Hanseatic Yacht School

Main entrance of the Hanseatic Yacht School

The Hanseatic Yacht School ( HYS for short , pronounced Hüss ) in Glücksburg is described by the association itself and in press articles as Germany's largest and oldest sailing school . It belongs to the German High Seas Sports Association HANSA (DHH).

history

The Hanseatic Yacht School was founded in Neustadt in Holstein in 1925 “as part of the covert armament for the training of future officers”. In March 1934 the Navy claimed the space in Neustadt as a “submarine school”, whereupon the sailing school had to move temporarily to Sierksdorf . Since November 1935 it has been based in Glücksburg in the Quellental at the Glücksburg marina, which was newly created in the same year.

In 2008 the yacht school opened the new accommodation building with modern, maritime furnished 4-bed rooms. There is space for up to 190 sailing students and can be accommodated in full board.

In 2017 the outdated boat hall was demolished and replaced by a new building. The Hamburg businessman Eberhard Wienholt donated 2 million of the 2.8 million euros in total. The result is a 1000 square meter building with a dark gray aluminum facade. A 600 square meter extension was clad with larch wood. It contains training rooms, a sanitary area with a wet lock , drying rooms, a technical room for sailing instructors and a workshop; there is also a large roof terrace upstairs.

Sail training

Today more than 3000 sailors are trained annually in the Hanseatic Yacht School . Sailing crews from the Hanseatic Yacht School in Glücksburg became known through successful participation in large international regattas. Influential and well-known sponsors campaigned for the Hanseatic Yacht School. A large donation was the yacht Germania V family Krupp . The main core of this school are voluntary sailing instructors who supervise the courses of the Hanseatic Yacht School from a certain officially certified sailing qualification. A fund from the Eberhard Wienholt Foundation is available for their training and finances the relevant seminars.

Reception deck or reception
terrace
Flagpole on the terrace
old boat hall, demolition 2017, new building 2017, to the right of it the training boats of the type Laser 2000 ("Alpha")
new boat shed, 2018
new boat hall inside, 2018
Baltic Sea Bridge with training boats , folk boats on the left , J / 80 on the right