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Morbihan (Department, France): Yacht clubs

Association Nautique de l'Ile aux Moines
Cercle des Régates du Goret
Club Nautique Hoedicais
Société des Régates de Carnac
Société des Régates de Lorient
Société des Régates de Vannes
Société Nautique de la Trinité-sur-Mer
Yacht Club Crouesty-Arzon
Yacht Club de Carnac

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Association Nautique de l'Ile aux Moines

by Ivan Sache

Ile aux Moines (Monks' Island) is a small island and municipality located in the Gulf of Morbihan.
Gulf of Morbihan (in Breton 'small sea') is a small gulf of ca. 20 km width, separated from Atlantic Ocean by a narrow strait of 1 km width.
In the first century before J.C., Julius Caesar defeated the Venetes during a naval fight in what is now the Gulf of Morbihan (but geologists do not all agree that the Gulf was already constituted at that time.)

The Association Nautique de l'Ile aux Moines has a yellow burgee with a black border and the black letters ANIM.

Source: ANIM website

Ivan Sache, 19 May 2001

Cercle des Régates du Goret

by Ivan Sache

Le Goret is a small port located on the Ile aux Moines.

The Cercle des Régates du Goret is a small yacht club with a membership of c. 50. The burgee of the yacht club is yellow with a red stripe placed along the hoist and a blue piglet in the middle. The burgee is canting since a piglet is in French called a goret.

Source: CRG website

Ivan Sache, 19 August 2002

Club Nautique Hoedicais

by Ivan Sache

Société des Régates de Carnac

by Ivan Sache

The Société des Régates de Carnac has a nearly square flag, with nine alternating blue and white stripe and a large, rectangular canton charged with a yellow star.

Source: Guide Vert Michelin Bretagne, edition 2001, showing a colour plate originally released by the SHOM (Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine), undated.

Ivan Sache, 16 October 2001

Société des Régates de Lorient

by Ivan Sache

The Société des Régates de Lorient has a nearly square white flag with a canton made of a horizontally divided blue-red-blue, swallow-tailed flag.
The flag in canton is the arrondissement flag, which was hoisted by civil ships registered in Lorient. Since those flags were abandoned long time ago, that flag of SRL of might be outdated, too.

Source: Guide Vert Michelin Bretagne, edition 2001, showing a colour plate originally released by the SHOM (Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine), undated.

Ivan Sache, 16 October 2001

Société Nautique de la Trinité-sur-Mer

by Ivan Sache

La Trinité-sur-Mer is a sea resort of c. 1,500 inhabitats located on the Atlantic Ocean, at the mouth of the river Crach. The city is named after a chapel consecrated to the Holy Trinity.

After the building of a modern marina in 1970, La Trinité rapidly became the Mecca of French offshore yachting. Several "Formula-One" sailboats are moored there.

The Société Nautique de la Trinité-sur-Mer was founded in 1879 and is currently the French yacht club with the largest membership. Its burgee is a 1:2 triangular flag, horizontally divided blue-red with two white triangles placed along the hoist.

Source: SNT website

Ivan Sache, 16 July 2002

Yacht Club Crouesty-Arzon

by Ivan Sache

Arzon is a small city located at the end of the peninsula of Rhuys, which separates the gulf of Morbihan from Atlantic Ocean. Crouesty is the marina located on the municipality of Arzon.

The Yacht Club Crouesty-Arzon has a truncated burgee quarterly divided white-blue-blue-blue by a red cross fimbriated in white. A sailing ship (blue sail, yellow hull) is placed in the first quarter and the initials Y. C. C. A. in yellow are placed in an arched pattern in the third quarter.

Source: YCCA website

by Ivan Sache

The list of the clubs affiliated to Yacht Club de France shows the burgee of YCCA with a blue border around the canton.

Ivan Sache, 26 December 2004

Yacht Club de Carnac

by Ivan Sache

Carnac is a city of 4,444 inhabitants. The city is famous for its megalithic alignments (more than 2,000 menhirs and a few dolmens, erected between 5000 and 2000 B.P.). Menhirs are erected stones. Dolmens are the stone frameworks of underground funerary rooms whose earth backfill has disappeared, so that they look like a stone table. Several legends have been associated with menhirs and dolmens, not to mention the most famous menhir cutter and thrower, Obélix.

The Yacht Club de Carnac has a light blue burgee with a white sail over two white waves at hoist and a yellow dolmen at fly.

Source: YCC website

Ivan Sache, 19 May 2001