Academic Yacht Club (AYC) at RWTH Aachen
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| Full name | Academic Yacht Club - Working Group on Sailing Technology at RWTH Aachen eV | |
| Founded | June 8, 1959 in Aachen | |
| Association headquarters | Aachen | |
| Club facilities | Steganlage Rurstausee ( Eifel ) | |
| Homepage | www.ayc.rwth-aachen.de | |
The AYC-StAG (Academic Yacht Club - Sailing Technology Working Group) is a student sailing association at the Technical University in Aachen .
history
The AYC was created in 1957 from the loose amalgamation of some students from the Aachen "Studentendorf" and was founded on June 8, 1959 as the "Sailing Technical Working Group of the RWTH Aachen" by students and teachers from the Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen as the first university-related sailing club. The association was given its final name “AYC-StAG” on January 30, 1961. The AYC is closely tied to the RWTH in terms of its statutes and rules of procedure and was initially reserved for university members only. With its student-oriented, but very remote association structure, it soon opened up to members from outside the university.
Objectives
The purpose of the association is to promote sailing. The purpose of the statutes is realized in particular through the sailing and nautical training of those interested in sailing, the promotion of sailing exercises and achievements and - based on RWTH Aachen University - the scientific development and testing of new types of sailboats .
Boat building
In order to make the otherwise quite expensive and exclusive sailing sport accessible to a larger group, the club was looking for new opportunities. The boat building material wood was already replaced in the early years of the association by glass fiber reinforced polyester resins, which were long-term stable, were easier to repair and required less maintenance. Better shape-optimized hull shapes could also be produced with polyester resins . The first six-meter-long traveling dinghy "Polyp" was built by the association under the responsibility of founding member Jüs Segger as a test boat and launched in the summer of 1960. Experience with the material led to the construction of numerous " moths ". The single-handed dinghy with a length of only 3.35 m was easy to transport on the car roof, it was inexpensive to build and thus enabled a larger group of people to pursue sailing.
This was followed by the construction and implementation of several catamarans , before the Thetis 26 was drawn, designed and built in 1976 by a building association in the AYC. The fast 8-meter yacht was molded a total of 14 times in the following years, one yacht is still owned by the AYC. The yachts successfully participated in numerous regattas in the Netherlands and Germany.
The construction of a modern 21-foot keel sailing dinghy with high-end boat building technologies was started in 2011 in cooperation with SC Rhe . This resulted in the construction numbers 2 to 4 of Repro21, the number 1 of which was originally developed by SC Rhe. In autumn 2010 work began with the mold construction in the hall of the SC Rhe in Hamburg and in spring 2011 the hull of construction number 2 was finally manufactured there using the vacuum injection process, which was followed by the other models.
Sailing areas
The home area near Aachen is the Rurtalsperre in the Eifel . The AYC operates a dock there for its inland fleet.
The home port for two of the club's yachts is in the southern Netherlands. The AYC's flagship "Corella" is a seaworthy yacht of the type X-37. With the “Corella”, different destinations on the European coasts are headed for every year.
Regattas
The club's own boats are regularly used in regattas across Europe . At the Rursee, the AYC organizes the long-distance regatta "Blaues Band vom Rursee" for all boat classes every year.