Start sailing - Start boating

Information & advice for beginners in hall 15 stand D22

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You are a beginner and have thousands of questions in your head? The central questions of boating beginners will be answered by expert in individual sessions for all boating enthusiasts. From training and boating licenses to equipment, safety on the water and insurance issues in Hall 15, you will find answers to all your questions.

In Hall 15 of boot Düsseldorf, under the motto "start sailing - start boating", beginners can step into the world of sailing and motorboats. In addition to lots of information on where, when, how and with what prerequisites you can succumb to the fascination of boats, it is above all experts who attract visitors to the information center for beginners.

Expert advice on the spot

All newcomers can get advice and information. Find out how easy it is to become a powerboater; with what budgets a charter vacation or a boat purchase is possible; how many great options there are to spend your free time or vacations on the water alone, with family or even with friends.

Why only dream of watersports?

In our service area in hall 15 you will find all the necessary information to help you get started in sailing or motor boating.All-round advice for beginners and newcomers

Sailing schools
Chartering, but how?
Licenses
Safely insured
Sailing in a club
boot Sailing School

Sailing schools

The “Verband Deutscher Sportbootschulen e.V. “(VDS) is the federal professional association for sailing, surfing and motorboat training. It represents commercial training institutions with the aim of ensuring a high quality of training. This includes well thought-out teaching material and impeccable watercraft for practical training. Anyone who goes to a VDS school as a water sports beginner knows that they will get qualified VDS-trained instructors here for the practical training.

Often the way to the nearest sailing school is much closer and also the start into sailing much easier than thought: There are over 200 certified VDS schools in Germany, including some abroad.

Licenses

Learn to sail, windsurf and kitesurf with the German Sailing Association (Deutscher Segler-Verband). With over 1,200 clubs throughout Germany, we have the right offer for everyone. Our clubs and the sailing schools we have approved will train you: on dinghy, fat boat, catamaran, surfboard or kiteboard - from the small ABCs of sailing to special navigation and weather skills for regattas or long tours. We are also the right contact for questions about sports boat licences and certificates of competency, because we take the examinations on behalf of the Ministry of Transport.

Surely insured

Those who want to experience water sports should take care of insurance in good time, because it can happen too quickly that the fender was not in the right place after all, the jetty was tighter than estimated or a turn fails and ends up in the stern of another water sportsman. Support or help with the small print is available from Europe's leading specialist for yacht and boat insurance - Pantaenius. Because the standards learned, such as from car insurance, cannot be easily transferred to the world of water sports.

Sailing in a club

The "Club der Kreuzer-Abteilung (CKA)" (Cruiser Section Club) is open to all sailors and motorboat enthusiasts who do not belong to a local club. So, if you want to prove your talent at regattas even as a beginner, you can do so under the CKA stand, because the cruiser department club is a member of the German Sailing Association, which is a prerequisite for regattas. But the club offers even more: whoever decides to become a member (annual fee 46 euros) of the CKA is automatically a member of the DSV Cruiser Department and can access all the information and services of the DSV KA. This is especially interesting for charterers who want to explore different areas. There are also various discounts - for example from the yacht insurer Pantaenius.

Join the boat Sailing School

Hoist the sails, set a course and the sailing adventure can begin. In Hall 15, the boot Sailing School is waiting with a 25x10m water basin and wind machines. Under the expert supervision of experienced sailing instructors from Unterbacher See, pupils learn the first steps in dealing with sails and wind. Optimists - the classic training boat for children and young people - are available for this purpose. Most sailors start their career in this boat, because the "Opti" is unsinkable, can only capsize with difficulty, is relatively easy to sail and you can really have fun.