seven years, the British were allowed … Read more
One of the more exotic teams on the entry list for the Flying Junior World Championships is a team competing for Mexico. But Gentry Yanic and Hermann Mergenthaler not only have their home country in common, they are also both Olympic athletes. They have been sailing Flying Junior together for a year now. The two … Read more
Featured image: After a long wait, the star boats managed to cross the course after all. Photo: segel-bilder.de Five fresh classes for Travemünde Week, but no fresh wind: The second half of the regatta week started with long waiting times for race officers and athletes and high nervous tension. An early finish was not rewarded. … Read more
Motorboat coordinator Florian Dräger is delighted with how well the electric boats work in regattas. Photo: Katrin Heidemann The Travemünde Week focusses on sustainability. This includes the test use of two electric inflatable boats from the Swedish company RIB Unlimited to reduce fuel consumption. The boats are proving their worth as regatta support boats and … Read more
Wind from the west provided a pleasant breeze on the courses on the fifth regatta day of the Travemünde Week. However, with an oscillating direction off the Mecklenburg coast and under the steep coast of Brodten, tactical finesse was required from the crews in order to get round the course cleanly. Although the huge Opti … Read more
The Wednesday of Travemünde Week is not only the centre of the regatta week, but also traditionally offers a social and sailing highlight. Lübeck’s city president Henning Schumann (2nd from right) is delighted with the 6-litre magnum bottle of Rotspon, which he won together with “Sphinx” owner Jochen Frank (right) against MV Minister of Economic … Read more
Swedes take the Dragon Grand Prix Sailing can be brutal: the Dragon Grand Prix at the Travemünde Week was only decided in the last 100 metres of the final seventh race. The Swiss Jan Eckert allowed one boat too many to pass and lost the dress rehearsal for the European Championships just one point behind … Read more
A total of 35 athletes from the USA, Australia and Europe will be sailing at the 135th Travemünde Week until July 27 for the World Championship title and in the team competition for the New York Canoe Club Challenge Trophy, probably the second oldest trophy in sailing. The first day of the World Championships got … Read more
It is said that the Travemünde Week originated as a race for a bottle of Lübeck Rotspon. And what was the starting signal for the regatta week in 1889 was revived in 2003 by Lübeck’s mayor at the time, Bernd Saxe. For the 19th time now, Lübeck’s head of administration competes against a political colleague … Read more
The participants of the German Youth Championship arrived at the opening ceremony waving their national flags. Photo: segel-bilder.de A colourful sea of flags surrounded by hundreds of children moved from the beach on Priwall to the SlowDown stage in Passathafen yesterday. This is where the official opening of the International German Youth Championship in the … Read more
The dragons had to cope with strong gust fronts on the Baltic Sea. Photo: segel-bilder.de A day for heavy weather sailors An unexpected gust front with top speeds of up to 27 knots moved across the Bay of Lübeck on Monday afternoon and made life difficult for the participants in the Travemünde Week. While the … Read more
The safety boat crew meets for the morning briefing during the Travemünde Week. Photo: segel-bilder.de Three organisations work hand in hand at the Travemünde Week in the area of safety: the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW), the German Red Cross Water Rescue Service and the DLRG. Together they provide the safety boats on … Read more
The Optimists sailed to their first title in the Team Race. Photo: segel-bilder.de The weather scenario on day two of the Travemünde Week was not quite as perfect as at the start. However, the changing breeze allowed more races to be held during the course of the day to crown the first worthy winners of … Read more
There was every reason to celebrate at the traditional “Klönschnack” reception organised by Messe boot Düsseldorf on the four-masted barque “Passat” on Saturday evening: the trade fair has been a loyal partner of TW for half a century. “We are sponsoring the Travemünde Week for the 50th time. We are happy to be, just as … Read more
Champagne conditions for the sea sailors in three races. Photo: segel-bilder.de What a start to the 135th Travemünde Week! With sunshine and a fine easterly wind, the maximum number of 16 planned races in the six classes were completed on time. In the evening, the champagne sailing day culminated in a colourful and exciting show … Read more
In the most beautiful sunshine with a light breeze blowing up the Trave, the patron of Travemünde Week, Schleswig-Holstein’s Minister of Finance Monika Heinold, opened the 135th edition of the regatta and festival week together with Joanna Hagen, Lübeck’s deputy mayor. At 6 p.m. on 19 July, Joanna Hagen, who was standing in for Mayor … Read more
The complete program of the Travemünder Week is also available as a printed magazine. No matter what you want to know – whether about sailing or the festival – you will find the information here. The magazine is available in the Travemünder Week Regatta Center on the Travepromenade. And of course the magazine is also available online – by clicking on the photo:
On Thursday, the festival areas of Travemünde Week were still characterised by busy construction work: On the beach and Trave promenade, the stall operators rolled in with their vending carts and food trucks, tent builders erected pagodas, the Ferris wheel in the Brügmanngarten completed the last elements of its circle and on the beach, the … Read more
The weather forecast is right, the number of entries is good and the build-up is underway: The 135th edition of the Travemünde Week is in the starting blocks and the organisers from the main organiser Lübecker Yacht Club, the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and Lübeck Travemünde Marketing GmbH are looking forward to the ten great … Read more
In recent years the CLASSICAL BEAT festival has become an integral part of Travemünde Week: Since 2021, concerts combining classical music and jazz with innovative and modern elements have taken place in the ballroom of the ATLANTIC Grand Hotel right on the beach. This year, Pierre Bertrand and the Franco-German CLASSICAL BEAT Big Band will … Read more
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