Genevese gulls navigation

Genevese Mouettes navigation is a lake company of navigation of Geneva (Suisse) created on March 1st 1897. Its boats are commonly known under the name of Genevese Mouettes .

It makes following a service connecting the Pastures to the Water-Sharp and created in 1825 by Edward Church, Business man and consul of the the United States in France. For reasons of slowness and noise, the existence of this boat with horse-gear (paddle steamer mû by horses turning on the bridge) is however short.

The operating range of the company is the roads of Geneva where it serves 10 kilometers of line. It sails all the year since the January 12th 2004.

Composition of the fleet

6 boats of 50 places including 2 with electro-solar traction

Lines

M1 : Pasture - Molard (every 10 minutes)
m2: Pasture - Water-Sharp (every 10 minutes)
m3: Pasture - Geneva-Beach (every 25 minutes)
M4: Geneva-beach - Pearl of the Lake (every 25 minutes)

The company is also in load of the tourist lines of which descent of the the Rhone until Verbois.

Financing

Sailing under the banner of the tariff community Unireso since 2001, one can borrow the Gulls with a ticket common to the drunk , trams and regional trains.
They are subsidized by the State of Geneva (1 870.000 frank).

External bonds

Plane of the lines
Characteristic of a Gull
Interview of the assistant editor
Unireso

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