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![[Burgee of AUBBRI]](../images/f/fr-29~bb.gif)
Burgee of AUBBRI - Image by Ivan Sache, 19 August 2002
Brignogan Bay, also called Port of Pontusval on the nautical map, is located on the northern coast of Brittany. In the past, the inhabitants of the area were known as wreckers and looters. Brignogan (849 inhabitants) is now a sea resort with several sandy beaches. In 1936, the municipality added -Plages (-Beaches) to its name in order to attract tourists. The first annual paid holidays (congés payés) were prescribed in France in 1936 by the government of Front Populaire. The Law of 20 June 1936 was voted unanimuously by the Parliament. Léo Lagrange, the first State Secretary for Leisure, proclaimed 1936 as l'An I du Bonheur ("the Year I of Happiness"). The initial two-week vacation period prescribed in 1936 was extended to three, four and five weeks in 1956, 1969, and 1982, respectively.
Association des Usagers de la Baie de Brignogan-Plages
(AUBBRI - Users' Association of the Bay of Brignogan-Beaches) was
registered in August 1987. Members of the association are fishers,
yachtmen and beach users of the Bay of Brignogan.
The burgee of AUBBRI is horizontally divided yellow-blue. The letters
AUBBRI are placed in the middle of the flag with counterchanged
colours. A thin vertical line with counterchanged colours is placed
near the hoist. A sailing boat is placed in lower hoist, and a device
looking like a beacon is placed in upper hoist.
Source: AUBBRI website
Ivan Sache, 8 July 2007
![[CN Loctudy]](../images/f/fr-29~lo.gif)
Burgee of CNL - Image by Ivan Sache, 16 July 2002
The port town of Loctudy (4,000 inhabitants) is located on the Atlantic
Ocean, on the mouth of the River of Pont-l'Abbé.
The fishing port of Loctudy was founded in 1847, its speciality being
the demoiselle de Loctudy (Loctudy young lady), the
langoustine.
Cercle Nautique de Loctudy was founded in 1937. Its burgee is horizontally divided blue-white-blue-white-blue (2:1:2:1:2) with two thin red diagonal stripes.
Source: CNL website
Ivan Sache, 16 July 2002
![[CN Carantec]](../images/f/fr-29~cc.gif)
Burgee of CNC - Image by Ivan Sache, 5 July 2003
The small town of Carantec (2,700 inabitants) is located on the Bay of
Morlaix, on the northern coast of Brittany. According to
Roger
Frey, the name of the city comes from St. Carantec
(Carantocus). Carantec was the elder son of the founder of
Cardigan, in Wales, and his disciple Tenenan is said to have founded
the village of Carantec. Tenenan was appointed Bishop of
Léon in 615. Carantec was mentioned
as Quaranteuc (1404), Karantec (1434) and eventually
Carantec (1446).
Carantec was a part of the neighbouring municipality of Taule until 1802,
when it became an independent parish, belonging to the former
bishopric of Léon.
Club Nautique de Carantec is located on the beach of Kelenn and has a membership of 160. The burgee of the CNC is a 3:5 triangular flag with seven horizontal stripes, black-white-black-white-black-white-black. A black ermine spot on a white background is placed near the hoist, covering the three central stripes of the flag. The ermine spot is flanked by the lettering CN / CARANTEC, written in black on the central white stripe. The ermine spot has a rather unusual design.
Source: CNC website
Ivan Sache, 5 July 2003
![[LEs Copains d'@bord]](../images/f/fr-29~ca.gif)
Burgee of Les Copains d'@bord - Image by Ivan Sache, 1 November 2010
Les Copains d'@bord is an association registered on 31 May 2008
"to defend the interests of the year-round amateur and professional
users of the port of Plougasnou, and to protect and transfer the local
maritime heritage". Membership was 63 in August 2010.
Plougasnou is a small town located in northern Brittany, 15 km north
of Morlaix, in a quite isolated region, until now preserved from mass
tourism and mass marina-yachting. The town's port is located in Le
Diben, inside the scenic Primel cove. Its equipments are shared by
amateur (350 moorings) and professional fishers; two fish traders
established on the port export fish, while the Vivers de la Méloine fish tanks, built in 1922, store and sell sea-food, especially lobster. A shipyard is located not far from the port.
Les Copains d'@bord was set up in the context of the release by the municipality of Plougasnou of a controversial development plan for the port. While some members of the association are opponents to the project, the association does not want to take sides - there are already four registered associations opposed to the project. Since 30 October 2003 (Prefectoral Decree enforcing the 2002 Decentralization Law), the Municipality of Plougasnou had been in charge of the management of the port. In 2006, the Municipal Council presented a project of "sustainable development" of the port, including an increase in the number of moorings and modernization of the equipment. On 12 June 2007, the Municipal Council unanimuously voted the transfer of its own competence on the port to the Morlaix Communauté Intermunicipal Authority, whose Council accepted the transfer on 17 December 2007. The project of port development was presented by Morlaix Communauté in October 2008; work is expected to start before 2012.
