Trans-Ocean

"Trans-Ocean" Association for the Promotion of Deep Sea Sailing (TO)
legal form	registered association
founding	October 20, 1968 in Idstein
Seat	Cuxhaven ( ⊙ coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 43.2 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 58 ″  E )
motto	The sea in the heart.
purpose	Promotion of deep sea sailing
Chair	Peter Wiedekamm
Members	4,500
Website	www.trans-ocean.org

The "Trans-Ocean" association for the promotion of deep sea sailing e. V. is a sailing club for blue water and cruising sailors .

history

On October 20, 1968, 17 women and men came together in Idstein to realize the idea of ​​the architect and single-handed sailor Claus Hehner , namely to specifically promote deep sea sailing. Trans Ocean was supposed to fill a gap and support those ocean-going sailors who could not expect such support from other sources, but who wanted to take part in ocean regattas or otherwise practice deep-sea sailing on the world's oceans.

The specific reason was an idea by Claus Hehner, who wanted to take part in the OSTAR transatlantic race, which takes place every four years , but had no money. Other clubs that were active in the German Sailing Association saw the initiative quite skeptically at the beginning. Nevertheless, Trans Ocean was accepted as an associate member. Since Hehner was active in the Cuxhaven sailing association, the city at the mouth of the Elbe became the domicile of the new association. In the meantime, the focus of club life is no longer in regatta sport, but in long-distance sailing, although regattas are still financially supported.

Chairperson

1968-1989:: Dr. iur. Jörn-Ulrich Bachmann , senior district director

1989–2005: Helmut Bellmer, professional radio operator, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit

2005–2011: Bernd Luetgebrune, lawyer and notary

2012–2019: Martin Birkhoff, landscape architect and circumnavigator.

since November 2019: Peter Wiedekamm, circumnavigator

Benefits for members

The association maintains a worldwide network of bases to support members on long journeys. The bases are run by German-speaking base managers on a voluntary basis. They offer local information to Trans-Ocean members and often help sailors with communication, for example through postal services.

Trans-Ocean collects and publishes location reports from members who are on long journeys. This enables relatives and friends to follow the journey. A similar service is offered in cooperation with the Intermar amateur radio association.

For members who own their own ship, the association issues a stand permit as unofficial, association- related proof of ownership. Members may lead the club stand. In 2011, the club's own boat register recorded 3,522 yachts; in 2016 it was 2,910.

At times, the association brokered group health insurance that was geared towards the needs of long-distance sailors. The processing of this insurance was the subject of criminal proceedings in 2016. From 2012 to 2016 internal disputes shaped the club life. The association has been sued several times by individual members and several board critics have been excluded. After a decision by the general meeting, the former chairman of the association, Bernd Luetgebrune, was excluded from the association due to legal costs that were not reimbursed. Against this background, the Cuxhavener Nachrichten summarized in November 2016: " However, the association has lost some of its former esteem due to years of quarrels about the work of the board."

Apart from an office there are neither club rooms nor a club harbor.

Trans Ocean Prize

Once a year, the Trans-Ocean Prize is awarded for a special achievement in ocean sailing. In addition to the Schlimbach Prize , which was discontinued in 2004, and the Golden Compass of the sailing comradeship “The coat of arms of Bremen” , the Trans-Ocean Prize is currently the highest honor in German sailing. The prize will be awarded towards the end of the year following the annual general meeting in Cuxhaven . The winner will be kept secret until the award ceremony. In addition, the association awards the “Trans Ocean Medal” for particularly sporting achievements, the “Circumnavigator Award” and the “Silver Kugelbake”. The latter for non-stop trips from North America to Cuxhaven.

The award was created by the then founding member and artist Arno Knof, who also designed the medals. The winners will only receive a framed picture with an engraved plaque. After the award ceremony, the prize itself used to be in the office of the mayor of Cuxhaven, then for a while in the Cuxhaven fishing museum, today it is in the TO office.

