Pavillon d'Or
The Pavillon d'Or (golden stander ) is an internationally renowned long-distance competition for motor yachts . It was launched by the world umbrella organization Union Internationale Motonautique so that European motorboat drivers can also get to know foreign sailing areas in this way.
Regulations
All yachts from 8 meters in length with a habitable cabin can take part; they must register by a specified date. A destination is set for each rally. All nautical miles or kilometers covered in the four weeks before on the way to this destination are included in the rating . In the early years mainly the English Channel as well as the North and Baltic Seas were sailed, later inland waters were added. The participants' logbooks are evaluated to determine the results . Over the years, the regulations were partially changed or supplemented, for example from 1964 the maximum average speed was limited to 9 knots , later the journey time was reduced to fifteen days, each lock being passed through counting as many as ten kilometers driven.
The winner may use the golden yellow pennant with the red cross on a white background (UIM emblem) in the upper left square. In addition to the main prize, there are often individual prizes for different boat classes or special prizes, for example for women's teams or the clubs with the most participants. At the destination a tourist program is usually organized for the participants.
The competitions
The Pavillon d'Or was temporarily not opened annually.
1st competition 1937
The aim of the first competition was Paris , which this year hosted the world's fair for the sixth time . 35 motor yachts, including 25 British ones, met in Le Havre and drove on to Paris as a union. The only German participant had canceled at short notice. The “Yacht Moteur Club de Paris” as the organizer honored the British yacht “Thelas” as the winner.
2nd competition 1938
52 yachts met in Vlissingen to visit the host, the “Royal Dutch Motorboat Club”, in Amsterdam . The winner was the Brit Col. Bayldon, who had started with his boat in Stockholm .
3rd competition 1939
From July 24th to 28th, Liège welcomed the participants of the rally who had previously met in Ostend . The only German participant was Carl Voogd from Düsseldorf with his yacht "Schnups".
The first competitions after World War II ended in: Ghent (1947), Amsterdam (1948), Deauville (1949) and Liège (1950).
8th competition 1951
The finish point of the race was for the first time in Great Britain, 38 boats arrived in Great Yarmouth. For the first time no British boat won, the winner was the Swede C. Groschinski, who had covered 873.6 nautical miles on the voyage from Stockholm to Norwich with his yacht “Jagaren” . There were also two German boats.
9th competition 1952
The Helvetia by Paul Adam from Offenbach participated as the only German yacht competition and came as the best non-English yacht in the French Le Havre on.
10th competition 1953
Almost 50 participants from seven nations met in Dordrecht , the Netherlands , to call the port of the Düsseldorf Yacht Club as their destination on June 27th . In the rally, which ended on German waters for the first time, the Swede Vilen, who started with his yacht "Peter Duck" in Haparanda and had covered 1195 nautical miles, won. He received his award from Federal Transport Minister Hans-Christoph Seebohm .
11th competition 1955
Approx. 80 yachts, including two German participants, met in Rotterdam from July 29 to August 5, 1955 . The winner of the race was the Belgian M. Cook, who started with his boat “Allebo” in northern Sweden and covered 1,354 nautical miles in just under 120 hours.
12th competition 1958
On the occasion of the world exhibition in Brussels , the competition was carried out by the “Bruxelles Yacht Club”, supported by other associations from Antwerp and Ostend. The participants met on July 31st in Ostend and then drove to their destination via various cities by August 13th. The now 74-year-old Briton Quill, who had taken part in all previous races, was there. Four German boats were among the 68 participants. The winner was DH Reimer, chairman of the “Koninlijke Nederlandsche Motorboot Club”, who had covered 1071 nautical miles with his yacht “Cebus” on the journey from Stockholm to the destination.
13th competition 1960
No competition was held in 1959. On July 29, 1960, 58 boats, eight of them German , met in the Dutch town of Vlissingen . The winner was CE Ewald with his boat "Rheinteufel", which had covered 335 nautical miles on the journey from Mannheim to the destination. In the days that followed, the participants headed for several ports together until the event ended in Kampen .
14th competition 1961
The aim of the 1961 competition on August 12th was the Düsseldorf Yacht Club. There were 50 boats in the evaluation, including 18 German and four other nations. It was won by the Düsseldorf club member Oskar Trost, who had covered 3,255 nautical miles with his Merkur VII . The tourist program took the participants via Bonn to the Drachenfels .
