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in Germany (after

Kiel Week The Kiel Week (german: Kieler Woche) or Kiel Regatta is an annual sailing event in Kiel, the capital of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the largest sailing event in Europe, and also one of the largest Volksfeste in Germany, attracting ...

). It is held since 1892 by the end of July at the traditional seaside resort

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located at the Bay of Lübeck of the

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. The main organizer of this event is the Yacht Club of Lübeck. In 2007 there will be around 3000 sailors participating in the 118. race week with more than 800 boats.

Participating classes of sailing dinghies

Contender, 420,

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, 49er,

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, javelin

Participating classes of keel boats and yachts

Nordic Folkboat The Nordic Folkboat (Swedish: Nordisk Folkbåt) is a Swedish sailboat that was designed by and Tord Sundén as a racer-cruiser and first built in 1942. Even though Sundén drafted the plans with design ideas provided by Iversen, Sundén was ...

, Dragon,

J/22 The J/22 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Rod Johnstone as a one-design racer and first built in 1983.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 118-119. Houghton Mif ...

J/24 The J/24 is an international One-Design and Midget Ocean Racing Club trailerable keelboat class built by J/Boats and defined by World Sailing. The J/24 was created to fulfill the diverse needs of recreational sailors such as cruising, one d ...

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Participating classes of sailing dinghies

Participating classes of keel boats and yachts

See also

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