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Loire-Atlantique (Department, France): Yacht clubs

Cercle Nautique La Baule Le Pouliguen Pornichet
Club Nautique de Pornic
Société des Régates du Pouliguen
Sport Nautique de l'Ouest
Yacht Club de la Baule

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Cercle Nautique La Baule Le Pouliguen Pornichet

by Ivan Sache

Pornichet, La Baule and Le Pouliguen are three sea resorts located on the Atlantic Ocean, west of Nantes and Saint-Nazaire. They constitute a 10 km-long built-up area.

La Baule, self-proclaimed "the most beautiful beach in Europe" is a city of c. 15,000 inhabitants, the most famous of them being Marc Pajot, winner of the Route du Rhum transatalantic race in 1982. The name of the city comes from bol (bowl), which was the local name of the round sand dunes which surrounded the city. These dunes, which had buried the village of Escoublac, were fixed in 1840 with maritime pines planted on 400 hectares. The sea resort started to develop in 1879. Unfortunately, most of the beautiful villas of the late XIXth century were progressively destroyed, and huge buildings replaced them.
In 1930, the sea resort of La Baule-les-Pins was created east of La Baule, in the middle of the pine forest mentioned above.

Le Pouliguen was a small fishing port, which turned into a sea resort in 1854 when popularized by the writers Louis Veuillot and Jules Sandeau.

Pornichet was a village of salt merchants, which turned into a sea resort in 1860 when members of the Parisian jet-set, including the publisher Camille Flammarion, settled there. The city is divided into two parts, Vieux-Pornichet, the old city, and Pornichet-les-Pins, the sea resort.

The burgee of Cercle Nautique La Baule Le Pouliguen Pornichet is horizontally divided blue-light blue-blue with a white fimbriation between the blue stripes. The central light blue stripe is charged with the letters CNBPP in blue and a blue ermine. The ermine recalls that the area was part of the historical Brittany,

Source: CNBPP w