Finistère (Department, France): Yacht clubs

Last modified: 2002-11-02 by ivan sache
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• Société des Régates de Douarnenez
  • Former (or erroneous?) burgee
• Société des Régates de Morlaix
• Yacht Club de Morlaix
• Yacht Club de l'Odet

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Société des Régates de Douarnenez

by Ivan Sache

Douarnenez is a sea resort and fishing port of ca. 16,000 inhabitants
Douar en enez means in Breton 'the Land of the Island'. This refers to Tristan island, a small rock off Douarnenez which was a haunt of bandits in the XVIth century.
The mythical city of Ys, destroyed because of the debauched daughter of King Gradlon, is said to have been engulfed in the Bay of Douarnenez ( but other bays in Brittany claim the engulfment,too).

The city and its painted houses attracted the Impressionist painters at the end of the XIXth century. In 1921, Douarnenez was the first municipality in France to be directed by the Communist Party.

The Société des Régates de Douarnenez has a simple burgee vertically divided white-blue with a blue star in the white stripe.

Source: SRD website

Ivan Sache, 13 May 2001

Former (or erroneous?) burgee

by Ivan Sache

Guide Vert Michelin Bretagne, edition 2001 shows the burgee of SRD with a red star, on 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 Morlaix

by Ivan Sache

Triangular flag, vertically divided blue-white-red (1:1:1) with a red star in the white stripe.

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

Yacht Club de Morlaix

by Ivan Sache

White burgee with a vertically decentered cross made of a red horizontal stripe and a blue vertical stripe placed above it, and a red castle in canton.
I believe the castle is the Château du Taureau (Bull's Castle), a fort built on a small island in the 'Morlaix river' (in fact a large estuary ending in the Bay of Morlaix) in 1542 to protect the city from English attacks. In 1660, Louis XIV ordered his architect Vauban to transform the castle into a State prison.

Source: Smith [smi76]

Ivan Sache, 16 October 2001

Yacht Club de l'Odet

by Ivan Sache

Yacht Club de l'Odet is based in Bénodet, a small harbour located on the estuary of the Odet river.

Ivan Sache, 10 June 2000