English presentation

I – General remarks.

The Harbour Office of the « Marines de Cogolin » is the head office of the harbour’s public company The company was created on June 29, 1964 -before the harbour was built- for a period of ninety-nine years, safe it be dissolved before or its regulations be modified.

Its first task was to build a harbour divided into a private and a public harbours. The building started in 1968 and ended in 1980. It was built on a swampy area.

The harbour occupies 23 out of the 40 hectares of the land on which is built the Marines. It includes three private ponds and five blocks of flats :

La Galiote, the Cascadelle, and the Brigantine, from the name of the ponds that skirt them,

Les Deux Voiles

Les Villas sur la Giscle

The Government has given a fifty-year granting on this land to the « Marines of Cogolin » company. The Government remains the only owner of the harbour and keeps the right to buy the whole complex after twenty years in exchange of financial compensations. The Government has exerted its right of supervising while the harbour was being built. Indeed, all plans were ratified by the Secretary of Tourism and the Territory. The granting bore not only on the infrastructures that make up the harbour itself, but also on the equipment and the utilities required for the running of the harbour (the electricity, the sanitary installations…).

The symbol of the Marines de Cogolin harbour is made of three large sails because the three main ponds bear the name of these three large sails.

Boundaries of the harbour :

The ponds : the Galiote, the Brigantine, the Cascadelle and the public harbour.

The berths that are fit out with water and electricity, and for the upper categories, with a phone line.

• The main jetty
• The counter-jetty
• The harbour office and the border of the quay, which is two-metre wide.

II – Legal statute

The company’s legal name is :

SOCIETE ANONYME DU PORT DE PLAISANCE « LES MARINES DE COGOLIN ».

Why is a joint stock company ?

The company is made of shareholders who are lessees of the private area of the harbour.

The original registered capital amounted at 20,000,000 FRS, divided into 12,500 shares of 1,600 FRS, which was the price of one share when the company was created. Each year, the French Government gets one fiftieth back, so that after fifty years of existence, they will be the only owner of the harbour.

The public company of the « Marines of Cogolin » harbour manages two different areas :

• A private area made up by three ponds : Galiote, Cascadelle, Brigantine ;
• A public area made up by the public harbour.

The company pays a rent to the Government for the rental and the equipping of the seaside.