Nautic Activities
This is all about moving and wandering Calvi is above all the destination for sailing.
This is considered as a key economic development, Calvi, as the first sailing resort in Corsica, has become t A place with indisputable assets and a full range of activities (please, refer to Natural Sites). A full range of water activities and services are available.he ideal destination for a holiday by the sea.
Scuba diving, jet ski, wake board, water-skiing, windsurfing, catamarans, sea cruises, sailing and motor boats rental and repair, a yachting port with 450 moorrings, an organized mooring system, supplies, crane operations, delivery on board services, ship chandlers. Altogether, there are about 30 water sport clubs
and societies in the town center and three kilometres around.
Sailing events :
- La croisière Corse (the Corsican Cruise)
- La traversée la Seyne sur Mer-Calvi (the crossing from La Seyne sur Mer to Calvi)
Date : April
- La Croisière Bleue (the Blue Cruise)
- La traversée Antibes-Calvi (the crossing from Antibes to Calvi)
Date : end of May, beginning of June
- Le rassemblement des voiles latines (The gathering of « voiles latines »)
Date : October Organisation : Calvi Nautique Club,
Phone number : 04 95 65 10 65
- GénéraliMéditerranée
(a stage for a classification for the solitary Figaro race)
Fishing
It is along kilometers of coasts with combinations of the most unbelievable forms, often at the time where there is a battle between the sun and the moon, that the amator or professional fisherman will know a moment of rapture ecstasy of the absolute.
“And it is not far from the rocks which are symbols of eternity, when the seabed seems to sparkle with its inner light, that he will believe to have himself created the slender rainbow wrasse, the vermilion mullet, the sulky-looking "scorpene", the sparkling "marbrée", the "denti" or the redoubtable moray eel but also the "arapède" or the winkle, which are small creatures resembling to baits hung on the rocks, and are the joy of the budding fisherman”.
ScubaDiving
Many passions and vocations were born of a baptism of diving in the Corsican crystalline waters, rich in wrecks, stories and in multicolored fishes. Preferably, the approach of the submarine environment will be done, for the occasional or little
experienced divers, under the watching of professional instructors who moreover will lavish on you teachings which will be initiations into submarine biology, respect for the
Environment, and even onto the photography. Under the surface, among the gorgonias and coral, big groupers, escorted by "corbs", "dentis" or by "sars tambours" await you. You will feel like you are in a three-dimensional movie, while you enjoy a quiet which would be hardly accessible
elsewhere. No need to lure them to meet them. Better than the temple's guardians, they will be really the guides of your most beautiful diving. Leave for a few moments a world that you know only too well, to apprehend an other one that you do not know enough, and which is nevertheless so near, and from where we all are born of.