Horst-Helmut Wind was a juror for the award for a long time .

year	Award winners	yacht	route	Duration	travel
1970	Ingeborg von Heister	Ultima Ratio (35 foot trimaran according to plans by Arthur Piver)			North Atlantic crossing, one-handed in both directions
1971	Folkmar Count	Dadztoy (6.30 m, self-made)		88 days	North Atlantic crossing New York - Cuxhaven, one-handed.
1972	Jörgen Meyer	Paloma (sloop, 10.5 m)	27,000 nm	50 weeks	German speed record for circumnavigating the world on the Passat route, which is unbeaten to this day (2009)
1973	Gerd Müller	Raireva	30,000 nm	7 years	Circumnavigation of the world from August 1966 to October 1973.
1974	Reinhard Laucht	Peter of Danzig	28,500 nm		Skipper at the Whitbread Round the World Race 1973/1974
1975	Claus Hehner	Mex (35 foot GRP sloop)	6,038 nm	52d 16h 18m	Trans-Pacific one-handed regatta (San Francisco - Okinawa)
1976	Götz "Jacky" Schreiber	Joshua (Najad 900)		102 days	From the Azores via Newfoundland along the west coast of Greenland to Thule (78 ° 15 'N), as far as no sports sailor before him. Return non-stop from Greenland to Heligoland.
1977	Hans-Wolf Steinig	Seven Seas	31,000 nm		World tour from October 1972 to 1977
1978	Hans-Dieter Lamle	Kattegat	13,500 nm		From Falmouth one-handed through the Strait of Magellan to Punta Arenas and from there through the Panama Canal to Florida
1979	Wilfried Erdmann	Kathena	30,223 nm	421 days at sea	First German one-handed circumnavigation
1980	Burghard Pieske	Shangri-La (DIY catamaran)		ten years	Circumnavigation. First east-west circumnavigation of Cape Horn by a yacht flying the German flag
1981	Ernst Bullmer	Bummler X (Catamaran Apache 42)		3 years	Circumnavigation on the Passat route
1982	Erich Wilts , Heide Wilts	Freydis (15 m modified Reinke Hydra)	23,000 nm	11 months	Antarctica, Cape Horn, Antarctica, Patagonia, Galapagos Islands, Panama Canal, Caribbean, Cuxhaven
1983	Richard Konkolski (CZE)	Nike II	30,000 nm	213 days	For participation in the BOC Challenge (one-handed in stages around the world)
1984	Theo Biesemann with son Jörg	Jönathe N			Circumnavigation of the world from August 1981 to autumn 1984, Cape Horn from west to east, capsizing at Cape Horn on March 17, 1983, breakage of both masts, first with emergency rig, then with emergency mast (telegraph mast from Port Stanley) to the Azores.
1985	Wilfried Erdmann	Kathena Nui (Dübbel & Jesse Nordsee 34 made of aluminum)	30,183 nm	271 days	First one-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world by a German in a west-east direction
1986	Dieter Kowalewski	Snowball (10 m steel Taranga)		3 months	North Atlantic trip, including Plymouth-USA as part of a regatta, youngest prize winner at the age of 25
1987	Reimar Böttger	Pleiades	17,700 nm	145 days	February 12, 1987 from Helgoland non-stop up to 37.5 ° S, via St. Helena to Cape Farvel / Greenland, Jan Mayen. September 2nd, 1987 arrival in Lesum.
1988	ASV Berlin	Walrus III	28,500 nm		On July 31, 1987 from Cuxhaven to Australia for the 200th anniversary. Back in Cuxhaven on July 9, 1988.
1989	Wolfgang Quix	Jeantex T 3000 (40 foot sloop by Georg Nissen)			For his constant presence in international high seas regattas
1990	Gudrun Calligaro	Girl (Dufour Arpèrge)	31,843 nm	338 days at sea	First German single-handed circumnavigator. Brest, Cape Town, Tasman Sea, Panama Canal, Brest
1991	Rollo Gebhard	Solveig IV ( Hallberg-Rassy 42)		8 years	Emden, from Cairns (Australia) non-stop to Emden, together with his wife Angelika
1992	Gerd Engel	Sposmoker I (15 m self-made catamaran)	5,457 nm	69 days	One-hand trip into the pack ice, north of Svalbard
1993	Hans Richter	Mariele (Standfast 47)	22,000 nm	402 days	One-handed from Europe to the South Atlantic and South Pacific around Cape Horn and back to the Mediterranean
1994	Norbert Schirra	Amateur (11 m self-made steel)		7 years	One-handed circumnavigation of the world, 1987 to 1994, despite illness with long single passages and a detour to Alaska
1995	Paul Maier	Matangi (41 feet self-made catamaran)		4 years	Circumnavigation of the world with woman and child via the Strait of Magellan and the Cape of Good Hope
1996	Hans Zitzelsberger	Zulu (Phantom 30)		5 years	Two circumnavigations of the world between 1987 and 1994. The first one-handed, the second one-handed. At the end of 70 years.
