Clube Naval de Cascais

The Clube Naval de Cascais (CNC) was founded in 1938 and is primarily dedicated to the promotion and development of sailing in Portugal and the upholding of the traditional values of sportsmanship and the pursuit of excellence that has been reached by many of its sailors at both national and international level. CNC is located on the bay of Cascais, right on the Atlantic Ocean and 11 miles from Lisbon, one of the world acknowledged best venues to organize all type of sailing competitions. Since the 1950´s, CNC operates a sailing school for all age groups and, since 2006, runs a disabled sailing program and both are presently the most active in Portugal. CNC also offers official courses for all levels of national amateur licenses to operate boats. Also, CNC organizes competition teams in different classes, namely Optimist, 420 and Laser. Presently, the most active fleets in the CNC are the Dragon, SB20, ILCA, 420, Hobbie Cat, Snipe and Optimist along with several IRC/ORC yachts. Sailors formed and trained in the CNC have, over the years regularly won several major international sailing titles in varied classes including disabled sailing. CNC sailors have regularly constituted the majority of the portuguese olympic sailing team and at the 2012 London Olympics CNC was represented by 9 sailors competing in 5 olympic sail classes. The CNC runs a very active annual schedule of different type of regattas that represented 115 days of sail racing. These regattas range from monthly club races to regattas for international centerboard and keel boat classes, like national selection, regional, national championships. CNC also organizes regattas for IRC/ORC yachts.