Cannes International Regatta (France, April 1914)

Part 3: 6.50 meter yachts (National series)

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• Presentation of the regatta
• 6.50 meter yachts (National series) (Part 1)
  • Pouzet - Lotus
  • A. Isnard - Caravana
  • Barberis and Marsang - Frédou
  • Mollard - Banco
  • Lorenzi and Gasche - M'Amie-II
  • J. Biancheri - Quand-Même
  • Louis Vensan - Nénuphar
  • Visquis and Rainaud - Gigolette
  • Jules Deseilligny - Z
  • Giacopello - Ondino
• 6.50 meter yachts (National series) (Part 2)
• 25 ton, 10 meter and 8 meter yachts
• 6 meter yachts

See also:

• France
• Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes, France)

Presentation of the regatta

The international regatta organized on 14, 15, 18 and 20 April 1914 by Société des Régates Cannoises (now, Yacht Club de Cannes) attracted some of the most famous yachtsmen of the time. King of Spain Alfonso XIII, named President of Honor of the organizing yacht club, competed on his yacht Tonino.
The participant's list (leaflet), kept in the municipal archives, gives for each competitor the yacht club of affiliation, as well as the names of the boat, of the shipyard where she was built, and of the architect who designed her. The owner's private signals are also illustrated.

Ivan Sache, 25 January 2018

6.50 meter yachts (National series)

Pouzet - Lotus

Pouzet's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 29 January 2018

1. Pouzet - Lotus, Club Nautique de Nice..
The private signal is red with a white square diamond itself charged with a red square diamond.

Ivan Sache, 29 January 2018

A. Isnard - Caravana

A. Isnard's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 30 January 2018

2. A. Isnard - Caravana, Sporting Club de Menton.
The private signal is divided red-white-blue-white-red according to the descending diagonal.

Ivan Sache, 30 January 2018

Barberis and Marsang - Frédou

Barberis and Marsang's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 30 January 2018

3. Barberis and Marsang - Frédou, Sporting Club de Menton.
The private signal is white with a red rectangle in the center.

Ivan Sache, 30 January 2018

Mollard - Banco

Mollard's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 30 January 2018

4. Mollard - Banco, Société des Régates Cannoises.
The private signal is green with a black croupier's rake.

Ivan Sache, 30 January 2018

Lorenzi and Gasche - M'Amie-II

Lorenzi and Gasche's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 30 January 2018

5. Lorenzi and Gasche - M'Amie-II, Sporting Club de Menton.
The private signal is green with a white diamond in the center and two white triangles in the upper left and lower right corners.

Ivan Sache, 30 January 2018

J. Biancheri - Quand-Même

J. Biancheri's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 30 January 2018

6. J. Biancheri - Quand-Même, Sporting Club de Menton.
The private signal is white with a black anchor.

Ivan Sache, 30 January 2018

Louis Vensan - Nénuphar

Louis Vensan's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 30 January 2018

7. Louis Vensan - Nénuphar, Sporting Club de Menton.
The private signal blue with a white border and a white triangle in the center.

Ivan Sache, 30 January 2018

Visquis and Rainaud - Gigolette

Visquis and Rainaud's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 31 January 2018

8. Visquis and Rainaud - Gigolette, Club Nautique de Nice.
The private signal is s black with a white star in the center.

Charles Visquis was Director of the Société Générale bank and Vice Consul of Sweden. He is listed on the 1907 Yearbook of Club Nautique de Nice with a completely different private signal.

Ivan Sache, 31 January 2018

Jules Deseilligny - Z

Jules Deseilligny's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 31 January 2018

9. Jules Deseilligny - Z, Union des Yachtsmen de Cannes.
The private signal is green with a red triangle placed along the hoist and reaching the fly, charged with three green stars.

AJules Pierrot-Deseilligny (1868-1918) was the son of Alfred Deseilligny, director of Le Creusot forges, member of the board of directors of the Decazeville colliery, and Minister in the short-lived De Broglie government (1873-1874). Deseilligny spent his life in Broye, near Le Creusot; his two hobbies were yachting in Cannes, where he owned the wealthy Villa Roccamare, and astronomy.
Deseilligny was President of the Union des Yachtsmen de Cannes. He published in the Bulletin officiel du Yacht Club de France, September 1911, a paper entitled L'origine du Yachting en Méditerranée et l'Union des Yachtsmen de Cannes.

Deseilligny joined in 1896 the Société astronomique de France where he chaired a group of "selenographers", composed of amateur astronomers seized by "moon torment", a collective restlessness calling for the observation of the moon as an observable word and a gate to the knowledge of outer space. Equipped with a hand telescope (x 160), Deseilligny focused his observations on two sites, Crater Flammarion and, mostly, Palus Putredinis. Deseilligny published six studies, mostly including drawings: Projet d'études sélénographiques, fait pour la société astronomique de France (1906); Variations observées sur la Lune (1906) ; Aristillus et les Brèches illusoires des Cirques lunaires; Paradoxe du nègre (1907); Un site Lunaire (le Palus Putredinis, 3 volumes presenting 137 drawings; and Hypothèse sur l'origine des reliefs terrestres (1910).
The relevance of Deseilligny's observations was recognized by the academic community. Soon after his death, a petition was tabled at the International Astronomical Union. to name a crater after him, which was done in 1935 (official record).
[L. Guignard. 2014. Le "tourment lunaire" de Jules Pierrot-Deseilligny. Pratiques amateurs d'observation de la Lune. Romantiques, 166, 65-78].

Ivan Sache, 31 January 2018

Giacopello - Ondino

Giacopello's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 31 January 2018

10. Giacopello - Ondino, Société des Régates de Monaco.
The private signal is divided white blue by the descending diagonal.

Ivan Sache, 31 January 2018