Les Glénans

Les Glénans is a famous French sailing school, which was founded in 1947 by Hélène and Philippe Viannay, first for young people who like themselves during the war in the Resistance. Today, it has the form of a non-profit association (French: association loi 1901 publique d' utilité ). The head office is in Paris.

The name of the school points to the oldest site, the Breton Glénan islands ( the pronunciation of " Glénan " and " Glénans " in French is the same). Meanwhile, the school leads sailing courses also at five other bases in France, temporarily came to another in Ireland ( 1985 to 2011 as a freelance Glenans Irish Sailing Club ). In addition, sailing trips are offered which take place either by the bases or from outside France (eg in Italy or the West Indies ). Courses are generally conducted in French; in Ireland they were carried out temporarily in English and French, offered individual courses in Italy and in Italian (usually bilingual in French). Pure theory courses will host the school in Paris and as correspondence courses; since sailing licenses not play a major role in France, the Glénans school oriented focus - in theory and practice - to the sailing experience.

The 1961 Les Glénans published in new editions and over again substantially revised sailing manual is a standard work in France.

Bases

On the Glénans bases, participants will be less with all courses for dinghy and catamaran sailing, surfing, kite surfing housed ( from 2013 ) and some Kielboot-/Yachtkursen. Depending on the base and to some extent depending on the season, in addition to buildings with beds and tents or yurts - isb. for the minor participants - are used.

• Glénan Islands (French often simply called " l' archipel " for " Archipelago " ), in the south of Concarneau and Fouesnant, Brittany. Used the islands Bananec, Drénec, Fort Cigogne and Penfret ( keelboats, dinghies, catamarans, windsurfing); also building in Concarneau ( keelboats ), starting from there, the sailing
• Ile d'Arz in the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany, near Vannes ( keelboats, dinghies, catamarans); Sailing of Vannes
• Paimpol in North Brittany ( starting point of sailing ); also be counted to the used exclusively by Les Glénans Ile Verte in the Bréhat Islands and one farm house Trieux near its mouth into the sea ( Keel Boats )
• Bonifacio on Corsica ( keelboats, dinghies, catamarans)
• Marseillan Thau near Montpellier in southern France ( keelboats, dinghies, catamarans); Sailing from Sète

• Former base: Ireland, these included: Baltimore in County Cork ( keelboats; starting point of sailing ) and Collanmore Iceland in Clew Bay on the west coast of Ireland near Westport, County Mayo ( dinghies, catamarans, and occasionally starting point for trips to Baltimore ). The Irish were first base was founded by Les Glénans as a regular base, then was self-employed from 1985 to 2011 as Glenans Irish Sailing Club. From 2010/2011 the French Sailing School took over the Irish section after local financial problems again as an additional base, was then also again spoken there since 2011 in addition to English French regularly. Due to unresolved financial problems presented Les Glénans the end of 2013, the courses in Ireland. The Irish sail training tradition in Baltimore and on Collanmore Iceland in Clew Bay was in 2009 as the longest existing in Ireland (the country 's longest established sail training organization ).

Sailing book

The 1961 Les Glénans published sailing manual Cours de navigation of Glénans (about: sailing course from Les Glénans ) is a standard work in France. It appears in the seventh, repeated heavily revised edition since 2010. It deals in particular with sailing maneuvers (including material and knot tying, etc. ), navigation, meteorology, maintenance of boats, safety and life on board ( seamanship ). It devotes itself dinghies, catamarans and keelboats (or boats), with a focus on coastal sailing.

First documents for a sailing manual were reproduced from Les Glénans 1951. 1961 and 1962 a first textbook was published in two volumes. From 1972, the book was published one-volume ( Nouveau Cours des Glénans ) and 1975 and 1978 respectively translated into Italian and English. In the following years (1982, 1990, 1995 ) further French editions published. Has been completely revised the sailing course for the 6th edition of 2002 ( translation into Italian and Spanish in 2003 and 2004 respectively) and also for the 7th edition, 2010. According to Les Glénans were sold over the years (until June 2007) more than 800,000 copies. The book was published in 1986 under the title "The sail 's Guide" in German translation, but so had major shortcomings that Glénans school forbade a second edition.

Fleet

The Glénans Sailing School uses a variety of different keel boats (from 17 feet ), yachts, catamarans, dinghies and surfboards, the technical progress and the changing expectations of sailing students over the years - isb. be adjusted - to faster dinghies and comfortable yachts.

