Ice ass regatta

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Ice Ass Regatta 2013; in the background the club building of the Lübeck Yacht Club

The Eisarsch Regatta is a northern German sailing event that has been held since 1969 by the Eisarschgilde of the Lübeck Yacht Club founded in 1898 on the Wakenitz River in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck ( Schleswig-Holstein ), which has been dammed since the Middle Ages . Until 2018, only men with a minimum age of 25 years were admitted as participants. In 2019, the age of participation was reduced to 21 years and women are also allowed to participate

history

The winter regatta takes place on the first Saturday in December. One-handed dinghies for children and young people, the optimists, are sailed . The adult participants name boarding the dinghies as the greatest challenge . It is not uncommon for them to swim in the cold, wintry river water - hence the name for the regatta .

Until 2019, only men over 25 were allowed to start. The participants will be weighed before the start, including the cloakroom, but they can also step in front of the weighing station in clothing that is unsuitable for the winter, such as swimming trunks. The entry fee costs 20 cents per kilogram. The prize is pink plastic casts of a child's bottom on a mahogany board. The ice ass goes to the fastest participant , the ice ass trophy to the best foreign sailor and the team ass to the best team.

The sailing is on a triangular course between Falkendamm, the area of ​​the Lübeck Yacht Club on Roeckstraße and the Moltkebrücke . Sailors from all over northern Germany take part in the regatta. 176 sailors were registered for the 37th regatta in December 2005, 136 were rated.

The exclusion of women from participation in the regatta statutes up to and including 2018 also led to criticism. The lawsuit brought by a sailor who tried to fight for participation in court in the 1980s was dismissed. As a reason why women should remain excluded in the future, the organization manager Günter Arndt from the Lübeck Yacht Club told the news magazine Spiegel in 2003 : "If we were to allow women, we would probably quickly have more participants than we can manage organizationally." Several women registered to take part in the ice ass regatta on December 7, 2019.

The regatta could not be held six times so far because the Wakenitz was frozen over, the last time in 2010. In addition, the regatta was canceled in 1977 due to lull . During the 39th ice ass regatta on December 1, 2007 with wind force 6 and a water temperature of nine degrees, 25 of 110 participants capsized. The winner for the second time after 2001 was Bernhard Krüger from the Trave sailing club, who became the 15-year-old German champion in the Optimist category in 1983 and was vice world champion in the Platu 25 class in 2007 .

The 2008 regatta was the first time a woman took part, but initially without the knowledge of the organizers. The regatta fell on December 6th, St. Nicholas Day , and all sailors had dressed up as St. Nicholas. Heike Gercken, youth trainer of the Neustädter Segelverein and two-time world champion in windsurfing (1999 and 2001), had registered with her correct - albeit very indistinctly written - first name, this was interpreted as "Heiko" by the regatta office, so her report was accepted and she could start. At the finish she took off her Santa Claus coat and stood in the dinghy with a white angelic robe and wings. "Everyone took it with humor," she said afterwards. However, the organizer did not want to change the statutes and continue to exclude women. "That was a one-time action and only possible because of the costumes," said Frank Schärffe from the Ice Ass Guild. The best-known participant in the regatta on December 1, 2012 was Simon Grotelüschen , who sailed with a mahogany optimist with whom he had once learned to sail. He landed in the back of the field of 70 sailors because the Opti was pulling water. In 2014, on St. Nicholas' Day, Meeno Schrader took 16th place out of 53 participants in the 46th Ice Ass Regatta . In 2016 there was a lull when the regatta was about to take place, so a rubber boot throwing competition was held instead. 2017 won Matthias Düwel from Hamburg. Helge Sach had led the field in the second cross; however, he capsized, pumped the Opti and reached ninth place.

More ice ass regattas

The term Eisarsch Regatta has meanwhile been adopted by other sailing clubs for winter sailing events. The Seglervereinigung Havel eV at Berlin Stößensee has been organizing an ice ass regatta since 1983 under the name Eisarschel-Wettfahrt. It takes place every year just before liposuction. Only the club's water boats are allowed there, i.e. the boats that remain in the water in winter. Sailing is on the Unterhavel and to Yardstick . In Kiel , the Schwentinemünde sailing club and the Schwentine cruise sailors have been organizing regattas in optimists under this name in the Schwentine estuary since 1991 . The sailing comradeship Buchholz in the Nordheide hosted their second ice ass regatta on December 3, 2005 on the Buchholz city pond. Based on the Lübeck model, ice arsch regattas have been held in Austria on Lake Attersee near Nussdorf since 2001. The ice ass regatta of the Möhnesee Yacht Club, which will be held on the Möhnesee from 2008, even refers explicitly to the Lübeck model in the tender.

Web links

Commons : Eisarsch-Regatta  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ Lübeck "Eisarschregatta". Where a man can still be a man. In: www.spiegel.de. Spiegel, December 4, 2003, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Arcus Stöcklin: End for men's clubs? Clubs criticize Scholz's advance . In: Lübecker Nachrichten . December 12, 2019, p. 6 .
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  7. ↑ Sabine Latzel: North German-fresh: Regatta with Abbaden . In: Lübecker Nachrichten . December 2, 2007, p. 30 .
  8. ↑ 2001 Annual Report. (PDF) In: www.sailing.org. International Sailing Federation , p. 29 , archived from the original on June 26, 2012 ; accessed on February 22, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ Heike Gercken: An angel at the ice ass regatta. In: www.pls.de. Archived from the original on October 25, 201 ; accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  10. ^ Sebastian Rosenkötter: Eisarsch-Regatta: An angel cheated under the Santa Clauses . In: Lübecker Nachrichten . December 9, 2008, p. 9 .
  11. ↑ Torsten Teichmann: Eisarsch-Regatta: Tiny dinghies withstand heavy men . In: Lübecker Nachrichten . December 2, 2012, p. 13 .
  12. ^ Men in Small Boats . In: Lübecker Nachrichten . December 7, 2014, p.  14 .
  13. ↑ Calm and flying rubber boots . In: Lübecker Nachrichten . December 4, 2016, p.  14 .
  14. ↑ Sebastian Rosenkötter: A hamburger won the ice ass trophy . In: Lübecker Nachrichten . December 5, 2017, p. 15 .
  15. ↑ Eisarschel race. In: svhavel.de. Havel Sailing Association, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Eisarsch regatta at Möhnesee (North Rhine-Westphalia) on December 5th, 2015. In: www.eisarsch.de. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .