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France: Regional Sailing Leagues

Flag of the FFV - Images by Ivan Sache, 31 July 2016

Regional sailing leagues
Former regional sailing leagues

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Regional sailing leagues

The French Sailing Federation tutors leagues organized in each administrative Region; the regional leagues have local competences, especially in competition management and yachting training.

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Sailing League

Flag of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Sailing League - Image by Ivan Sache, 25 March 2019

The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Sailing League (Ligue de Voile Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, website) groups 57 sailing clubs.

The flag of the league (photo, photo) is white with its new emblem.
The emblem is compliant with the new "visual identity" adopted in December 2012 by the French Sailing Federation: for each regional league, the emblem of the mother federation is retained, with "LIGUE" added above "FF", and the name of the Region is added beneath "Voile". Each league is assigned a color, here, green, used in the second sail forming the "V" of "FFV" and in the additional writing.

Ivan Sache, 25 March 2019

Brittany Sailing League

Flag of the Brittany Sailing League, current and former flags - Images by Ivan Sache, 2 April 2019

The Brittany Sailing League (Ligue Bretonne de Voile, website), based in Brest, represents some 30% of the members of the French Sailing Federation and more than 185 clubs.

The flag of the Brittany Sailing League (photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo) is white with its new emblem. Oddly enough, the emblem is not compliant with the new "visual identity" adopted in December 2012 by the French Sailing Federation.
The emblem features a nice sail-shaped ermine spot in three colors, blue, black and green. The name of the league is written in black on the right side of the sail. The URL of the league's website is written in blue beneath the whole.

The former flag of the League (photo), was white with a blue saltire, charged on its ascending arm with the white writing "VOILE - BRETAGNE" and cantonned with the emblem of the League.
The emblem of the League is an elegant variation of the Breton ermine spot, whose lower part is shaped like a blue and red sailboat. The three lozenges of the ermine spot are blue on the emblem; however, on the flag, the upper lozenge is blue while the two other are red. The colors of the lozenges are confirmed by D. Kervella and M. Bodlore-Penlaez (Guide des drapeaux bretons et celtes)

Ivan Sache, 2 April 2019

Departmental Sailing Committee in Finistère

Flag of the Departmental Sailing Committee in Finistère - Image by Ivan Sache, 1 May 2022

The Departmental Sailing Committee in Finistère (Comité Départemental de Voile du Finistère, CDV 29 [official website]), is a "deconcentrated" organism of the French Sailing Federation, in charge of coordination and management of sport sailing in the department of Finistère.
Sport sailing in Finistère involves more than 25 clubs, three training centers (Baie de Morlaix, Pays de Brest, Pays de Cornouaille), 4 school's sport section (Fouesnant, Douarnenez, Camaret, Lannilis), the Departmental Training Center (for the youth), the Labelled Training Center, and Pôle France (in Brest for Olympic sailing; in Port-la-Forêt for ocean racing).
The Finistère teams groups some 100 racers. They claimed three gold medal in the Olympic Games (Jean-Yves Le Déroff, Tornado, 1988; Franck David, Windsurfing, 1992; Faustine Merret, Windsurfing, 2004) Famous ocean racers such as Michel Desjoyaux ("The Professor"; winner of the Vendée Globe 2001-2002 and 2008-2009; of the Route du Rhum 2002; of the Transat 2004; of the Transat Jacques Vabre 2007; and of the Solitaire du Figaro 1992, 1998 and 2007), Armel Le Cleach ("The Jackal of the Seas"; winner of the Vendée Globe 2016-2017 and of the Solitaire du Figaro 2010 and 2020), and Jean Le Cam ("King Jean"; winner of the Transat Jacques Vabre 2013 and of the Solitaire du Figaro 1994, 1996 and 1999) are members of the Finistère team.

The flag of CDV 29 is white with the committee's logo: photo, photo.

Ivan Sache, 1 May 2022

Centre Sailing League

The Centre Sailing League (Ligue du Centre de Voile, website) encompasses 27 clubs located in the departments of Cher (2), Eure-et-Loir (5), Indre (3), Indre-et-Loire (5), Loir-et-Cher (4), and Loiret (8).

The flag of the league (photo, 26 August 2012) is white with the logo of the League.

Ivan Sache, 12 October 2010

Grand Est Sailing League

Flag of the Grand Est Sailing League - Image by Ivan Sache, 26 March 2019

The flag of the Grand Est Sailing League (photo) is white with its new emblem.
The emblem is compliant with the new "visual identity" adopted in December 2012 by the French Sailing Federation: for each regional league, the emblem of the mother federation is retained, with "LIGUE" added above "FF" and the name of the Region is added beneath "Voile". Each league is assigned a color, here, red, used in the second sail forming the "V" of "FFV" and in the additional writing.

Ivan Sache, 26 March 2019

Hauts de France Sailing League

Flag of the Hauts de France Sailing League - Image by Ivan Sache, 23 February 2020

The flag of the Hauts de France Sailing League (photo, photo) is white with its new emblem.
The emblem is compliant with the new "visual identity" adopted in December 2012 by the French Sailing Federation: for each regional league, the emblem of the mother federation is retained, with "LIGUE" added above "FF" and the name of the Region is added beneath "Voile". Each league is assigned a color, here, green, used in the second sail forming the "V" of "FFV" and in the additional writing.
The emblem appears to have been recently modified, with an orange "V" and the writing "des Hauts de France" instead of "Hauts de France".

Ivan Sache, 23 February 2020

Île-de-France Sailing League

Flag of the Île-de-France Sailing League, current and former flags - Images by Ivan Sache, 23 February 2020

The Île-de-France Sailing League (Ligue Île-de-France de Voile, website) encompasses 92 clubs and 11 laisure bases.

The flag of the Île-de-France Sailing League is white with its new emblem.
The emblem is compliant with the new "visual identity" adopted in December 2012 by the French Sailing Federation: for each regional league, the emblem of the mother federation is retained, with "LIGUE" added above "FF" and the name of the Region is added beneath "Voile". Each league is assigned a color, here, red, used in the second sail forming the "V" of "FFV" and in the additional writing.

The former flag of the League (photo, photo) was white with the former logo of the League in the center.

Ivan Sache, 23 February 2020

Nouvelle-Aquitaine Sailing League

Flag of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Sailing League - Image by Ivan Sache, 23 February 2020

The Nouvelle-Aquitaine Sailing League was established on 9 April 2016 as a consequence of the creation of Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine and as the merger of the three former leagues of Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes.

The flag of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Sailing League (photo, photo, photo) is white with its new emblem.
The emblem is compliant with the new "visual identity" adopted in December 2012 by the French Sailing Federation: for each regional league, the emblem of the mother federation is retained, with "LIGUE" added above "FF" and the name of the Region is added beneath "Voile". Each league is assigned a color, here, orange, used in the second sail forming the "V" of "FFV" and in the additional writing.

Ivan Sache, 23 February 2020

Occitanie Sailing League

Flag of the Occitanie Sailing League - Image by Ivan Sache, 23 February 2020

The Occitanie Sailing League groups more than 16,000 members, being therefore France's third biggest regional sailing league.

The flag of the Occitanie Sailing League (photo) is white with its new emblem.
The emblem is compliant with the new "visual identity" adopted in December 2012 by the French Sailing Federation: for each regional league, the emblem of the mother federation is retained, with "LIGUE" added above "FF" and the name of the Region is added beneath "Voile". Each league is assigned a color, here, orange, used in the second sail forming the "V" of "FFV" and in the additional writing.

Ivan Sache, 23 February 2020

Pays de la Loire Sailing League

Flag of the Pays de la Loire Sailing League - Image by Ivan Sache, 27 March 2019

The Pays de la Loire Sailing League (Ligue de Voile Pays de la Loire, website) encompasses 93 clubs located in the departments of Loire-Atlantique (40), Maine-et-Loire (7), Mayenne (5), Sarthe (4), and Vendée (37).

The flag of the Pays de la Loire Sailing League (photo, photo, photo) is white with its new emblem.
The emblem is compliant with the new "visual identity" adopted in December 2012 by the French Sailing Federation: for each regional league, the emblem of the mother federation is retained, with "LIGUE" added above "FF" and the name of the Region is added beneath "Voile". Each league is assigned a color, here, green, used in the second sail forming the "V" of "FFV" and in the additional writing.

