Anchorage

Pointe Bacon

Shelter: S, SW, W, NW
Seabed: sand
Anchoring: Allowed

Anchorage off the eastern side of the Cap d'Antibes, near Port Vauban, sand bottom, open to the east.

Guide

Approach and anchoring

Approach from the north along the Cap d'Antibes coast, keeping 200 m off the rocky shore. Holding is good on sand between patches of Posidonia; check the anchor is not set on seagrass, which is protected along the whole Alpes-Maritimes coast. Anchoring may be restricted from 15 April to 15 October under a prefectoral decree. Exposed from NE through E to SE, and it can roll at night even in calm weather, with aircraft on approach to Nice passing low overhead. Shift to Port Vauban at 0.6 nm S in an easterly blow.

Practical

No services at the anchorage. Port Vauban, the largest marina in Europe by capacity, is within tender distance and has water, fuel, sanitaries and visitor berths. Port de la Salis is 1.7 nm S with more limited services.

Ashore

Sentier du littoral around the Cap d'Antibes reached from the Plage de la Garoupe at 1 km S, a signed 4 km coastal path. Phare de la Garoupe and the chapel on the cape's summit at 1,8 km. Old town of Antibes, Picasso Museum in the Château Grimaldi, and Marché Provençal on cours Masséna within 1 km of Port Vauban.