WHU Sailing

07/04/2025

You are a WHU MBA alumni or current student?

Why not participate in one of the following exciting MBA yacht racing and networking events as part of our WHU Sailing team?! Check them out and let us know. Sailors and newbees welcome!

RSM Regatta
- July 10-13, 2025, Valetta, picturesque island of MALTA
- Boats: SB20 (formerly Laser SB3), competitive sportsboat for teams of 4-5 sailors
- Costs: 600-700 € p.p. including boats, races, hotel, evening events; Excluding personal travel
- https://www.rsmsailing.com/event/rsm-mba-regatta-2025/

IE Regatta
- September 18-21, 2025, Cascais, Portugal
- Sailing J70 Sportsboats. Crews of 5
- Costs to be announced, similar to RSM
- https://ieconnects.ie.edu/iesailing/ie-regatta/

Compete against the world’s top business schools (The MBA Global Sailing League), like Harvard Business School, MIT, London Business School, IE, RSM, POLOMI or INSEAD.

Further regattas to be announced here shortly.

We hope you’ll join - get in touch with us! ([email protected]).

24/10/2024

MBA sailing among top business schools // end of 2024 season // 2025 events announced

WHU Sailing with two teams in MBA sailing league races in Cascais, Portugal

WHU Sailing – managed by WHU alumni – has been active in organizing and taking part in the Global MBA Sailing League where the best international MBA schools compete for winning the prestigious annual trophy.
In a complex series of fleet races, 12 teams in division A (boat type J70) competed against each other on the Atlantic at Cascais, Portugal for two days. The regatta was organized by IE Business School from Madrid and closed the MBA sail racing season for 2024.
Nine WHU // Kellogg WHU alumni on two boats, skippered by Michael Hoffmann and Nils T. Kohle enjoyed, an exciting time on the water, experiencing everything from strong to little winds in bright autumn sunshine. The format of this regatta was short races with team changes on the water, including fleet and match racing.
In sailing division A (J70’s) SDA Bocconi’s sailing team won their third MBA regatta out of the four in 2024 and thus won the overall league this year, closely followed by LBS. WHU came 8 and 10. In division “B”, the IE team scored four super-consistent second places to secure first overall in the yacht division (40-foot boats).
As always, networking with like-minded peers from all the universities was part of the three days event in the Yacht Club of Cascais, one of the most well-known spots for sailors from around the world. About 150 participants from 14 universities took part in the racing, and of course in the common evening receptions as well as at the black-tie price giving ceremony and the after-party in a club in Downtown Lisbon.
Recently the first couple of 2025 regattas and locations have just been announced and we want to further grow our WHU sailing team to be able to take part in more races.
These upcoming events will be organized by our experienced teams and we are happy to have new sailors on board – with or without experience:

• LBS MBA Regatta, Global MBA Trophy 2025, Athens/Greece, April 10th – 13th, Global MBA Trophy – a sailing race amongst alumni of the world's top Business Schools
• POLIMI GsoM, Sardegna/Italy, 8.5.-11.5., Mba | Polimi Gsom Regatta
• RSM MBA Regatta 2025, Valetta/Malta, 10.7.-13.7., RSM MBA Regatta 2025 – RSM Sailing Club
• IE MBA Regatta 2025, Cascais/Portugal, end of Sept – TBD
Let us know if you want to take part and reserve a spot. We will be happy to explain you all the details and integrate you into our team.



Keep updated on MBA sailing
The MBA sailing league events are open to all MBAs, alumni and current students, whether new to sailing or experienced sailors and skippers. Please contact us at [email protected] or follow www.facebook.com/WHU.Sailing to receive further information on upcoming regattas. If you prefer to receive information via e-mail, please send us your preferred mail address to our email address: [email protected]

The MBA Sailing League The MBA Global Sailing League
Each year 5-6 MBA sailing events are held within the “MBA Sailing League” in different sailing spots in Europe. The 3 day events bring some of the top business schools of the world together, not only to compete in sailing, but also to network, reconnect with international friends and have a good time. Initially founded by INSEAD, the MBA regatta series today are made up of more than 20 business schools, depending on the time of the year and location of the race.

10/07/2023

Hello sailors, Kellogg/WHU sailing has opened registrations for the 2023 ABCup sailing regatta - one of the races of the MBA sailing league amongst the top business schools - this year hosted by Kellogg/WHU sailing. Join us now! Details on the event website here: https://lnkd.in/d_Es_R7q or abcup.org
The regatta will take place on 25 – 27 August, with crews arriving on the 24th, and will be located in the Northern European capital of sailing, Kiel, hosted by prestigious Kieler Yacht Club. The regatta will be sailed in new, matched J/70s owned by the German National Sailing League.
The action will be fleet racing with on-the water umpires. Participants will be housed in a modern hotel. An exciting programme of evening events is being planned. If you like to register a team (4-5 crew) or if you're interested in joining a "mixed boat", please let us know!

