Best anchorages and harbours in France
1982 documented anchorages and harbours in France, ranked by boaters' ratings: shelter, seabed, services, photos and reviews, ready to open in the BoatMap app.
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1111AnchorageFrancePointe de Combrit
3.5Anchorage in the Odet estuary between Sainte-Marine and Bénodet, southern Finistère.
- Sheltered N, NE
- 1112AnchorageFrance
Port Melin
3.5Small anchorage on the north coast of the Île de Groix, east of Port-Tudy, with sand and rock bottom.
- Sheltered SW, S, SE
- 1113AnchorageFrance
Rade de Fornali
3.5Anchorage in the inner roadstead of Saint-Florent, 0.4 NM from the harbour entrance, on the north shore of the gulf under the Tour de Fornali.
- Free
- Sheltered E, SE, S, SW, W
1114AnchorageFranceAnse de Camaret
3.5Anchorage in the bay of Camaret-sur-Mer on the Crozon peninsula, west Finistère, between the Pointe du Toulinguet and the Sillon de Camaret shingle bank.
- Free
- Sheltered E, SE, S, SW, W
- 1115AnchorageFrance
Anse de la Scaletta
3.5Small cove on the east side of the Cap Ferrat peninsula, between Nice and Villefranche-sur-Mer, on the Côte d'Azur.
- Free
- Sheltered NW, W, SW, S, SE
1116AnchorageFranceBaie de Crovani
3.5West-facing bay on the Corsican coast between Galéria and Calvi, backed by a long pebble beach and the Argentella mountains.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, S, SE
- 1117AnchorageFrance
Plage De Fleury
3.5Sand anchorage off the beach of Fleury-d'Aude, at the mouth of the Aude river on the Occitan coast between Narbonne and Béziers.
- Sheltered NW, N, W
1118AnchorageFrancePlage de la Garite
3.5Anchorage on the French south shore of Lake Geneva, east of Nernier village in Haute-Savoie, sand bottom sheltered from S to SE winds.
- Sheltered SW, S, SE
1119AnchorageFrancePorts Darland
3.5Mooring marked as prohibited in the Molène archipelago off western Brittany, inside the Parc naturel marin d'Iroise.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W
- 1120AnchorageMartinique
Anse Turin
3.5Cove north of Le Carbet village, on the Caribbean coast, where Paul Gauguin and Charles Laval stayed in 1887.
- Sheltered NE, E, SE
1121AnchorageFranceCalanque de l'Erevine
3.5Narrow limestone calanque on the Côte Bleue between Niolon and Méjean, west of Marseille, inside the Côte Bleue marine park.
- Sheltered NW, N
1122AnchorageFrancePietracorbara
3.5Anchorage off the long sand beach of Pietracorbara, east coast of Cap Corse.
- Sheltered SW, W, NW
- 1123AnchorageFrance
Port Saint-Julien
3.5Sand bottom anchorage on the east coast of Belle-Île-en-Mer in Brittany, sheltered from W and SW winds.
- Sheltered W, SW
1124AnchorageFranceRaguénez
3.5Anchorage between the Île de Raguénez and the mainland, on the southern coast of Finistère between Concarneau and the Aven estuary.
- Sheltered N, NE, NW
1125AnchorageFranceSagone - West
3.5Anchorage in the Golfe de Sagone on the west coast of Corsica, between Cargèse and Cap Rossu, with sand and rock seabed.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W
1126AnchorageFranceSagone Anchorage
3.5Sand-bottomed roadstead in the Golfe de Sagone on the west coast of Corsica, just south of Port de Sagone.
- Sheltered NW, W, SW
- 1127AnchorageMartinique
Anse Fortune
3.5Small cove on the west coast of Martinique, 0.7 miles north of Grande Anse d'Arlet. Sand and rock, sheltered from east through south-east to south.
- Sheltered E, S, SE
1128AnchorageFranceAnse Dite Port Mirabelle
3.5Anchorage on the lac de Madine, a 1100-hectare reservoir in the Meuse, Grand Est region, used for inland sailing.
- Sheltered E, SW, S, SE
- 1129AnchorageSt. Barthélemy
Île Chevreau
3.5Day anchorage by Île Chevreau, an islet off the north-west coast of Saint-Barthélemy, 0.9 NM north-east of Anse du Colombier.
- Sheltered NE, E
- 1130AnchorageFrance
Île de Farina
3.5Sand-bottom anchorage off the Îles Cerbicale, 3 NM east of the Gulf of Porto-Vecchio in southern Corsica.
- Sheltered N, SE, S, W, NW
- 1131AnchorageFrance
La chaussée
3.5Anchorage in the Somme estuary, Hauts-de-France, over weed bottom.
- Free
- Sheltered NW, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 1132AnchorageFrance
Pointe d'Acula
3.5Rocky anchorage off the western coast of Corsica, between Tizzano and the Gulf of Valinco.
- Sheltered N, NE, E
- 1133AnchorageFrance
Porz Coz
3.5Mud-bottomed anchorage on the north shore of the Rade de Brest, opposite the Île Ronde, in Finistère.
- Sheltered NW, W, SW
- 1134AnchorageFrance
Trégarvan
3.5River anchorage on the Aulne estuary off the village of Trégarvan, in the Finistère, Brittany.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 1135AnchorageMartinique
Vatable
3.5Anchorage off Vatable in the bay of Les Trois-Îlets, south side of the Baie de Fort-de-France. Sand and mud, sheltered from east through south to west, open to the north.
- Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE
- 1136AnchorageFrance
Anse de Cornaud
3.5Sand and rock anchorage on the south-east coast of Belle-Île-en-Mer, in Brittany.
- Sheltered N, NE, E
1137AnchorageFranceBaie de Cayola
3.5Rocky bay on the Vendée coast between Les Sables-d'Olonne and Port-Bourgenay, 1.9 nm NW of Port-Bourgenay.
- Sheltered N, NE, E
1138AnchorageFranceBeauduc
3.5Open anchorage off the Beauduc beach on the south shore of the Camargue, in the Rhône delta.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, S, SE
1139AnchorageFranceCalanque du Cap Nègre
3.5Regulated buoy field of around 40 to 70 moorings in the calanque below Cap Nègre, on the coast of Le Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer between Le Lavandou and Cavalaire, where anchoring is restricted once the buoys are laid.
- Free
- Sheltered N, NE, E
1140AnchorageFrancePointe des Salis
3.5Rocky anchorage off the northwest tip of the Giens peninsula in the Var, between Hyères and the Presqu'île de Giens.
- Sheltered N, NE