Les Copains d'@bord is a straightforward tribute to the song Les
Copains d'abord (The Buddies First), released by Georges Brassens
(1921-1981) in November 1964 (first track of Brassens' 10th record,
untitled following the use of the times, but subsequently known as
Les Copains d'abord). The song compares male friendship (Brassens
was quite mysoginic) to solidarity among a ship's crew, using all
kinds of maritime metaphors (including the use of the word lapin,
"rabbit", never pronounced by sailors according to a very old
superstition!).
The song (clip), one of the most famous of Brassens', was indeed a command by
the movie director Yves Robert (1920-2002) for his movie Les
Copains, eventually released in 1965, after the record. Based on a
novel published in 1913 by Jules Romains (1885-1972), the movie (extract)
describes the "devastation" ot two small Auvergne towns, Ambert and
Issoire, by a band of seven buddies perpetrating anarchistic hoaxes
against the institutions.
The burgee of Les Copains d'@bord is blue with a white fishing hook. The association claims that the burgee is very popular, a fact I have checked myself in July 2010; several boats moored in the port actually flew the burgee.
Ivan Sache, 1 November 2010
![[SR Douarnenez]](../images/f/fr-29~dz.gif)
Burgee of SRD - Images by Ivan Sache, 16 October 2001
Douarnenez (16,000 inhabitants) is a sea resort and fishing port. 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 16th 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 town and its painted houses attracted the Impressionist
painters at the end of the 19th century. In 1921, Douarnenez was the
first municipality in France to be directed by the Communist Party.
The burgee of Société des Régates de Douarnenez is vertically divided white-blue with a red star in the white stripe.
Source: SRD website
Ivan Sache, 16 October 2001
![[Burgee of SRM]](../images/f/fr-29~mx.gif)
Burgee of SRM - Image by Ivan Sache, 16 October 2001
The burgee of SRM is a 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
![[Burgee of YCM]](../images/f/fr-29~my.gif)
Burgee of YCM - Image by Ivan Sache, 16 October 2001
The burgee of YCM is a triangular white flag 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.
The castle is Château du Taureau (Bull's
Castle), a fort built on a small island in the River of Morlaix, the
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
![[YC de l'Odet]](../images/f/fr-29~od.gif)
Burgee of YCO - Image by Ivan Sache, 1 April 2005
Yacht Club de l'Odet is based in Bénodet, a small
harbour located on the estuary of the Odet river.
The burgee of YCO is white, divided in three parts by red Y-shape stripes, with a black ermine spot near the hoist and two blue stars near the fly.
Source: YCO website
Ivan Sache, 1 April 2005
![[YC Port Manech]](../images/f/fr-29~pm.gif)
Burgee of YC Port Manech - Image by Ivan Sache, 2 June 2009
The small port of Port Manech (part of the municipality of Névez) is located on the mouth of the river Aven, south of Pont-Aven, in the paeninsula of Névez (southern Brittany). The region was famous in the 19th for its quarries; the local houses, made of big flagstones and unique in France, were nicknamed "standing stones". A few of them have been restored and are still inhabited, especially in the village of Kerascoët. Once a busy fishing port, with some 50 boats fishing sardines, Port Manech is today a pleasant sea resort.
Yacht Club de Port Manech et de l'Aven was founded in 1970 by Dr.
Lecoutour. The club organizes the Six Heures (Six Hours) regatta
every year on 15 August.
The burgee of the club, as shown graphically on the club website, is
white with two yellow triangles placed neat the hoist and separated
from the main white field by a blue stripe, and a black ermine spot in
the middle of the white field.
Source: YC Port Manech website
Ivan Sache, 2 June 2009
![[YC des Abers]](../images/f/fr-29~ab.gif)
Burgee of YCA - Image by Ivan Sache, 5 July 2003
In Brittany, an aber (also called a ria) is the lower valley of a river which was invaded by the sea at the end of the last glaciation, when melting of the continental ice caused a dramatic raising of the seal level. The biggest abers are Aber Benoît and Aber Wrac'h, located on the north-western coast of Brittany.
Yacht Club des Abers was created in 1974. It is located
in L'Aber Wrac'h, part of the municipality of Landeda (3,000
inhabitants), with an annex in St. Pabu, on the Aber Benoît.
YCA has a membership of 200. Every year in June, YCA
organizes the Transmanche en double (Doubles Transchannel)
race.
The burgee of YCA is a long (5:12) triangular flag, red with
three blue triangles of different sizes placed along the hoist. The
white letters YCA are placed in the middle of the flag.
Source: YCA website
Ivan Sache, 5 July 2003