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Guérande peninsula: Piriac, Le Croisic and La Baule

Between the Vilaine and the Loire, La Turballe can be entered at any state of tide, Pornichet too except for deep keels at low water springs, and Piriac as soon as its gate opens, at 2.2 m of tide. Le Croisic is reached through the Grand Traict channel, where the stream exceeds 5 knots at springs, and Le Pouliguen up a tidal creek usable from half tide. Off Piriac, Île Dumet is protected by decree: from 1 March to 31 July, no boats and no anchoring within 200 m of its foreshore. La Baule bay, open to the south, is the place to sit out a northerly.

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AnchorageFrance
Merquel
2.5
Small buoy field off the Pointe de Merquel at Mesquer, Loire-Atlantique, north of the Traict de Mesquer salt marshes.
- Buoys
- Up to 32 ft
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AnchorageFrance
Anse de Port-Mânes
4.9
Anchorage on Île Dumet off Piriac-sur-Mer, sand and weed bottom, sheltered from E, S and SE winds.
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AnchorageFrance
Anse du Grand Port
4.5
Anchorage on Île Dumet off Piriac-sur-Mer in Loire-Atlantique, sand bottom, sheltered from W, SW and S winds.
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AnchorageFrance
Île Dumet
4.6
Anchorage off Ile Dumet, a 7-hectare island 3 NM off the Mesquer coast in southern Brittany.
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HarbourPiriac sur mer, France
Piriac-sur-Mer
4.3
Marina on the presqu'île guérandaise north of La Turballe, 830 berths behind a breakwater, in a village labelled Petite Cité de Caractère.
- Up to 49 ft
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AnchorageFrance
Anse de Lérat
2.6
Buoy mooring on the Guérande peninsula north of Piriac-sur-Mer, Loire-Atlantique, on sand and rock, sheltered from NW through E.
- Buoys
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HarbourLa Turballe, France
La Turballe
3.8
Fishing and leisure harbour of 329 berths on the Guérande peninsula, between Le Croisic and Piriac-sur-Mer, first sardine port of France.
- Up to 59 ft
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AnchorageFrance
Rade du Croisic
3.9
Outer roadstead east of the Le Croisic peninsula in Loire-Atlantique, used as a waiting anchorage off the entrance to the Traict.
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HarbourLe Croisic, France
Le Croisic
3.7
Drying town harbour of 500 berths at the end of a narrow tidal ria on the Guérande peninsula, where visitors take the ground on soft mud or lie on buoys in the pool, with an active fishing fleet and a bottlenose dolphin research station on the quay.
- Up to 65 ft
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AnchorageFrance
Baie de La Barrière
3.5
Open anchorage off the Croisic peninsula in Loire-Atlantique, sand bottom, about 1 NM SE of Le Croisic harbour.
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HarbourLe Pouligen, France
La Baule - Le Pouliguen
3.8
Tidal harbour at the mouth of the étier du Pouliguen between La Baule and Le Pouliguen in southern Brittany, 820 berths.
- Up to 42 ft
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AnchorageFrance
Baie du Pouliguen
2.9
Sand anchorage in the bay of La Baule, between Le Pouliguen to the W and Pornichet to the SE, on the Guerande peninsula.
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AnchorageFrance
Les Evens
4.0
Open anchorage on sand off the Côte d'Amour between Pornichet and La Baule, Loire-Atlantique.
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HarbourPornichet, France
Pornichet
3.0
Marina of 1150 berths on the Baie de La Baule south of the Loire estuary, one of the largest marinas on the French Atlantic coast.
- Up to 82 ft