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boot Düsseldorf - Upswing for the industry

boot Düsseldorf had to take a forced break for three years due to the coronavirus. This year's success of the world's largest indoor water sports trade fair shows that the water sports industry was not in the doldrums during this time, but rather got a real boost. The organisers draw a positive balance after nine days of the trade fair - and we from marineforum were also at boot Düsseldorf for the first time and very successfully. Innovations and trends in the water sports industryThe crises have not harmed the water sports industry - quite the opposite. The industry has received a strong boost and has also developed positively thanks to new innovations. These innovations in the industry characterised the face of boot Düsseldorf....

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#meerverstehen at the Boot in Düsseldorf

With news, images, reports and podcasts from the military-maritime world, marineforum has been keeping its readers up to date for over 50 years. Founded in the 1970s as a monthly magazine, marineforum is now a firm favourite among specialist publications. On the online portal and social media channels, which have been in operation for over 2 years, tradition meets the latest news and today reaches more than 70,000 readers per month. It is written and edited by experts for experts, by passionate sailors for passionate sailors, for coastal children and world connoisseurs, for interested parties, sailors and non-sailors. It has been produced for many years by Mittler-Report-Verlag, part of Tamm Media...

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Blue helmet corvette "Erfurt" back in Warnemünde - with 230 days at sea under her belt

230 days of absence: Corvette Erfurt back in home port The corvette Erfurt is back in home port after 230 days of absence. Today, Sunday 18 December, the German Navy's last homecoming arrived in its home port. The crew, led by Corvette Captain Dohnke, has completed the approximately 4,000 nautical mile transit from the Levant to the Bay of Mecklenburg and is back in Warnemünde in time for Christmas. The corvette Erfurt originally left Warnemünde in February 2022 and was intended for the mandated deployment under the UN flag. The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine necessitated a change at short notice, so that...

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Maritime Convention of the DMI

Prominent speakers and concentrated expertise! On 8 November 2022, the Maritime Convention took place for the fifteenth time at the Schleswig-Holstein State Representation in Berlin, after two years as an in-person event. Everyone who is anyone in politics, the maritime environment, the navy, naval shipbuilding and the supply industry came together for this well-established and respected event. No, not everyone, as there were competing events, such as the GSP and DWT, which took place opposite in the state representation of the federal state of Hesse. Parliamentarians didn't know where to go first, so many competent offers were made. This year, the German Maritime Institute (DMI) and griephan invited participants to...

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Sail training ships - so old and so modern

A moment of carelessness and a wave took me off my tired legs and I slid roughly across the wooden deck. Somewhat shocked and dripping, I heard the boatswain shouting at me in the wind through the water in my ears "All right? Then watch sailor - to the sheet!" There we pulled on the rope with a loud rhythm of "haul away". This went on for hours. It wasn't an exercise or a harassing drill, but a battle with a storm. What were harmless lines on the chart below deck in meteorology were harsh reality up here. Why do people do this to themselves? Sailing...

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