Club Nautique Morgien - 1110 Morges

Club Nautique Morgien (CNM) is a long-established sailing club on Lake Geneva in Morges, combining sport, training and community on the water since 1916. At Place de la Navigation, the club offers a modern clubhouse with terrace, harbour facilities, a club crane, a sailing school and its own fleet of dinghies and keelboats. The programme ranges from youth camps and dinghy courses to Tuesday evening regattas and in-house races, plus wingfoil, foiling and leisure groups. Flagship events such as Granbordenuy, Semaine du soir, La Tradition de Morges and the Défi du Léman Juniors shape regatta life on the lakeshore.

Morges, Schweiz

History

Club Nautique Morgien was founded on 18 March 1916 at the initiative of Jean Pachoud together with eleven friends of the lake at the Hôtel du Mont-Blanc in Morges. Under the founder's active presidency, the club flourished from 1917 to 1921 when petrol was scarce and many young people learned to sail. Early on, CNM built links with other sailing societies on Lake Geneva, especially in Geneva, and organised regattas that later gained international standing. The 1920s brought a difficult period with fewer boats and members until young sailors revived the club from 1929. During the Second World War, weekend regattas continued; in 1943 year-round sailing courses were offered to around thirty youngsters, and in 1944 dredging of the harbour began after long preparation, removing over 20,000 m³ of sand and silt. From 1964 the sailing school was rebuilt on a new basis and became the club's central youth engine. In 1965 the club decided to build a new clubhouse, opened in 1966 with one of the finest terraces on Lake Geneva. In 1968 the club had 420 members, Lake Geneva championships were held over two weekends and the Granbordenuy regatta was sailed for the first time. Around 1976 CNM reached nearly 1,000 members; Pierre Fehlmann completed the first transatlantic and later the first Jules Verne Trophy attempt. The 1980s brought further offshore success, including victory in the 1985–86 round-the-world race on UBS Switzerland. In 1991 the club celebrated its 75th anniversary with many sporting achievements. CNM has remained a fixture of Swiss sailing for decades, with strong youth development, international records and major events on the Morges waterfront.

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Facilities

Clubhouse with terrace on Lake Geneva, harbour with crane and berths, sailing school, restaurant, fleet of dinghies and keelboats, wingfoil and foiling infrastructure, changing rooms, lockers, shared use with Société de Sauvetage de Morges.

Activities

Regattas, dinghy and junior camps, sailing licence courses (Permis voile), leisure group, wingfoil group, foiling group, corporate team building, club cruise, Tradition de Morges, Granbordenuy, Semaine du soir, crew exchange and in-house club cup.

Youth section

Strong youth section with sailing school led by Didier Lenormand; juniors make up about a quarter of members and 250 to 300 children take part in summer camps each year.