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Opal Coast and Bay of Somme: Dunkirk to Saint-Valery
14 places · Opal Coast and Bay of Somme
Between Dunkirk and the Bay of Somme the coast has no sheltered anchorage: you hop from harbour to harbour with the tide. Dunkirk and Boulogne are open at any hour. At Calais a call on VHF 17 is compulsory before entering, and the west basin lock works from 2 hours before to 3 hours after high water. Gravelines dries and is entered around high water, within an hour either side for drafts over 1.5 m. Étaples, Le Crotoy and Saint-Valery sit at the end of channels that keep moving, and Picardie Nature asks boats to stay 300 m from seals hauled out on the banks.
1HarbourDunkerque, FranceDunkerque Marina
4.4Marina of 250 berths on the eastern side of the port of Dunkerque, in the Hauts-de-France region of the Strait of Dover.
- Up to 49 ft
2HarbourFranceYacht Club De La Mer Du Nord
4.1Dunkirk marina with 250 berths, up to 5 m draught, adjacent to the commercial harbour. VHF 9.
- Up to 65 ft
3HarbourDunkirk, FranceDunkerque Bassin de la Marine
3.1Inner basin of the port of Dunkerque in Hauts-de-France, located in the heart of the city alongside the Yacht Club de la Mer du Nord.
4HarbourGravelines, FranceGravelines
4.6Lock-gated marina of 430 berths at the mouth of the river Aa, on the Opal Coast between Dunkerque and Calais.
- Up to 49 ft
5HarbourCalais, FranceCalais
4.0Marina of 418 berths inside the commercial port of Calais, on the Strait of Dover, the closest French harbour to England.
- Up to 65 ft
6AnchorageFranceArrière-port calais
3.1Buoy mooring field of 17 berths inside the old inner harbour of Calais, mud bottom, set between the ferry terminal and the Bassin Ouest.
- Water
- Electricity
- Buoys
7AnchorageFranceWissant
4.3Open sandy bay on the Opal Coast between Cap Gris-Nez and Cap Blanc-Nez, Hauts-de-France. Sand bottom, protected from E and SE, fully exposed from W through NW.
8AnchorageFranceFort d'ambleteuse
1.6Open roadstead on the Opal Coast in Hauts-de-France, off the village of Ambleteuse at the mouth of the river Slack, 5 nm N of Boulogne-sur-Mer.
9HarbourBoulogne-Sur-Mer, FranceBoulogne-Sur-Mer
3.6Marina of 510 berths inside the largest fishing harbour of France, on the Opal Coast of the Pas-de-Calais.
- Up to 82 ft
- 10AnchorageFrance
Canche
4.1Tidal anchorage in the Canche estuary between Le Touquet and Étaples, on the Côte d'Opale.
- Water
- 11HarbourEtaples, France
Etaples
3.7Tidal marina of 240 berths on the Canche estuary, opposite Le Touquet, in the Pas-de-Calais.
- Up to 45 ft
12HarbourLe Crotoy, FranceLe Crotoy
4.4Drying harbour on the north shore of the Somme estuary in Hauts-de-France, 110 berths, only 0.8 m of water available on average.
- Up to 39 ft
13HarbourFranceLe Hourdel
Small drying harbour at the tip of the Pointe du Hourdel, on the south shore of the Somme estuary in Hauts-de-France. About 75 berths.
- Up to 29 ft
14HarbourSaint Valery sur Somme, FranceSaint Valery sur Somme
4.4Tidal marina of 250 berths in the Somme estuary, Hauts-de-France, on the south bank of the baie de Somme.
- Up to 65 ft
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