1997	Detlef von Schmeling	Jenny von Westphalen (13.4 m wooden boat built in 1938)	46,000 nm	2 years	Circumnavigation around Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope. July 1995 to June 1997.
1998	Gerd Engel	Sposmoker II (18.4 m self-made catamaran)	22,000 nm		Cuxhaven, South America, Antarctica, non-stop Ushuaia (Argentina) to Cuxhaven, then to the pack ice near Spitsbergen.
1999	Sailing companionship "The coat of arms of Bremen"	Coat of arms of Bremen III	30,000 nm	12 months	Bremerhaven, Caribbean, Panama Canal, South America, Cape Horn Passage, Caribbean, US East Coast, Greenland, Iceland, Bremerhaven
2000	Reinhard Bellingrodt	Lady II (Contest 36)	22,000 nm	11 months	One-handed circumnavigation of the world - Gibraltar, Atlantic, Pacific, South Seas, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Greece
2001	Wilfried Erdmann	Kathena Nui (Dübbel & Jesse Nordsee 34)	31,362 nm	343 days	First one-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world by a German in an east-west direction
2002	Erich Wilts	Freydis (15 m modified Reinke Hydra)		12 years	Two circumnavigations of the world and Antarctic circumnavigation with his wife Heide and changing charter guests
2003	Uwe Röttgering	FANFAN! (40 foot aluminum cutter from Dick Zaal)	50,213 nm	26 months	Hooksiel, Jan Mayen, Greenland, Arctic Ocean Islands, New Zealand, Midway Atoll, Chile, Cape Horn, South Georgia, Cape Town, Newport, Faroe Islands, Hooksiel. The award winner returned the award in 2012 in protest against the club's management.
2004	Johanna Zimmermann, Otto Max Zimmermann	Astronotus II (Reinke Hydra)			Lisbon, Fernando de Norhona, Cape Town, Kerguelen, Tasmania, Australia, Cairns, New Caledonia, Alaska, Vancouver, Marquesas, Tuamotos, Tahiti, South America, Cabo Virgines (Chile), Azores, Plymouth, Wilhelmshaven
2005	Bernt Lüchtenborg	Auryn (Moody 42)	52,000 nm	1850 days	With a decision of January 11, 2010, Lüchtenborg's award was revoked by the board. The reason for this was incorrect information about the itinerary. Lüchtenborg could not provide evidence of a trip to Antarctica, nor that he made large parts of the trip, as claimed, one-handed.
2006	Ingrid Pfeiffer, Timm Pfeiffer	Sunshine (12 m steel sloop)	55,805 nm	9½ years	Four equator crossings, three Atlantic crossings
2007	Manfred Jabbusch	White Which ( Hallberg-Rassy 352)		7 years	Trinidad , Kerguelen , Fremantle , Trinidad
2008	Kathrin Meinert, Stefan Post	Sidartha (11.5 m Feltz Skorpion II)	38,914 nm	4 years	Barefoot route , Cape of Good Hope , Brazilian, Chilean channels (Beagle Channel, Puerto Edén, Gulf of Sorrows)
2009	Boris Herrmann , Felix Oehme	Beluga Racer (Akilaria Class 40)	30,000 nm	146 days at sea	Victory at the Portimão Global Ocean Race
2010	Klaus Häussler, Maria Häussler	Ludos Amoris (Ketsch, Hallberg Rassy 41)			Pacific trip
2011	Susanne Huber-Curphey	So long	85,157 nm	11 years	Crossed an ocean 20 times
2012	Michael Herbst	Tanoa (Kat, Privilège 37)	47,000 nm	14 years	Circumnavigation, south around Australia, partly one-handed
2013	Marietta van Bakel (NL) and Paulus Kamstra (NL)	Nije Faam (Germania 40)	50,000 nm	8 years	Circumnavigation, Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope, Antarctica and river stages
2014	Hans-Rolf Rauert and Barbara Köberle	Resolute (Reinke Super Secura)		4 years	Lübeck, Cuxhaven, Cape Verde, Brazil, Cape Horn, Easter Island, Fiji, Australia, South Africa, Brazil
2015	Henrik Masekowitz	Croix du sud, Akilaria Class 40	1,200 nm	5d 03h 36m	One-handed record at the 2015 AZAB regatta from England to the Azores
2016	Mareike Guhr	La medianoche (Catamaran)	45,000 nm	4½ years	Circumnavigation, 37 countries visited, 140 fellow sailors
2017	Susanne Huber-Curphey	Nehaj (39 foot aluminum long keel, Koopmans design)	- sm	- days	Crossing the Northwest Passage. One-handed as the first woman.
2018	Szymon Kuczynski (POL)	Atlantic Puffin (22 foot GRP yacht)	approx. 29,000 nm	270 days	One-handed non-stop circumnavigation in the smallest boat to date - Plymouth to Plymouth
2019	Asia Pajkowska (POL)	FANFAN! (40 foot aluminum cutter from Dick Zaal)	approx. 29,000 nm	216 days	One-handed circumnavigation of the world non-stop, first Polish woman - Plymouth to Plymouth

