Calvados (Department, France): Yacht clubs

Last modified: 2004-02-28 by ivan sache
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• Club Nautique de Honfleur
• Club Nautique de Trouville-Hennequville
• Société des Régates de Courseulles
• Unidentified burgee

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• France
• Calvados (Department, France)
• France: Yacht clubs

Club Nautique de Trouville-Hennequeville

by Ivan Sache

Trouville is a sea resort of ca. 6,000 inhabitants, located on the Côte Fleurie (Flower Coast) on the Channel.
Trouville was the first sea resort in the area, built during the Second Empire, but was rapidly supplanted by Deauville, located across the river Touques from Trouville. Hennequeville is located ca. 4 km north of Trouville.

The Club Nautique de Trouville-Hennequeville has a blue burgee with a red horizontal triangle extending from hoist to fly. The shape of the red device placed vertically along the hoist is not clear.

Source: CNTH website

Ivan Sache, 19 May 2001

Société des Régates de Courseulles

by Ivan Sache

Courseulles-sur-Mer is a small recreational port and sea resort of ca. 3,000 inhabitants.
Located on the Côte de Nacre (Mother-of-Pearl Coast) of the Channel, Courseulles was part of the Juno Beach sector during the allied Normandy landings in June 1944. The mouth of the Seulles river hosted a temporary harbour, later replaced by the Mulberry port of Arromanches. On the western beach of Courseulles landed Winston Churchill (12 June 1944), General de Gaulle on his way to Bayeux (14 June), and H.M. George VI visiting his troops (16 June).
Courseulles is also renowned for its oyster parks.

The Société des Régates de Courseulles has a very simple burgee, vertically divided blue-red with a large white star in the center. This design is based on the chief of the municipal coat of arms.

Source: SRC website and personal observations

Ivan Sache, 12 May 2001

Unidentified burgee

by Ivan Sache, tower from the GASO website

A red burgeewith a yellow tower with black door, masonry etc. was seen on a boat moored in the Old Basin of Honfleur.

My educated guess is that the burgee belongs to the Sociéte des Régates de Caen-Ouistreham. My hints are:

• Gules a tower or masoned etc. sable is the municipal coat of arms of Caen;
• Société des Regates is an ancient name, therefore indicating an old yacht club, which might have an 'old-fashioned' 'burgee of arms';
• Ouistreham, the maritime port of Caen is not far from Honfleur.

There is also a yellow tower on the coat of arms of Dives, a port located between Ouistreham and Honfleur and which was the starting point of William the Conqueror expedition, but the SR Caen-Ouistreham seems to be a better choice.

There is also a yellow tower on the coat of arms of Honfleur, but there was only one boat with that burgee and no evidence for a second yacht club in Honfleur beside the CNH.

Ivan Sache, 25 October 2003