Ex-Champions League winner Tutzing at the lowest point

The German Touring Yacht Club Tutzing is facing difficult times in the 1st sailing Bundesliga.

The former Champions League winner fell to the bottom of the table on matchday three in Kiel.

Starnberg / Tutzing

- When Maximilian Weis was presented with his crew's certificate, the team boss of the German Touring Yacht Club must have felt like the father of a child who was at war with the grades at school. On the third matchday of the sailing Bundesliga in Kiel, the Tutzing team rained six sixth places, four times fifth place and one disqualification.

It went best in the second and sixth races, when the team around helmsman Lena Stückl finished fourth. “I'm pretty flabbergasted,” admitted Weis. He hadn't even imagined such an overall result in his worst nightmares. Halfway through the season, the two-time German champion is bobbing in last place in the overall table. The distance to rank 14 and the secured midfield is 15 points. “It's something we have to swallow,” admits Weis.

As in the past two years, the DTYC had focused on the upheaval this season. Lena Stückl took over the responsibility at the tiller, but she didn’t get past 17th place in Überlingen and ended up in Kiel, beaten in 18th place. Theresa Löffler was also 16th in Hamburg. The reasons for the crash of the former Champions League -Weights could not yet fathom: "If we knew that, we would change it." So the Tutzinger slowly sail towards the descent.

In view of the questionable results, Weis avoided speaking of bad luck or bad weather.

“You can also have a pitch-black day,” he clarified, “but it doesn't happen three times in a row”.

The problem seems to be more in the system.

Such a problem is difficult to fix only during the season.

"Now we have pressure", the team boss knows that the next three game days will degenerate into a pure nerve.

On the upcoming matchday in Berlin, Julian Stückl, a skipper who has seen the club's great triumphs, will take over the helm.

However, this change was already clear before Kiel.

“The last three events have to be fought properly.” Weis expects his sailors to perform differently than before.

"We can't go on like this."

In the north bay of Lake Starnberg one sees the development in the south with concern. "We wish the gentlemen that they pull out of there", Ilja Wolf sends best wishes to Tutzing. The crew of the team director from the Bavarian Yacht Club just managed to get around the corner in Kiel. Nils Sternbeck, who had to step in at short notice for the sick helmsman Felix Kaiser, steered Bayern to twelfth place. Wolf was by and large satisfied with the performance of his quartet: “They sailed really well.” Only when the team had three sixth places in a row did the team boss despair. Once his sailors received a penalty, in the other two flights their gennaker slipped into the water. "Those are the blows in the neck that you get there," said Wolf,who therefore mourned a better performance afterwards.

While the Bavarian got away with a black eye, it rained wet in the Munich yacht club. Last season, Manuel Wunderle seemed to be able to perform miracles in the same place with first place, this time he finished 16th and penultimate place. Like many other teams from the south, he and his newly formed crew were not up to the northern lights, which had been preparing for a long time in Schilksee.