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Sailing club since 1960, the Carnac Yacht Club welcomes you from March to November.

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• From 01 February 2024 to 31 March 2024
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Carnac is popular with classes ranging from Toppers to 18ft Skiffs, and welcomes huge fleets at Eurocat. Andy Rice has tips for sailing at the Breton venue.

Carnac is one of the most popular sailing venues in northern France. Set in Quiberon Bay, it offers the best of the Atlantic breezes but is also well sheltered from the Atlantic swell by the Quiberon peninsula. On shore, Carnac has a reputation as a great party town, with restaurants and bars that stay open well past the bedtime of any selfrespecting athlete. The RS fleets have been to Carnac regularly for their Easter regatta, as have the 18ft Skiffs which use this regatta as the European leg of their World Series. In 2004, both of these fleets are taking a break from Carnac, but the annual cat-fest known as Eurocat will be taking place here in late April, while the Toppers are returning for their second World Championship to be hosted in these waters. The last time the Toppers were there in 1998, more than 200 boats attended.

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How to get to Carnac from Britain

The most popular route is on the Portsmouth to St Malo ferry. Skiff sailor Rob Dulson says the trip is easy. ‘You get on the ferry about 1900hrs at Portsmouth, and then you have some food and drink Guinness until the early hours. Then some sod wakes you up far too early in the morning, and it’s about two and a half hours to Carnac. It works very well, we’ve even managed to fit in a race on the afternoon that we’ve arrived.’ The RS class event has always been organised around the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, and so most sailors like to head back home the moment they’ve packed up and been to the prizegiving.

For those who have to be back at their desks the following morning, Martin Wadhams from LDC Racing Sailboats advises an alternative route on the way home. ‘You can’t get an overnight ferry back from St Malo to Portsmouth, but you can drive to Caen, which is about a four hour drive from Carnac, and get an overnight back to Portsmouth from there.’

However, the Caen option usually entails a mad dash after the last race to make it to the ferry on time. Wadhams tried to make it once but missed the Caen ferry, so decided to press on to Calais. This was not an enjoyable experience, he admits. ‘It’s a gnarly old drive from Caen to Calais, on slow, windy roads. It would have been quicker waiting six hours for the next ferry,’ he says. If you don’t need to rush, then spending an extra night in Carnac and driving up to St Malo the following morning is probably the better bet.

Where to Stay in Carnac

There is plenty of accommodation in and around Carnac, but as always it pays to get in early, especially during the summer holiday months. Formula 18 cat sailor Martin Chadder makes the annual pilgrimage to Eurocat, and has made the Hotel Plancton his regular spot. ‘It is right opposite the beach, and Thierry who runs it is a really nice bloke. He doesn’t mind people walking in with their drysuits still on. And he’s happy to let you put your wet gear in his laundry room.’ The added bonus is that the Plancton has an internet connection, and the owner knows all the local weather websites. Another hotel just a stone’s throw from the Yacht Club de Carnac is Les Rochers, Martin Wadhams’ preferred choice. ‘You’re no distance at all from the club. You can draw the curtains and wait for them to hoist the Z flag,’ he says.

Another recommendation is the Ibis Hotel, just around the corner. Rob Dulson prefers to use the campsite a couple of miles up the road. ‘The club organises it, and it is basically cheap accommodation in caravans. The atmosphere is great there. If you want to do the late-night party thing in town then you’re probably better staying in Carnac itself, but for the latenight whisky brigade and people with families the campsite is a great option. When the skiffs go there it’s usually two-thirds full of sailors, and we do our own barbeques.’

For every major regatta, there’s always a bar that tends to become the regatta bar. Martin Wadhams says the Square Bar fulfils this purpose at RS events. But Martin Chadder reckons Desperados is the bar to go to for beer with an extra kick — tequila and lime juice.

When it comes to restaurants you’re spoilt for choice in Carnac, with all types of food on offer, from pizzas, steaks to the local seafood. Chadder says real seafood fanatics should also head four or five miles down the road to La Trinité sur Mer, where the seafood is really special. This is the base for many of the ORMA 60-foot trimarans, so it is worth a visit in its own right when these impressive boats are moored up.

Launching from Carnac

La Trinité is also the place if you need sailmakers, boatbuilders, mast manufacturers, almost anything you could imagine wanting to put on your boat. Being an 18ft Skiff sailor, Rob Dulson knows all about rushing up there mid-regatta to put his ship back together.

As for launching, there are two choices, either off the beach or from the harbour. The beach is wide and sandy, and is the safest way to launch in most conditions. The trouble is, the tide goes in and out a long way, so you could have quite a walk back at the end of the day, depending on the state of the tide. On the other hand, the harbour can require good boathandling skills to avoid crunching your boat. Martin Chadder says this can become a real problem with more than 200 cats at Eurocat. ‘My advice is to get on the slipway early, and then as soon as you’re released from the beach, hit the water and go.

Don’t be too laid back. If it’s gusty and the wind is swirling, it can be tricky with 20 other cats in the harbour. So in the morning, I make sure my boat is on that ramp in pole position. ‘The other place to launch is off the beach. At Eurocat there are tractors to take the trailers down on to the beach. There are a few rocks on the beach, so make a note of where they are when the tide is out.

If it’s high tide, remember where those rocks are.’ Chadder says about 60 per cent go from the beach and 40 per cent from the harbour. ‘The other problem with the harbour is coming in. If it’s blowing offshore, you have to sail almost head to wind to reach the ramp. And the ramp shelves off very steeply, so you have to be virtually touching the ramp before the crew can safely jump off the bows.’

