The 18 sailing clubs in the top league in Germany sailed the third event of the Deutsche Segel-Bundesliga in Warnemunde, Germany from July 5-7 on the Baltic Sea. After suffering from incredibly light winds on the first two days of the regatta, the forecasted 20-30 knot winds on Sunday thankfully moderated quickly in the morning so that the regatta PRO could get in a round-robin of just 10 races in the end. As a result, it was the Norddeutscher Regatta Verein team that took the series to improve their overall standings in the DSBL series to third overall. On the first day, sailing was postponed until nearly 5pm in the early evening. At that point, a series of 16 races were quickly run for the sailors. The patience of the sailors of the Deutsche Segel-Bundesliga was being put to the test. “I do not know when I sailed the last time that it was so boring,” said Phil Blinn from the Deutscher Touring YC. “But, after 1700 hrs, we did go racing and it was really, really exciting! Plus, it was light until nearly 2000 hours, so it was no problem. The sailing near sunset was beautiful!” The second day of the regatta proved to be good for some teams, and not so good for other teams. In short, the weather conditions were fantastic and the sailors were grinning from ear-to-ear such that each race produced more drama than the next. Each shift, each puff produced enormous changes in the team rankings. Challenging, but fun for all. After the dust settled, it was the defending champions from Hamburg who threw down the best cards and posted a strong comeback to win the third act of the DSBL. NRVs two bullets in their last two races secured their win. “My team just sailed sensational. Today was the perfect ending, and it was bursting with fun with the wind and the wave,” says helmsman Johannes Polgar, who again sailed with Niklas Meyerinck, Florian Weser and Miklas Meyer. Behind them in second place was the Württembergische YC and the overall DSBL league leaders, the Deutscher Touring YC (DTYC), in third place. After the first three regattas, the overall DSBL league standings show that Deutsche Touring YC is in first with a 1-4-3 record for 8 points, followed by Flensburger SC’s team with a 2-6-7 tally for 15 points, and in third is Norddeutscher Regatta Verein’s crew with a 7-13-1 record for 21 points. Tied with NRV in the overall standings is Verein Seglerhaus am Wansee with a 9-2-10 score of 21 points, and just behind them to round out the top five are Chiemsee YC with a 4-1-17 for 22 points beating on a tie-break the Segelkameradschaft Wappen von Bremen crew with an 11-5-6 score for 22 points as well. The next date for the DSBL is Travemunde Week from July 18-20 on the Baltic Sea. Thanks to the partnership between SAP and the Travemunde Week, the race of the German Bundesliga sailing will be a “live broadcast” to the mobile TV studio and the SAP Sail Cube for the spectators and fans. For more J/70 Deutsche Segel-Bundesliga sailing information, visit http://segelbundesliga.de/.