Regatta Regatta

Today, all the top yachtsmen remember having started in a Vaurien. Today, she is found in all sorts of unexpected places, peppered across the globe, as evidenced by the annual World Championships that bring together about one hundred boats from 10 or 12 countries, and by the mail that comes to us from the most distant reaches of the world. Despite considerable envy, her rivals have never got the better of her. It should be said that right from the start she had some hefty friends: the Centre nautique des Glénan, the Touring Club de France, and the magazine Les Cahiers du Yachting. And that she always met with enthusiasm and devotion in her national associations, then in the International Committee, the CIV, set up to coordinate national efforts and which has benefited from the unstinting commitment of its chairmen and members.