Port

Cordemais

Name: Cordemais
Address: Cordemais, FR
Telephone: +33 2 40 57 89 28

4.6Cordemais, FranceVendée

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Maximum draught: 6 ft

River port of around 60 berths on the north bank of the Loire estuary, 20 km upstream of Saint-Nazaire.

Guide

Approach and anchoring

Access from the buoyed estuary channel, bearing north at the Cordemais power station stacks which serve as a daytime landmark. Depth in the pool is kept dredged for barges, with a soft silt floor on which a boat may sit gently at low water. Watch the Loire current, up to 3 knots on the ebb at springs, and the cooling-water discharge from the power station arm, which keeps running out even at high water and can catch a boat out during the berthing manoeuvre. Maximum draught in the basin 2 metres.

Practical

About 60 berths managed by the commune with water and electricity on the pontoons. Bakery and small grocery in the village centre at 600 metres. Loire Nautic Services yard at 0.3 NM east handles lift-out and wintering.

Ashore

A restaurant and a museum on the Loire estuary stand right by the harbour. Village square and Saint-Ouen church at 600 metres from the pontoons. Loire estuary towpath walk towards Lavau-sur-Loire at 3.5 NM NW, passing through the Natura 2000 wet meadows. Estuaire art trail installations visible from the riverbank between Cordemais and Le Pellerin.