Sailing in Carnac

Sailing in Quiberon Bay is usually quite straightforward. Once you are off the beach and have successfully avoided the rocks, the bay is a relatively safe and flat-water venue. But from a racing perspective there are some subtleties. It is easy to ignore the effect of the tide, but Martin Wadhams says he has seen local sailors make good use of the current. ‘The tide is quite circular,’ he says. ‘It goes from left to right, as you look out to sea. Although the tides aren’t that strong, you ignore them at your peril.’ The prevailing south-westerly wind blowing in from the Atlantic blows over the top of the Quiberon peninsula.

If you go for a drive along the peninsula, you might be surprised to see just how rough the conditions are on the rugged Atlantic coast.

It makes you appreciate just how flat the water is in the bay, albeit a bit of a chop can kick up at times. From the south-westerly direction, Rob Dulson reckons there is an advantage in going left and coming into the windward mark on the port layline.

As for downwind, he says most 18-footers do a straight hoist on starboard gybe, but he has seen Danish sailor Flemming Clausen do very well out of his favoured tactic of gybe-setting and going down the left side of the run.

For the Eurocat event, where more than 200 boats can be on the water, Martin Chadder offers this advice. ‘We normally sail the F18 class, where you can have 100-120 boats in the fleet. Sometimes they have one big start line. Last year they decided to split us into four groups and sail a round-robin series, but they messed up a bit. I prefer to have one big start. ‘In the massed fleet start, which tactic you choose really depends on how brave you are. If it’s a starboard biased line, then by all means if you’re brave enough, go for pole position at the committee boat. I tend to start in the second rank and tack straight away to clear my air on port tack.’

Chadder says this usually gets him a reasonable position at the top mark. ‘Starting is crucial in these massed fleets. If you have a bad start and you’re in the 30s or 40s at the first mark, you might get back to the 20s, but you probably won’t get into the top 10.’ Chadder says the Eurocat race committee usually sets old-style Olympic courses of the ‘triangle-sausage’ variety.

There is also a long distance race of about 40-50 miles in length, usually around a local island called Houatt Island, or if it is windier then an extended race in the bay, closer to the shore. Doing your homework before the race is well worth the effort, according to Chadder. ‘If the wind is blowing across the land, try to sail up the beat beforehand, to see if there are any wind bends.

There are definite ways to go in certain conditions. A group of us usually try to sail out early and check the beat once or twice, by doing split tacks.’ Chadder has done six or seven consecutive years at the regatta, and says he intends to keep on returning to Eurocat for many years to come. ‘If you’re going to do one overseas event in your cat, Carnac is the one. All the top names come to it, the top Tornado teams and Formula 18 teams. It’s second only in importance to Round Texel.’

The event is open to virtually all types of catamaran, including kids’ cats. ‘My little boy has a Hobie Dragoon, and there’s even a class for those,’ says Chadder. ‘Cat coach Brian Phipps often takes a Rib there so he can coach the kids on where to launch and how to get round the course. It’s a good family event as well as a big racing regatta.’

Ashore in Carnac

If racing is blown off or you’re spending a few extra days there, it’s worth checking out the Carnac websites for ideas.

There’s lots of archaeological interest in the area, and a Prehistory Museum which claims to be the ‘best in the world for the Megalithic period’. Saint Michel Tumulus is worth a climb for great views over the Quiberon Bay, while further afield the charming cove of Le Pô shelters several oyster farms where you can buy fresh oysters and shellfish or the ancient fishing village of Saint Colomban deserves a visit.

Further information

Yacht Club de Carnac: www.yccarnac.com

Official Tourist Office: www.carnac.fr

General information: www.ot-carnac.fr

Archaeological interest: www.mkzdk.org/carnac/guiden.html

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Club de voile depuis 1960, le Yacht-Club de Carnac accueille, petits et grands, de mars à novembre . Passionnés, débutants, confirmés ou professionnels, l’équipe du club et ses moniteurs offrent la possibilité de naviguer en toute sécurité, sur la magnifique Baie de Quiberon .

En catamaran, dériveur, planche à voile, kayak, paddle, aviron, voilier traditionnel,  venez naviguer sur du matériel récent, adapté et de qualité.

Seul, en famille ou entre amis, à l’année ou de façon occasionnelle, une équipe de professionnels répond à votre demande. Le club accueille les groupes sur réservation (Comité d’entreprise, EVJF/EVG, séminaire etc.). Des temps de formation pour obtenir le permis côtier et pour devenir moniteur de voile sont également mis en place durant l’année.

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Des stages de voile , pour enfants et adultes, sont organisés pendant les vacances scolaires (Pâques, été, Toussaint), du lundi au vendredi sur demi-journées. Un encadrement de qualité et des supports adaptés, garantis par le Club, sont proposés à tous les niveaux . Le Yacht-Club a été labellisé, pour la seconde fois, « Meilleure école de voile », en 2018.

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Victor M. Mukhin was born in 1946 in the town of Orsk, Russia. In 1970 he graduated the Technological Institute in Leningrad. Victor M. Mukhin was directed to work to the scientific-industrial organization "Neorganika" (Elektrostal, Moscow region) where he is working during 47 years, at present as the head of the laboratory of carbon sorbents.     Victor M. Mukhin defended a Ph. D. thesis and a doctoral thesis at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (in 1979 and 1997 accordingly). Professor of Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. Scientific interests: production, investigation and application of active carbons, technological and ecological carbon-adsorptive processes, environmental protection, production of ecologically clean food.   

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