Taking place in the Bay of Kiel, this annual event is one of the largest and most prestigious sailing regattas in the world.

[2] The founders of the original Hamburger Yacht-Club were yacht racing and cruising enthusiasts who joined the Deutscher Segler-Verband four weeks after establishing the club.

Five years after having been established the club had 343 members and 87 boats; 46 competitions had been organized in which a total of 922 sailcraft took part.

Between 1934 and 1935, during Nazi times, all sailing clubs in Germany lost their autonomy and were arbitrarily joined to departments of the Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (DRL), later renamed Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (NSRL), like the Wassersportverband (Watersports Association).

Among other achievements, he was able to convince the British occupation authorities to give back the seized sailing craft to the club.