Last modified: 2009-10-02 by ivan sache
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![[AN Ile-aux-Moines]](../images/f/fr-56~im.gif)
Burgee of ANIM - Image by Ivan Sache, 19 May 2001
Île aux Moines (Monks' Island) is a small island and municipality
located in the Gulf of Morbihan (in Breton "small sea"), a small gulf of ca. 20 km
width, separated from Atlantic Ocean by a narrow strait of 1 km in
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 burgee of Association Nautique de l'Île aux Moines (ANIM) is yellow with a black border and the black letters "ANIM".
Source: ANIM website
Ivan Sache, 19 May 2001
![[Flag of CNA]](../images/f/fr-56~ar.gif)
Burgee of CNA - Image by Ivan Sache, 2 June 2009
The municipality of Arradon is located on the Gulf of Morbihan, a few kilometers west of Vannes. The town is famous for the scenic, thin stripe of land called Point Arradon. The local hero is the yachtman Eugè:ne Riguidel (b. 1940), winner of the Transat en double (Lorient-Bermuda-Lorient) with Gilles Gahinet in 1979, who abandoned racing in 1985 to become an ecologist militant.
The Centre Nautique d'Arradon (CNA), located on Point Arradon, uses a white flag with the square logo of CNA, as seen on a photo (page no longer available) taken in 2008 during the GP de Vannes race.
Ivan Sache, 2 June 2009
![[Cercles des Regates du Goret]](../images/f/fr-56~go.gif)
Burgee of CRG - Image by Ivan Sache, 19 August 2002
Le Goret is a small port located on Île aux
Moines.
Cercle des Régates du Goret (CRG) 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
![[CN Hoedicais]](../images/f/fr-56~hd.gif)
Flag of Club Nautique Hoedicais - Image by Ivan Sache, 8 September 2002
![[SNT burgee]](../images/f/fr-56~tr.gif)
Burgee of SNT - Image by Ivan Sache, 16 July 2002/P>
La Trinité-sur-Mer (1,500 inhabitants) is a sea resort located on the Atlantic Ocean, at the mouth of the river Crach. The town 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.
Société Nautique de la Trinité-sur-Mer (SNT) 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
![[Flag of SR Carnac]](../images/f/fr-56~cx.gif)
Flag of SRC - Image by Ivan Sache, 16 October 2001
Société des Régates de Carnac (SRC) 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
![[Flag of SRL]](../images/f/fr-56~lo.gif)
Flag of SRL - Image by Ivan Sache, 16 October 2001
Société des Régates de Lorient (SRL) 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
![[YC Crouesty-Arzon]](../images/f/fr-56~ca.gif)
![[YC Crouesty-Arzon?]](../images/f/fr-56~c1.gif)
Burgee of YCCA, two versions - Images by Ivan Sache, 26 December 2004
Arzon is a small town 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.
Yacht Club Crouesty-Arzon (YCCA) 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
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
![[YC Carnac]](../images/f/fr-56~cc.gif)
Burgee of YCC - Image by Ivan Sache, 19 May 2001
Carnac (4,444 inhabitants) is famous for its megalithic alignments (more than 2,000 menhirs and a few dolmens, erected between 5000 and 2000 BC). 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.
Yacht Club de Carnac (YCC) 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