Segel-Club Salzgitter e.V.
Segel-Club Salzgitter e.V. is a DSV-affiliated sailing club on Lake Salzgitter in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt with about 4,000 square metres of club grounds directly at the harbour. Members use pontoons with 56 water and 36 shore berths, a slipway, a club crane and a modern clubhouse with hall, youth room, workshop and race office. The programme ranges from Friday junior training and club regattas including the Salzgitter Opti Cup to powerboat licence courses for inland and coastal waters plus SKS. Founded in 1964, the club has become a fixture on the lake and is active in classes such as Optimist, OK dinghy, Europe, Finn Dinghy, 420 and J/70.
History
Segel-Club Salzgitter e.V. was founded in 1964. Four years later the founding members began building the clubhouse and pontoons on Lake Salzgitter. The sailing area is Lake Salzgitter, created from a gravel pit from 1960 and completed in 1975 at about 75 hectares of water. Until the 1980s only a few boat classes were admitted; club races often saw up to ten boats in a single class. Later the club opened up to more classes and yardstick scoring. Today it has about 4,000 square metres of harbour grounds, 56 water and 36 shore berths, a slipway and a crane for boats up to 1.6 tonnes. For decades Michael Klügel has represented the club internationally in the Finn Dinghy and OK dinghy; Nadja Kopp continued success in the youth national team and at world championships in the Europe class. Club juniors raced in the German Youth Sailing League on the J/70 and qualified for the second German Sailing Bundesliga for the first time. Each year the club hosts the regional Salzgitter Opti Cup among other events. It is affiliated to the DSV, the Lower Saxony sailing federation, the South Lower Saxony racing community and the Salzgitter district sports association. Membership is between 200 and 220.
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Facilities
About 4,000 m² of harbour club grounds with pontoons, 56 water berths, 36 shore berths, slipway and crane up to 1.6 t. Clubhouse with bar area, kitchen, hall, youth room, changing rooms, sanitary facilities, race office, workshop and storage; club-owned boats and Marina 23 as committee boat.
Activities
Junior training, recreational training, club regattas, Salzgitter Opti Cup, Splash Cup, city championship, end-of-season race, Youth Sailing League and Sailing Bundesliga participation, inland and coastal powerboat licence training plus SKS, use of club boats.
Youth section
Active junior section with Friday training 16:00-19:00 during the sailing season, winter theory and junior certificate; Optimist tuition from about age six and participation in events such as the Salzgitter Opti Cup.
Boating license training
Available: 1
Theory from winter to spring, practice on the lake until season end