History of the club

CERN Yatching Club has more than 50 years of history, we think it is important not to forget our origins and the people that contributed in the past. For this reason, here we have a page, that will summarize the milestones, the past presidents and some interesting events from the previous years.

President Cronology

1968 YCC is founded, previously it was a sailing-section of the CERN Nautical Club (president Roger Florent)

1968—1969	Jean-Claude Cateau	(F)
1970—1971	Gerhard Kesseler	(D)
1972—1974?	Ted Shaw	(UK)
1975—1976?	Daniel Boimond	(F)
1977—1987?	Chick Nichols	(UK) HONORARY PRESIDENT
1988—1992	Noel Le Vasseur	(F)
1993—1999	Paul Gelissen	(NL)
2000—2005	Gigi Rolandi	(I)
2006—2009	Tomasz Ladzinski	(PL)
2010—2012	Alessandro Cerri	(I)
2013—2015	Luca Canali	(I)
2016—2018	Valentina Venturi	(I)
2019—2020	Luigi Gallerani	(I)
2021—....	Alberto Pace	(I)

When the dates are not sure, a ? appears

Member evolution

Member data are available in the year reports. Here just a summer of the count.
Record year is 2019, with 412 total member on 10 Apr 2019, (was 411 on 2018 end of the season) and counting...

Interesting stories