Neire Mâove

A new build of 1991, launched on 4 July 1992, chosen to represent a family of boats — the Cotentin schooner, a technological result of the work of both sailors and boatbuilders. The type first appeared in the middle of the nineteenth century, at first with a lugger rig and later with a schooner rig; it was a typical boat of the French coast and the bays of Sark and Guernsey, used in the fishery, as a pilot boat and for all sorts of small jobs.

Her design is based on the shapes of the Lilian, built by H. Bisson of Guernsey, of St Peter Port, used in the fishery and as a pilot boat.

She is an open-sea ship able to face the rough seas and bad weather of the Channel as well as taking the ground in the small ports of the west coast and the islands.

She is used as a charter ship in the English Channel and along the coasts of England and France, for the sea education of young people and others, and as a traditional vessel at sailing festivals.

Her name, Neire Mâove, means black seagull in the Norman dialect.