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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, website), located on Point Arradon, uses
a white flag with the square logo of CNA.
Ivan Sache, 2 June 2009
Burgee of SNLB, current and former versions - Images by Ivan Sache, 12 May 2012
The municipality of Le Bono (2,148 inhabitants in 2007; 596 ha) is
located in the northwestern end of the Gulf of Morbihan, at the
confluence between rivers Auray and Bono. Once a small port dedicated
to fishing and oyster-breeding, Le Bono was established an independent
municipality on 1 October 1947, seceding from Plougoumelen.
The legendary yachtsman Bernard Moitessier (1925-1994) is buried in
the municipal cemetery of Le Bono.
The burgee of Société Nautique Le Bono (SNLB) is white at hoist with a black (Breton) ermine spot and the fly divided in three red, blue and green stripes separated by thinner white stripes and converging at the burgee's point (image, no original seen).
A completely different burgee is shown on the associations' directory of the regional newspaper Ouest-France. Here the burgee is white with a blue border, a green triangle along the hoist charged with an orange sailboat inscribed in a white disk, the rest of the burgee white with the orange letters "SNLB" and a black ermine spot.
The advertizing posters of the "Classique du Bono" race 2011 and 2012
shows the first burgee, which must be the one actually used.
Ivan Sache, 12 May 2012
Burgee of YCC, current and former versions - Images by Antoine Pedro, 27 October 2010, and Ivan Sache, 19 May 2001, respectively
The municipality of Carnac (4,295 inhabitants in 2010; 3,271 ha) is famous for its collection of more than 2,000 megalithic standing stones (menhirs).
The burgee of Yacht Club de Carnac (YCC; website) is dark blue with a white cross and a yellow dolmen in canton. A former burgee of YCC was light blue with a white sail over two white waves at hoist and a yellow dolmen at fly.
Ivan Sache, 19 May 2001
Société des Régates de Carnac
Flag of SRC - Image by Ivan Sache, 16 October 2001
The defunct 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.
[Guide Vert Michelin Bretagne, edition 2001,
showing a colour plate originally released by the SHOM, undated]
Ivan Sache, 16 October 2001
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, website) 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.
Ivan Sache, 19 August 2002
Burgee of CNH - Image by Ivan Sache, 7 December 2009
The small island of Hoëdic (aka Hœdic; in Breton, Edig; 111 inhabitants in 2006; 208 ha), located a few miles off the coast of south Brittany, was made a municipality in 1891.
Club Nautique Hoedicais (CNH) was founded in 1964 by summer vacationers fond of sailing. To keep the club as friendly as possible and to respect the natual environment of the island, membership was restricted to 100, each member being awarded a numbered burgee.The burgee of CNH is white with a black cross, whose vertical and horizontal arms are fimbriated in white and black on their left and lower side, respectively. The vertical arm of the cross thinner than the horizontal one. A stylized black ermine spot is placed in canton.
Burgee No. 8 of CNH - Image by Ivan Sache, 7 December 2009
The Pavillon voyageur (Traveling burgee) section of the CNH website shows photos of members of the CNH proudly presented their numbered burgee in different places worldwide.
Burgee No. 8 was presented in October 2003 to the cartoonist Jacques Faizant (d. 2006) by Arnaud Rollet.Ivan Sache, 7 December 2009
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, website) is yellow with a black border and the black letters "ANIM".
Ivan Sache, 19 May 2001
Flag of SNL - Image by Ivan Sache, 4 October 2010
Société Nautique de Larmor-Plage (SNL, website) was the first yacht club founded in the Lorient Harbor, in 1872, as the Société Nautique et d'Instruction Navale de Lorient (SNINL). After the Second World War, the club was relocated in the municipality of Larmor-Plage, at the entrance of the harbor, close to the Kernevel fort, and took its current name.
The emblem of SNL is made of a black fouled anchor with the French
and SNL flags crossed per saltire. The flag of SNL is white with
an horizontally divided blue-red-blue swallow-tailed flag in canton.
The flag placed in the canton of the SNL flag was the registration flag for the maritime arrondissement of Lorient, sector Quimper-Lorient (Lorient included).
Ivan Sache, 4 October 2010
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 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.
Société Nautique de la
Trinité-sur-Mer (SNT, website) 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.
Ivan Sache, 16 July 2002
Burgee of SRSP - Image by Ivan Sache, 30 October 2018
Société des Régates de Saint-Pierre-Quiberon (SRSP; website) is located in the municipality of Saint-Pierre-Quiberon, which covers the northern part of the Quiberon peninsula.
The burgee of SRSP is horizontally divided lighter blue a black ermine
sport and darker blue two white keys crossed per saltire. The ermine spot alludes to Brittany, while the keys are the attributes of the place's patron saint and namesake, St. Peter.
Ivan Sache, 30 October 2018