As always, the races will take part on two days (25th and 26th of August) which give you the possibility to arrive on Thursday to enjoy the nice area, do some practise sailing and look forward to the first get-together on Thursday evening where we meet all the sailors for welcome drinks.

31/03/2023

WHU Sailing will compete in the Global MBA Trophy regatta starting in three weeks, hosted by London Business School and the Yacht Club of Greece - we'll keep you posted!
Also, check out some of the upcoming sailing events:

April 20-23: Athens/Greece (LBS)
May 18-21: Lake Garda/Italy (MIP)
July: Porto/Portugal (RSM)
August 25-27: Kiel/Germany (Insead/WHU)
September: Porto Cervo/Italy (Bocconi)
November: Halloween Regatta (IE)

14/12/2022

Athens Race to kick off the sailing league year is coming closer: https://globalmbatrophy.com/
We have already reserved one boat to become more active in the 2023 sailing season :-)

London Business School and the Yacht Club of Greece proudly hosts the 17th Global MBA Trophy a sailing race amongst alumni and students of the world’s top business schools in Microlimano, Piraeus, Greece with two days of races & networking events on 21st and 22nd April, 2023 Welcome to the Global ...

06/03/2022

2nd race 2022 - Capri
We want to take part in the Capri race from May 26th to 29th 2022. This race is on big boats and we need a team of 8-10 people to reserve a boat.
50% of the participants can be from WHU without any sailing experience (you need to be able to swim) who want to start sailing in a nice atmosphere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpQSH9n0zr4
https://www.mipcapriregatta.it/

The price will be around EUR 650-700 per person, depending on the boat.
If you want to join, please contact Nils T. Kohle.

Regatta - MIP Sailing Club - Capri May 26-29, 2022 MBA Sailing

06/03/2022

First race 2022: Athens / Piraeus
The first race of the global MBA trophy will take place from April 7th to 10th 2022.
https://globalmbatrophy.com/
We do have one seat left on our boat (Division A, Platu 25), you need a little bit of sailing experience. The costs will be EUR 525,- incl. all event parts and hotel.
In case you would love to join, please contact Nils T. Kohle.

London Business School proudly hosts the 16th Global MBA Trophy a sailing race amongst alumni and students of the world’s top business schools in Microlimano, Piraeus, Greece with two days of races & networking events on 8th and 9th April, 2022 Welcome to the Global MBA Trophy a sailing race among...

06/03/2022

Training at Lago di Garda / Italy
We have one space left for a sailor to join our team for a 3-days training session at wonderful Lago di Garda / Riva from March 24th to 27th.
Cost is EUR 605 for training incl. boat (your share).
For information please get in touch with Nils T. Kohle.

06/03/2022

All interested WHU sailors, we have some updates for you about the upcoming races and trainings:
1. Training Lago di Garda, Italy from March 17th to 20th --> 1 place left on the boat
2. First Race 2022: Athens / Piraeus April 7th to 10th --> 1 place left on the race boat
3. Capri Race May 26th to 29th, not applied yet

More information will follow in shareable posts.

04/06/2021

We cannot believe... June 1st to 4th 2021 will be the first sailing race with the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management sailing team.
After more than 18 month we will all gather in Oporto/Portugal :-)
https://www.rsmsailing.com/event/rsm-mba-regatta-2021/
The next races will hopefully follow soon - we will keep you posted!

In case you have questions to the next races and WHU Sailing, please ping Nils.

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17/03/2020

Dear all,

the WHU/Kellogg sailing team and the Alumni Business Cup Association are very sad to inform you that the 2020 ABCup Regatta in Hamburg / Germany (May 21-24, 2020) is now officially cancelled.

This frustrating decision is aligned with the most recent instructions issued by the Hamburg government and the health authorities, who have called off all group and touristic events in Hamburg for the next 6 weeks – with possible extensions into May.

Nevertheless, all registered ABCup participants will be fully refunded in the coming days.

While we’re very disappointed, we fully understand and support the government’s decision to protect as many people’s health as possible. The ABCup Regatta has been around for more than a quarter of a century and will not surrender to Corona but will be back next year for sure! We’ll inform you as soon as we know more about next year’s dates when we plan to do the race in Hamburg again.

We take this opportunity to thank our sponsors for their much appreciated support:
Kellogg-WHU (www.whu.edu)
A.W. Niemeyer (www.awn.de)
Spaces (www.spacesworks.com)
MOIA (www.moia.io)
TEEKANNE (www.teekanne.de)
Evectro (www.evectro.com)
Mondelez (www.mondelez.com)
Public Coffee Roasters (www.publiccoffeeroasters.com)
Stelton (www.stelton.com)
Moet&Chandon (www.moet.com)

We would like to thank all of you for having registered! We hope to see you all on the water next year!

Thanks a lot for your understanding and don’t hesitate to contact us with any further questions.
And keep up to date: www.abcuphamburg.de / https://www.instagram.com/abcuphamburg/

To friendship, fun and glory!
Nils
(for the ABCup Team)