Segel Club Baltic e.V. - 24105 Kiel

Segel Club Baltic e.V. (SCB) is one of Germany's oldest sailing clubs and has been based in Kiel since 1950. The clubhouse on piles in the Olympia harbour at Düsternbrook, with its rigging and youth rooms, is the centre of club life on the Kiel Fjord. With more than 400 members, around one fifth of them in the youth section, the club has been sailing on the Baltic Sea and beyond for over 140 years. An extensive fleet of club boats from Optimists via ILCA and RS Quest to the sporty J/80 supports training, free sailing and regattas. Berths in Düsternbrook, Stickenhörn and Schilksee plus the club's own winter storage in Wellingdorf complete the infrastructure. In 2024 the German Sailing Association recognised the SCB for outstanding training work; cooperations with Kiel schools and events such as opening and closing of the season, Förde Cup and Ærø-Rund shape the annual programme.

Kiel, Deutschland 400 Members

400 Members

History

Segel Club Baltic was founded on 2 September 1882 in Königsberg, East Prussia, initiated by manufacturer Louis Halfter and 17 other sailors. As early as 1899 the club acquired a floating clubhouse from a decommissioned pram of the state amber works, moored in the club harbour at Fort Friedrichsburg. As the club grew and sailing on the Pregel became more difficult, the sailing clubs Rhe and Baltic leased land at the Beek estuary in Contienen from 1914 and built berths, boat sheds and clubhouses; the move with numerous yachts took place in 1914. After the Second World War, five Baltic members met in Kiel in January 1950 at the initiative of Georg Kaul. On the club's 68th founding day, 2 September 1950, 26 members in the Seeburg's round room resolved to continue the club in Kiel. Since 1950 the SCB has been based in Kiel with berths in the sports harbours Düsternbrook, Stickenhörn and Schilksee. In the old Olympia harbour at Düsternbrook the club owns its clubhouse on piles in the harbour basin with rigging and youth rooms. On the east bank of the Kiel Fjord at Wellingdorf the SCB operates its own winter storage. The club is a founding shareholder of Sporthafen Kiel GmbH. In 2007 the SCB celebrated its 125th anniversary. Cooperations with Kiel schools have existed for almost 60 years. In 2024 Segel Club Baltic e.V. was one of 32 clubs nationwide recognised by the German Sailing Association for particularly successful training work. The youth section has received several awards, including the Sailing Kids prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Sailing Association and funding from the Peter Petersen Foundation for building an Optimist regatta group.

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Facilities

Clubhouse on piles in the Olympia harbour at Düsternbrook with rigging and youth rooms, berths in Düsternbrook, Stickenhörn and Schilksee, own winter storage in Wellingdorf, diverse club boat fleet with keel yachts, J/80, IF-Boot, RS Quest, ILCA and Optimists

Activities

Sailing training for juniors and adults, summer sailing courses, free sailing with club authorisation, regattas such as Ærø-Rund and Kieler Förde Cup, opening and closing of the season, cruising competition, Whitsun cruise, foundation festival, adult sailing group (SGE), youth sailing holidays and cooperations with Kiel schools

Youth section

Active youth section comprising around one fifth of the more than 400 members, voluntary sailing training from Optimists to the regatta group and multiple awards for youth development