The former flag of the league (photo, photo) was white with the former logo of the league.
The logo is mostly made of a red sail standing over a map of the Region Pays de la Loire.

Ivan Sache, 27 March 2019

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Sailing League

Flag of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Sailing League - Image by Ivan Sache, 18 March 2019

The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Sailing League (Ligue de Voile Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, wesbite), headquartered in La Seyne-sur-Mer with a secondary seat in Marseilles, was established on 12 March 2011 as the merger of the Alpes-Provence Sailing League and of the Côte d'Azur Sailing League.

The flag of the league (photo, photo, photo) is white with its new emblem.
The emblem is compliant with the new "visual identity" adopted in December 2012 by the French Sailing Federation: for each regional league, the emblem of the mother federation is retained, with "LIGUE" added above "FF" and the name of the Region is added beneath "Voile". Each league is assigned a color, here, orange, used in the second sail forming the "V" of "FFV" and in the additional writing.

Ivan Sache, 18 March 2019

Former regional sailing leagues

Some regional leagues were reorganized or suppressed following the 2015 reform that merged some regions.

Alpes-Provence Sailing League

Flag of the Alpes-Provence Sailing League - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 October 2010

The Alpes-Provence Sailing League (Ligue Alpes-Provence de Voile, website) was in charge of sailing in the Departments of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes, Bouches-du-Rhône and Vaucluse, that is the "Provence-Alpes" component of Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The league encompasses 52 clubs and nearly 16,000 members.
The Alpes-Provence and Côte-d'Azur leagues were merged on 12 March 2011 to form the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Sailing League.

The flag of the League (photos, August 2008) was white with the logo of the League.
The logo of the League is made of a stylized blue pennant, "Voile" (Sailing) in blue letters, except the "V", bigger, in red, and a blue rectangle charged with the white writing "LIGUE / ALPES . PROVENCE", "LIGUE" being separated from the two other words by the base of the red "V".

Ivan Sache, 15 October 2011

Haute-Normandie Sailing League

Flag of the Haute-Normandie Sailing League - Image by Ivan Sache, 12 October 2010

The Haute-Normandie Sailing League (Ligue de Voile de Haute-Normandie, website) encompasses 24 clubs and more than 9,500 members.

The flag of the League (photos, August 2010) is white with the logo of the League.
The logo of the League is similar to the logo of the Regional Council of Haute-Normandie, shaped as a sail, with the black writing "LIGUE DE VOILE" (Yachting League) along the upper edge of the sail and "HAUTE-NORMANDIE" below the sail.

Ivan Sache, 16 September 2012

Lorraine Sailing League

The Lorraine Sailing League (Ligue Lorraine de Voile, website) encompasses 19 clubs located in the departments of Moselle (9), Meurthe-et-Moselle (6), Meuse (2), and Vosges (2).

The flag of the League (photo, 24 August 2012), is white with the writings "Ligue Lorraine de Voile" at the top and "Lorraine" at the bottom, in the middle the logos of the French Sailing Federation and of the Council General of Lorraine.

Ivan Sache, 16 September 2012

Nord / Pas-de-Calais Sailing League

The Nord / Pas-de-Calais Sailing League (Ligue Régionale de Voile Nord / Pas-de-Calais (website) encompasses 40 clubs and some 12,000 members.

The flag of the League (photo, 24 August 2012) is blue with the logo of the League, countercoloured, in the middle.

Ivan Sache, 16 September 2012

Poitou-Charentes Sailing League

Flag of the Poitou-Charentes Sailing League - Image by Ivan Sache, 14 October 2010

The Poitou-Charentes Sailing League (Ligue Poitou-Charente de Voile, website) is based in La Rochelle.

The flag of the League (photos, August 2008) is white with the logo of the League.
The logo of the League is made of a rectangle horizontally divided light blue (sky) and blue (sea), with five white triangular sails, three small in the background and two bigger in the foreground, over the biggest sail a red diagonal curved stripe, probably alluding to the former Region's flag. The name of the League is written in blue letters on the right of the emblem, on three lines (LIGUE / POITOU-CHARENTES / DE VOILE).
On the flag, the light blue and blue fields are separated by a thin white line, which does not appear on the printed logo of the League.

Ivan Sache, 24 October 2010