Segelclub vom Greifensee SCvG
The Segelclub vom Greifensee SCvG in Niederuster is the oldest sailing club on Lake Greifen and offers excellent conditions for sailing on this protected Swiss lake. The club grounds next to the lakeside baths include a clubhouse, jetty, lakeside terrace with barbecue, inner and outer dry berths with launching ramps, a boat hall with winter storage, and a buoy field of 54 buoys provided by the City of Uster and managed by the club. Junior club boats (Optimists, ILCA and 420s) and a club yacht of type M750 for leisure sailing and practice sessions complete the offering. Junior training on Wednesday afternoons, annual yardstick regattas (opening sail, summer and autumn regatta, closing sail) and membership of Swiss Sailing and the Zurich Sailing Federation shape club life. Founded in 1943 and with over 230 members, the SCvG is one of the larger sailing clubs in the Canton of Zurich and is expressly committed to protecting Lake Greifen.
History
The Segelclub vom Greifensee SCvG in Niederuster was founded in 1943. It is the oldest sailing club on Lake Greifen and, with over 200 members, one of the larger sailing clubs in the Canton of Zurich. That the hobby can today be pursued at a site with good infrastructure is thanks above all to the great efforts of previous generations. It was sailors from Winterthur who brought sailing to Lake Greifen in 1943; the local farmers of Niederuster are said to have called out sceptically that these strangers with their home-built dinghies would only drown, going out in all weather under full sail and without life jackets. It took longer still for Lake Greifen to be accepted as a venue for sailing regattas: hardened racers from Lake Zurich claimed one could not sail on this puddle. Even when the first major races were held, for example the Swiss championship of the Pirate class in 1963, the club's race officer of the day had to defend the lake again and again, insisting that one most certainly could sail on it. In 1946 an entry fee of 50 rappen was charged and crews had to appear in uniform blue-and-white sailing kit. Starts were from the shore, and if the wind died during a race the motor vessels Heimat and Greif were quickly on hand. A founding member recalls that every rope was lashed together so that no one had to row back. Sporting success underpins the story: the club twice produced Olympic athletes, namely Yvor Ganahl on a Finn at Tallinn (USSR) in 1980 and Markus Bryner on a Tornado at Barcelona in 1992. In summer 2018 the SCvG celebrated its 75th anniversary.
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Facilities
Clubhouse with seating area, kitchen, changing rooms, WC and shower; lakeside terrace with barbecue and jetty; inner and outer dry berths with launching ramps; boat hall and winter storage; buoy field with 54 buoys; dinghy pool; club yacht M750.
Activities
Junior training, yardstick club regattas (opening sail, summer regatta, autumn regatta, closing sail), sailing practice and leisure sailing on the club yacht, berth and buoy management, environmental protection on Lake Greifen.
Youth section
Active junior training from spring to summer holidays on Wednesday afternoons with club boats (Optimists, ILCA, 420s), led by Tobias Hermann; participation in the SCvG summer regatta.
Guest berths
Yes, buoy berths by application