Segelclub RHE began when Ernst Burow, then a high school student, got a fishing boat as a present and needed a few friends to sail it.

[2] After World War II, following Soviet occupation and the expulsion of Germans from East Prussia, the yacht club moved to Blankenese, a suburb of Hamburg.

Segelclub RHE has a fleet of Optimists sailing in the Alster, a quiet tributary of the Elbe, on which many of the present day skippers learned.

Segelclub RHE's fleet includes also different types of large sailboats, so that there is room for everyone to learn and participate at every level.

Therefore, it favours socialising as much as sailing and it regularly organizes social events at its club house by the river Elbe.