NDC Voile Angers
NDC Voile Angers is a sailing club and sailing school on Lac de Maine in Angers, founded in 1969. Based at the PAVOA leisure park, it offers year-round initiation, leisure sailing and competition for everyone from age 6. The fleet includes Optimist, Open Skiff, Hobie Cat and ILCA, complemented by windsurfing, catamaran and cruising. Permanent FFVoile instructors and seasonal CQP IV coaches run the youth school, adult courses, holiday camps and competitions. With more than 200 members each year, the Sport Santé label and École Française de Voile status, the club is a central hub of Angevin sailing.
History
NDC Voile Angers was founded in 1969 as both a club and a sailing school and looks back on more than 57 years of sailing on Lac de Maine. The club grew around the artificial lake: in the 1960s gravel was extracted near the Saint-Serge district; after about ten years of quarrying, the former pit became Lac de Maine in 1971, which the city reforested, landscaped and developed as a leisure area. There NDC Voile established itself to promote leisure sailing, sport sailing and teaching for a broad public from age 6 – women and men, children, people with and without disabilities. Over the years the offer expanded to include year-round courses, camps, training and instructor education (CQP Initiateur de Voile, BPJEPS in partnership with CREPS Pays de la Loire). Today the club is labelled École Française de Voile and Sport Santé, counts over 200 members annually and is run by an elected board together with permanent instructors and seasonal CQP IV staff. League regattas, club sails, festivities and volunteer commitment continue to shape club life on Lac de Maine.
Information
Facilities
Located at PAVOA – Lac de Maine leisure park; clubhouse; own fleet; lakeside weather station; rental of Hobie Cat and windsurf equipment from March to December.
Activities
Year-round courses and leisure sailing, holiday camps, private lessons and rental, youth school, league regattas and club events, group offers for schools and companies, CQP IV instructor training, Sport Santé label (Voile Pleine Forme).
Youth section
Sport school for children and teenagers aged 6 to 15 with Optimist, dinghy (Open Skiff), windsurfing and wing; initiation and advanced sessions with FFVoile instructors.