Trans-Ocean Magazine

The membership magazine "Trans-Ocean, Association for the Promotion of Deep Sea Sailing" appears every three months. In addition to news from the club, from the bases and from the sailing scene, it contains reports from the worldwide sailing areas, which are often written by the members. The magazine has been published since 1971. The issues have been numbered consecutively since then. The magazine is also referred to with the secondary titles "Trans-Ocean", "Mitteilungsblatt" and later "TO".

Memberships

The "Trans-Ocean" association for the promotion of deep sea sailing e. V. is a member of the following associations and clubs:

• German Sailing Association
• State Sports Association of Lower Saxony
• Sailing Association of Lower Saxony
• Sport in Cuxhaven e. V.

literature

• Trans-Ocean Magazine ISSN  1433-4798

Web links

• Trans-Ocean e. V. Association for the Promotion of Deep Sea Sailing (official website)
• INTERMAR amateur marine radio e. V. (official site)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Articles of Association of the Association. (PDF) In: trans-ocean.org. September 13, 2016, accessed October 30, 2019 . 
2. ^ Klaus Fohrmann: Extended cash check of the Trans-Ocean Association for the promotion of deep sea sailing. (PDF; 860 kB) November 19, 2012, archived from the original on December 24, 2017 ; accessed on May 30, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Carsten Kemmling: leadership crisis at Trans Ocean. Trans Ocean: Chairman Luetgebrune resigns after alleging financial irregularities. In: segelreporter.com. SegelReporter, December 27, 2011, accessed May 30, 2020 . 
4. ^ Johannes Erdmann: First chairman resigns. In: www.yacht.de. Yacht Online, December 27, 2011, accessed May 30, 2020 . 
5. ↑ The new board of the TO is elected. In: www.trans-ocean.eu. Trans-Ocean, February 18, 2012, archived from the original on February 22, 2012 ; accessed on May 30, 2020 . 
6. ↑ TO bases worldwide. In: www.trans-ocean.org. Trans-Ocean, accessed May 30, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Thomas Sassen: Public prosecutor finds new material. In: www.cnv-medien.de. Cuxhavener Nachrichten, January 18, 2014, accessed May 30, 2020 . 
8. ^ Thomas Sassen: Round-the-world sailor meeting in Cuxhaven. In: www.cnv-medien.de. Cuxhavener Nachrichten, November 17, 2016, accessed on May 30, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Volker J. Bürck: Lonely and yet together across the oceans. In: www.welt.de. Die Welt Online, March 9, 2008, accessed May 30, 2020 . 
10. ↑ "In the future only on foot!" Historical archive - No. 276 from November 27, 1972 - page 22. In: www.abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt , November 27, 1972, archived from the original on July 28, 2014 ; accessed on May 30, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Wilfried Erdmann: The magical route. As the first German alone and non-stop around the world . 3. Edition. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 3-7688-0787-8 .
12. ↑ Wilfried Erdmann: Alone against the wind. Around the world non-stop in 343 days. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-7688-1343-6 .
13. ↑ Uwe Röttgering: The sea is mine . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-7688-1575-7 .
14. ↑ Lasse Johannsen: Clear priorities . In: Yacht . No. 23 , 2008, p. 118-125 .
15. ↑ Maren Reese-Winne: With humor and courage to the Antarctic. In: www.cnv-medien.de. Cuxhavener Nachrichten, November 25, 2013, accessed on May 30, 2020 . 
16. ^ The Trans-Ocean Prices. In: www.trans-ocean.org. Trans-Ocean, accessed May 30, 2020 . 
17. ↑ Kirsten Panzer: Trans Ocean awards coveted ocean sailing prizes 2016. In: www.trans-ocean.org. Trans-Ocean, November 20, 2016, accessed May 30, 2020 .