15th competition 1964
The Pavillon d'Or was not held in 1962 and 1963. The meeting point for the 15th competition was set on July 20, 1964 in Ramsgate . The winner was the Swede Tore Comstedt, who despite the recently prescribed maximum speed of 9 knots with his boat Storebro Storö I / Adler I Casja. The program ended on July 30th in London.
16th competition 1965
The destination of this rally was Stockholm on August 3, 1965. The winner was the Swede Tore Comstedt, who covered 3529 nautical miles with his Storebro Storö III / Adler III Casja despite the recently prescribed maximum speed of 9 knots .
Competition 1968
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the British Yacht and Motor Boat Association, the competition took place in London from August 5th to 12th, 1968. The winner was again the Swede Tore Comstedt with his crew Lennart Ivarsson and navigator Helmer Hasselblad, who achieved the overall victory with their Storebro Storö IV / Adler IV Caisa VI . In the 18 days they covered a total of 2,252 miles from Sweden to England via Kiel (Germany), Kristiansand (Norway), Torshavn (Faroe Islands), Aberdeen (Scotland), the Helder (Holland) and Ostend (Belgium) in spite of the storm, before that Destination Ramsgate near London has been reached.
Competition 1971
This Sernfahrt led to Cologne for the opening of the Rheinau sports port. Around 40 yachts were guests at the Autbord- und Motoryachtclub in Cologne. The winner was Heinz Grade from Osnabrück, who had covered 3467 nautical miles with his boat Hein Doco .
Competition 1978
After a six-year break, another competition took place in 1978. The Düsseldorf yacht club celebrated its 70th birthday by organizing this competition. There were 24 boats in the evaluation. The winner was the Feltgen couple from Cologne with their boat Clochard . The smallest boat was a rubber dinghy with which the Büchler brothers had covered 2,500 kilometers on the Rhine between Lake Constance and the North Sea.
Competition 1989
The goal of the participants this year was the French city of Rouen on the Seine. The winner was the motor yacht Atlantis II with the owner E. Ranft from Wiesbaden.
Competition 2004
The aim of the competition was the French city of Givet on the Maas . The winner was the German driver Rüdiger Trupp with his yacht Lady Celaine .
Competition 2010
The destination of the rally in 2010 is Den Helder in the Netherlands . The central event took place from June 17 to 21, 2010. In class 1 (max. 20 km / h) the German driver Thomas Hering won, in class 2 (over 20 km / h, max. 10 m boat length) the German driver Rüdiger Trupp.
Competition 2011
The East Frisian city of Leer invited guests as the destination from August 1 to 7, 2011. Both last year's winners were able to repeat their success.
Individual evidence
- ↑ To. in: Die Yacht (Berlin), issue 37/1937, p. 20
- ↑ Unknown in: Die Yacht (Berlin), Heft 36/1938, p. 841
- ↑ Caption in: Die Yacht (Berlin), Heft 32/1939, p. 746
- ↑ Unknown in: Die Yacht (Bielefeld), Heft 8/1961, p. 304
- ↑ Unknown in: Die Yacht (Bielefeld), Heft 11/1951, p. 263
- ↑ Unknown in: Die Yacht (Bielefeld), Heft 2/1953, p. 48
- ↑ Dr. Lindemann in: Die Yacht (Bielefeld), issue 15/1953, pp. 326–327 + 334
- ↑ Unknown in: Die Yacht (Bielefeld), issue 18/1955, p. 440
- ↑ Unknown in: Die Yacht (Bielefeld), Heft 16/1958, p. 516
- ^ Unknown in: Die Yacht (Bielefeld), issue 19/1958, p. 604
- ↑ Dr. CE Timcke in: Die Yacht (Bielefeld), issue 18/1960, pp. 703–704
- ^ Angelmann in: Die Yacht (Bielefeld), Issue 17/1961, pp. 739-744
- ↑ Everard Bouws in: Die Yacht (Bielefeld), Heft 5/1964, p. 17
- ↑ Dr. Timcke in: Die Yacht (Bielefeld), issue 7/1965, p. 80
- ↑ Unknown in: Die Yacht (Bielefeld), issue 19/1971, p. 16
- ↑ Unknown in: Stander (Herford), Heft 11/1978, p. 6
- ↑ Unknown in: Die Yacht (Bielefeld), Heft 21/1978, pp. 33 + 34
- ↑ Marco Feltgen in: Magazine for water sports in the west (Monschau), issue 2/1990, p. 36
- ↑ UIM -Yearbook 2004/2005
- ↑ UIM -Yearbook 2010/2011
- ↑ "empty invited", articles in the magazine boats (Hamburg), Heft 10/2011, pp 14