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Côtes-d'Armor (Department, France): Yacht clubs and rowing clubs

Last modified: 2006-12-23 by ivan sache
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Amicale des Plaisanciers du Leguer

[APL burgee]

Burgee of APL - Image by Ivan Sache, 12 July 2003

Amicale des Plaisanciers du Leguer has its social seat in Lannion, a city built at the inner end of the large estuary of the river Leguer. The yacht club is located in the small port of Beg-Hent, on the right bank of the Leguer estuary, five kilometers downstream the center of Lannion.
The burgee of the APL is yellow with a black border, a black anchor and a fish, a black ermine spot and the letters APL placed vertically along the hoist.

Source: APL website

Ivan Sache, 12 July 2003


Aviron Club d'Armor

[ACA flag]

Flag of ACA - Image by Ivan Sache, 17 December 2004

The rowing club Aviron Club d'Armor aka Les Avirons d'Armor has two bases, one in Plédéliac for river rowing and one in Pléneuf-Val André for sea rowing.
The flag of Aviron Club d'Armor is horizontally divided blue-red with a yellow triangle placed along the fly.

Source: ACA website

Ivan Sache, 17 December 2004


Centre Nautique de Tréguier

[CN Tréguier]

Burgee of CNT - Image by Ivan Sache & Michel Bolloré, 31 March 2001

The burgee of Centre Nautique de Tréguier was designed by Christian Le Berre, port instructor in Tréguier, and Hervé Elies, from the Marina Sports company.
It is based on the traditional Kroaz-Du (black cross on a white field). The canton in yellow, the colour of St. Yves, and is charged with St. Tudwal's red dragon, which also appears on the flag of Tregor

Source: Ar Banniel [arb] #10 (Winter 1999)

Ivan Sache, 31 March 2001


Yacht Club de Trébeurden

[YC Trebeurden]

Flag of YCT - Image by Ivan Sache, 13 May 2001

Trébeurden (c. 3,000 inhabitants) is a sea resort located on the Côte de Granit Rose (Pink Granit Coast). Although located on the northern shore of Brittany, Trebeurden has sand beaches exposed to the South, with water temperature usually a bit warmer than elsewhere in the neighborhood.
Yacht Club de Tébeurden has a flag diagonally divided white over dark blue, with a dark blue ermine spot in canton.

Source: YCT website

Ivan Sache, 13 May 2001


Yacht Club du Val-André

[YC Val-Andre]

Flag of YCVA - Image by Ivan Sache, 23 July 2006

The municipality of Pléneuf-Val-André is located 20 km east of Saint-Brieuc. Pléneuf was originally known as Plou Nevez (the new settlement), and was probably settled in the Vth century on the site of a former Roman camp.
The sea resort of Val-André was created in 1880 by Charles Cottard, a collaborator of Ferdinand de Lesseps. This wide, low valley ending in a large sand beach was then known as Val en Dret. Within a few years, a promenade, villas and hotels were built and the new resort merged with Pléneuf. The port of Dahouët is known since the beginning of the XVth century as a place from which grain and cider produced in the hinterland were shipped. The masons and carpentars of the village were also famous. The port developed in the XIXth century with the Grande Pêche in Newfoundland; quays were built in 1822 only.

Yacht Club du Val-André (YCVA) is based in the port of Dahouët. The club is the organizer of the race Trois jours d'Armor (Dahouët-Jersey-Dahouët).
The burgee of YCVA is quartered red-blue by a white saltire. It might have been inspired by the municipal arms of Pléneuf-Val-André, shown on the municipal website as: De gueules fretté argent au chef de sable au léopard d'argent accompagné de sept coquilles du même ordonnées 4 et 3 (Gules fretty argent a chief sable a lion passant guardant between in chief four and in base three escallops fesswise argent). Both Brian Timms and GASO give the coat of arms as Per fess sable a lion... gules fretty argent.

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Ivan Sache, 23 July 2006