Kongelig Dansk Yacht Club
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| Full name | Kongelig Dansk Yacht Club | ||
| Founded | July 3, 1866 in Nyborg | ||
| Association headquarters | Tuborg Havnepark 15, Hellerup ( Copenhagen ) | ||
| Chairman | Myralf is different | ||
| Members | 2200 | ||
| Club facilities | Rungsted Havn, Skovshoved Havn and Tuborg Havn | ||
| Homepage | http://kdy.dk | ||
Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub (KDY) (German: Royal Danish Yacht Club) is the largest sailing club in Denmark with its headquarters in Tuborg Havnepark 15, Hellerup ( Copenhagen ).
founding
The club was founded on July 3, 1866 after a regatta in Nyborg on the island of Funen and was originally called Dansk Forening for Lystsejlads (German: Danish Association for Sportships). Since then the association has worked to promote sailing in Denmark and to support its members in the practice of their sport.
The number of members grew rapidly over the years and was 900 members in 1891 on the 25th anniversary. In 1920 there were 1700 members. In the post-war years of the First World War , the number of members fell sharply and stabilized in the period from 1930 to 1958 with a membership strength of around 1,000. Then the number rose sharply again, until 1983 the number of 2,700 members was reached. Today the Kongelig Dansk Yacht Club has around 2,200 members, many of whom are in the Danish provinces and abroad.
Naming and stander
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the association in 1891, King Christian IX. the association the right to call itself Kongelig Dansk Yacht Club in the future. The previously used white club stand with three red stars gave way in 1891 and the name change to the new stand with a royal crown over three yellow stars.
The yacht flag (the Danish naval flag with the letters YF in the upper quadrant) was allowed as the national flag on pleasure craft until 1865, before yacht clubs as such even existed. In 1873, on the highest order, club members were allowed to display three stars diagonally under the letter YF in their yacht flag.
Clubhouse
The club's first clubhouse, known as the Langelinjepavillon , was built in 1884 on the Pinnebergs Ravelin near Copenhagen Castle and the Langelinie waterfront opposite the Copenhagen waterfront. For the first 15 years the club rented the premises of De Forenede Bryggerier , an association of 11 smaller breweries in Copenhagen. The house was replaced in 1903 by a new and larger building, designed by the Danish architect Fritz Koch (1857–1905).
The popular wooden pavilion was the home of the club until 1944, when the building was blown up by the Schalburgkorps (a Danish SS unit) in retaliation for acts of sabotage by the Danish resistance movement. Fortunately, the club had already found new premises in 1942 in the port of Skovshoved in the northern part of Copenhagen on the Øresund . The club moved to these club rooms and all club activities were directed from here.
The Junior Club (founded in 1929) in particular benefited from moving from central Copenhagen to Skovshoved. The shipping traffic in the port of Copenhagen had increased to such an extent that it posed a danger to the youth boats and the other boats anchored in front of the Langelinje pavilion. After the building was blown up, the regattas in the port area were practically suspended. The youth department of the KDY was the first organized youth department in Denmark and since 1942 the girls were recognized as juniors.
Development after the Second World War
Since the Second World War there has hardly been any sailing activity in front of Langelinie, but the KDY had its beautiful property and the secretariat at this address. In 1958 the club moved back into its club rooms in the new Langelinjepavillon, designed by Eva and Nils Koppel.
Sailing experienced an enormous boom, especially between 1960 and 1980. The number of sailors who are organized in an association increased from 17,700 to 60,500 according to figures from the Danish Sailing Association. In the same way the number of boats grew. In order to adapt to this development, the KDY had to expand through the area in the port of Rungsted, which was developed in cooperation with the Rungsted Kyst Yacht Club . The municipality of Hørsholm provided financial support. The club now owned its own premises in Rungsted, financed partly by membership fees and partly by various funds and institutions. For the first time, KDY was able to build a healthy financial basis. Thanks to consistent debt repayment, the clubhouse in Rungsted is now debt-free and the finances are on a well-consolidated basis.
Regatta activities
The demands of the members and those of the sailors changed over time. In regattas, Olympic courses are always popular, handicap regattas and off-shore regattas are valued, but interest is declining. Are called match-race regattas and more family-oriented activities. The Kongelig Dansk Yacht Club has responded to this demand and offers a variety of activities and does not hesitate to tackle special projects such as Denmark's participation in the Admiral's Cup in 1987, 1989 and 1991 and the support of the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race . The KDY's priorities have always been to work with young talent. So you saw new opportunities for funding when the club inherited the Rolf & Wanda Danckert's Mindefond (German: Remembrance Fund ) in 1993. With further support from JC Hempel's Fond , they bought a Yngling sailboat for the young .
In 1994 the club bought two SSA Match Race yachts (SSA = Scandinavian Sailing Association), which became very popular. Today they belong to the KDY / SKS Match Race Center which operates together with the Skovshoved Yacht Club. In 1997 the Match Race Center bought two more Match Race yachts and now owns six (two in each club). These boats were the basis for the success at the World Championship in Match Race in 1999. The center is very active and organizes many regattas, e.g. B. an annual high-level regatta with sailors at the top of the world rankings. In 2005, KDY amicably took over the shares of the Skovshoved Yacht Club in the Match Race Center, as Skovshoved wanted a different sailing sport. As a consequence, the center was renamed the Royal Match Race Center.
Merger with Rungsted Kyst Yacht Club
In the fall of 2000, Kongelig Dansk Yacht Club and Rungsted Kyst Yacht Club merged after the clubs had been neighbors in Rungsted for so many years and had worked together in major international regattas. In this way, many committed members and many fields of activity came to the club: club regattas (one of the most popular activities in Denmark), the optimist department (children's sailing department), dinghy and youth department and one of the best sailing schools in the country.
The next big step in the development of Kongelig Dansk Yacht Club took place when Queen Margrethe II personally inaugurated the new clubhouse in Tuborg Harbor on June 12, 2007 . The clubhouse was built in connection with the new marina in Tuborg operated by KDY. Until a few years ago, the site was the headquarters of the Carlsberg / Tuborg brewery.
Today Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub operates from three marinas (Rungsted Havn, Skovshoved Havn and Tuborg Havn) to look after and support its more than 2,200 members.
150 years of KDY
The 150th anniversary of KDY in 2016 was celebrated with a series of high-level regattas: World Racing Match Tour, one-hand regatta around Denmark, ORC World Championship and regattas for the meter classes 5.5mR, 8mR and 12mR, which were held in front of Tuborg .
Individual evidence
- ^ The History of Royal Danish Yacht Club. In: www.kdy.dk. Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub, accessed January 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Kongelig Dansk Yacht Club from 1866 to 2014. In: www.kdy.dk. Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub, accessed January 11, 2020 (Danish).
- ↑ yacht-classic, issue 1/2017, p. 35.