The Omaha Beach Nautical Club animates the leisure of Vierville

This presentation by Vierville highlights the diversity of leisure activities offered to summer visitors. At low tide, the long beach discovered playgrounds, rocks and the pontoons of the artificial port installed during the Landing of June 6, 1944, where fishermen searched for crabs, bouquets and shells. The Omaha Club offered children games, swimming lessons and swimming supervision. His motor boat was used for sea walks and water skiing.

Created five years earlier in Vierville, the Omaha Beach Nautical Club wanted to offer activities to young people, local families and holidaymakers. Sailing was his main activity. Initiation courses on Caravelles and Vauriens were divided into "borders" of fifteen days, including twelve sessions at sea, in the morning or afternoon depending on the tides and the weather. Private advanced training classes were also offered on Vaurien, 420, Fireball, 470 and 485, as well as on Optimist for young people. The instructors were graduates of the French Sailing Federation; regattas and training benefited from supervision and a security service.

Acquired two years ago, the clubhouse facing the sea hosted meetings and the sailing school. It included a bar, a secretariat and a veil room for the equipment. Méchouis, rallies, walks and evenings completed the program.

The newspaper recalls the participation of the CNOB in the French Fireball championships in Verdon, Gironde: the representatives cited, Eric Defortescu, François Durand and Bordeaux-Gentils, had obtained sixth and twelfth places. He attributes a part of the club's dynamism to its president, Mr. Bordeaux, who has been in office for almost two years. He had previously worked for the Tour de Marne nautical company and had been captain of the French canoeing team for ten years, participating in particular in the World Championships in Italy and the Melbourne Olympic Games.

The committee also included two vice-chairs, Ms. Voisinet and Mr. Desprez, Anne-Marie Durand as secretary, as well as Mr. Defortescu and Ms. Baudet. Patrice Bordeaux was in charge of the regattas; François Loyer and Patrice Gardot of the leisure. The three graduate instructors were François Durant, Dominique Blanchard and Jean Montier.

The club operated mainly in July and August, with about thirty boats: Caravelles, Vauriens, 420, 470, 485, Fireball and Optimist. For the announced season, he was to organize the League's Basse-Normandie championships in Optimist on July 14 and Fireball on August 11. A women's regatta was scheduled for August 2, the Nagys Cup for the 470 on August 15 and the club's great regattas, all series, on August 24. Outings and participation in the coast regattas completed these appointments. The contribution was set at 50 F per family, with special conditions for communities and groups. The article is signed F. Mr.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The wording of the results at the French championship does not allow each of the two places to be assigned with certainty to the crews mentioned.
- The source uses the spellings Durand and Durant; they are preserved according to the passages.

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