Akademischer Segel-Verein in Kiel e.V.
Akademischer Segel-Verein in Kiel e.V. has been based on the Kiellinie since 1910, enabling students to sail at a high level on Kiel Fjord, the Baltic Sea and worldwide. The boathouse between the CAU rowing and canoe centre and the First Kiel Rowing Club provides a pontoon, workshop and clubhouse for a fleet of keelboats, dinghies and the flagship Peter von Danzig. After-work sailing, weekend trips, regattas such as the ASV104 Baltic Challenge and major offshore voyages shape the programme; no prior sailing experience is required to learn. The motto Impossibile Solum – making the impossible possible – stands for Atlantic crossings, circumnavigations and the planned new 17-metre club flagship.
History
Akademischer Segel-Verein in Kiel was founded on 11 July 1910 by Prof. Niemeyer and seven students as a university-affiliated student association at Kiel University – not as a fraternity, so fraternity members could also sail. As early as 1911 the club sailed with Regina, Fuchs, Seeteufel and the dinghy Sprotte; the first major voyage went to St Petersburg in 1912. The First World War took a heavy toll, but after 1918 the club revived with boats such as Käppen Otto, Tümmler and Regina II and later moved into the blockhouse near the university bridge. After the Second World War, when Kiel was destroyed and all boats were lost, ASV members saved the Danzig Peter von Danzig and in 1952 founded today's post-war ASV around this vessel. In 1956 the alumni associations from Danzig, Rostock, Berlin and Kiel united under a shared constitution; Peter von Danzig won the Schlimbach Prize three times, circumnavigated the globe three times and took part in the 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race. Women students have sailed actively since the 1970s; the club now has 428 ASV members aged 19 to 98, including around 60 sailing students in the active section. The current Peter von Danzig, in service since 1991, logged more than 200,000 nautical miles; for the future the ASV is planning a new 17-metre flagship with Judel/Vrolijk.
Information
Youth section
Students at Kiel's universities form the active section; sailing can be learned without prior experience, with a patent system from dinghies to Peter skipper.
Boating license training
Winter semester theory course