From the fifties and sixties, the sailing school had gradually integrating several types of boat design for can ( Vaurien, Caravelle, Corsaire, Mousquetaire etc.). The early, affordable boats with their good sailing characteristics also wore on their involvement in Les Glénans addition significantly to the dissemination of sailing in France. Until about the nineties left the school draw boats for themselves. Since then, series keelboats and yachts are exclusively bought later that are clearly adapted in part for use in schools; However, currently (as of 2013) also remain many keelboats ( Glénans 5.7, schooner Folavoalh ) and individual yachts ( 33 Glénans and of course Sereine ) from the time of DIY projects. For individual cruises also sailing boats are chartered, including occasional Kajütkatamarankurse.

The school occasionally experimented with other sailing offers. In 2006 there were courses in Trimaransegeln, 2013 in kitesurfing.

Well-known members

Over the years, the sailing school had some well-known members. Although the focus of Les Glénans not placed on the training of racing sailors - even today ( 2014) there are relatively few number of training courses - have emerged from the ranks of the sailing students and teachers several well-known racers, especially ocean race sailor. These include ( in alphabetical order):

• Franck Cammas ( as a 15- year-old pupil first, with 17 years sailing instructor, with 21 years Brevet d' Etat / training for professional sailing instructor at Marseillan- base ): successful multihull ocean race sailor, including the fastest circumnavigation ( Trophée Jules Verne 2010)
• Éric Carret, crew member of the America's Cup
• Éric Defert ( fr) ( a sailing instructor for advanced and work on the conservation of boats and other material, 1995 /1996), offshore racers, including participants in the transatlantic single-handed races Solitaire du Figaro and Minitransat
• Jeanne Grégoire (fr) (Sailing teacher ), Hochseeregattaseglerin, including participant in the Minitransat 2001, the Solitaire du Figaro 2002 and 2008 (5th place ) and the Transat AG2R ( 2nd place with Gérald Veniard )
• Isabelle Joschke, winner of the first stage of the Minitransat Charente -Maritime / Bahia 2007
• ( Sail learned when he helped a 18 -year-old volunteer in the maintenance of boats and other material from Les Glénans ) Francis Joyon: successful offshore racers, including fastest single-handed circumnavigation (2004-2005; once again since 2008)
• Karen Leibovici (fr), Hochseeregattaseglerin, including participant in the Vendée Globe 2005 ( fourth female Weltumseglerin under a Vendée Globe ) and winner of the Mini Fastnet 2001
• Serge Madec ( sailing school ): Record sailors, including fastest Atlantic crossing (1988, 1990)
• Erwan Le Roux, offshore racers, including Transat Jacques Vabre participants in the 2009 and the Route du Rhum 2010
• Vincent Riou (training for professional sailing instructor [ Brevet d' État ], then working at the base Concarneau ), offshore racers, including winner of the Vendée Globe 2004/2005 and ( in the rankings for two -person crews, with Sébastien Josse (fr )) of the Fastnet race 2007
• Jean -Luc Van Den Heede (fr) (Sailing students and teachers, 1964-1969 ), offshore racers, including runner-up of Minitransat 1977 and 1979, the Vendée Globe 1993 ( third - placed 1990) and the Route du Rhum 1998, as well as record - Einhandweltumsegler against the prevailing winds (ie eastward ) on a Monohull 2004 ( unbroken, as of 2010)

More sailing related persons from among the members are:

• Henri Desjoyeaux ( fr) ( one of the first sailing instructor ) founded, later ( 1956) in La Forêt- Fouesnant (near the Glénan Archipelago) a first workshop for boat work, that the development of the sport boat harbor Port-la- Forêt ( fr) contributed today is a training center for many successful offshore racers, including Desjoyeux 'famous son Michel Desjoyeaux
• Jean -Marie Finot, yacht designer, drew inter alia, the spread in France regatta yacht Beneteau Figaro (I)
• Maud Fontenoy ( sail student 1998-2000), sailed by Dee Caffari is the second woman and the first place eighth sailors the world non-stop single-handed against the prevailing winds (but not a complete circumnavigation under ISAF rules ), from 2009, Speaker of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC ) UNESCO and the World Ocean Network
• Philippe Harlé ( technical director of Glénans to 1963 ), yacht designer
• Jeromine Pasteur ( fr), sailor and adventurer

Other famous members are or were:

• Christian Cabrol (fr), a cardiac surgeon and Professor
• Laurent Joffrin (fr), editor of Libération
• Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France 1988-1991
• Anne Sylvestre, French singer-songwriter who ( The friends of that time) used by the Les Glénans island Drénec and sailing mentioned, for example, in her song Les amis d' autrefois