Best anchorages and harbours in France
3174 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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3121HarbourFranceQuerqueville
Small port on the west side of the great Cherbourg roadstead, Cotentin peninsula, maximum draught 2 m.
3122HarbourPorto-Vecchio, FranceQuilichi
Mooring and service area in the gulf of Porto-Vecchio, on the south-east coast of Corsica.
- 3123AnchorageFrance
Rampe Les Canalous
Mud-bottom river halt on the Saône at Pontailler-sur-Saône, Côte-d'Or, at the confluence with the Vingeanne.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 3124AnchorageMartinique
Récif de la pointe Vauclin
Anchorage behind a reef north of Le Vauclin village, on the Atlantic coast.
- Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE
3125HarbourFranceRiberou
River port with 20 berths on the Seudre at Saujon, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, at the head of Seudre navigation.
3126HarbourCaen, FranceRive De Lorne
Mooring along the Quai Amiral Hamelin in Caen, Normandy, next to the Rives de l'Orne urban development and the city's leisure basin.
- 3127AnchorageFrance
Rivière deBélonn
Buoy mooring in the Belon river estuary in southern Finistère, rock and mud bottom.
- Sheltered N, S
- 3128AnchorageFrance
Roc'h Ribin
Rocky shoal off the Côte de Granit Rose in north Brittany, marked as a prohibited mooring zone. Port-Blanc lies 0.9 nm south.
- Sheltered S, SE
3129AnchorageFranceRoch'Hir
Rock-bottom anchorage off the Trieux estuary in northern Brittany, about 2.4 NM north of Lézardrieux.
- Sheltered W, SW, S, SE
- 3130AnchorageFrance
Rocher aux mouettes
Open anchorage off the west coast of the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, sand bottom.
- Sheltered NE, E, SE
3131HarbourLoperhet, FranceRostiviec
Small drying harbour on the north shore of the Daoulas river, in the Rade de Brest, commune of Loperhet.
- 3132HarbourFrance
Saint Aubin les Elbeuf
River port of 70 berths on the Seine, between Rouen and the Poses lock, in Normandy.
- 3133HarbourLe Gosier, Guadeloupe
Port de Saint-Félix
Small harbour at Saint-Félix, on the south coast of Grande-Terre in the commune of Le Gosier, 4.4 miles east of Marina Bas-du-Fort.
3134HarbourSaint-Pabu, FranceSaint Pabu
Small tidal harbour on the Aber Benoît, north Finistère, Brittany, used mainly as a mooring field on the river.
3135HarbourSaintes, FranceSaint Vaize
River halt on the Charente, in the commune of Saint-Vaize north of Saintes, in Charente-Maritime.
3136HarbourSaint-Étienne, FranceSaint Victor sur Loire
Lake harbour on the reservoir of the barrage de Grangent, on the upper Loire, in the commune of Saint-Étienne.
- 3137AnchorageFrance
Saint-jaguel
Mud-bottom anchorage in the ria of the Arguenon, north coast of Brittany, near Saint-Cast and Le Guildo.
- Sheltered NW, W, SW
- 3138AnchorageFrance
Saint-Jean-de-la-Rivière
Rock-bottom anchorage on the west coast of the Cotentin peninsula, Manche, Normandy, between Barneville-Carteret and Portbail.
- Sheltered NE, E, SE
- 3139AnchorageFrance
Saint-Jory
Canal des Deux Mers bief near Saint-Jory, north of Toulouse in Occitanie. Mud bottom, anchoring prohibited on this reach.
- 3140HarbourNort-sur-Erdre, France
Saint-Martin de Nort-sur-erdre
River harbour on the Erdre at Nort-sur-Erdre, 30 km north of Nantes, on the Canal de Nantes à Brest.
- 3141HarbourFrance
Saint-Martin-sur-Oust
Small river halt on the canalised Oust, part of the Nantes to Brest canal system, in the Morbihan department of inland Brittany.
3142AnchorageFranceSaint-Victor-sur-Loire
Anchorage on the Grangent reservoir on the upper Loire, near the village of Saint-Victor-sur-Loire south-west of Saint-Étienne in the Loire gorges.
- Sheltered N
3143AnchorageFranceSainte Catherine - Nord
Anchorage of 27 moorings on sand off Locmiquélic, east bank of the Lorient roadstead, immediately north of the Sainte-Catherine marina.
- Paid
- Sheltered NE, E, SE, SW
- 3144AnchorageFrance
Salles Curan
Mooring on the lac de Pareloup at Salles-Curan, in the Aveyron on the Lévézou plateau, the second-largest artificial lake in France with a surface of 1 260 hectares.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, S, SE
3145HarbourSéné, FranceSene badel
Drying harbour on the commune of Séné, on the southern shore of the Golfe du Morbihan opposite Vannes, used mostly by local boats.
- 3146HarbourFrance
Société Nautique de Port-de-Bouc
Yacht club basin on the north shore of the Golfe de Fos, at the southern entrance of the Canal de Caronte linking the sea to the Étang de Berre.
3147HarbourFranceSociété Nautique les Figuières
Small club harbour of 50 berths on the Côte Bleue between Marseille and Martigues, tucked into a narrow inlet west of Ensuès-la-Redonne.
- 3148AnchorageFrance
Sous la Tour
Anchorage at the entrance of the Légué estuary near Saint-Brieuc in Brittany, mud bottom, sheltered from NW through N and NE and from W.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W
- 3149AnchorageMartinique
Spoutourne
Spoutourne anchorage, on the Tartane side of the north shore of Baie du Galion, at the root of the Caravelle peninsula on the Atlantic coast.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E
3150AnchorageFranceSt Barthélémy EST
Anchorage on the east side of the Saint-Barthélemy reef in the rade d'Agay, Estérel massif, Var coast, on sand and weed.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, E
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Opal Coast and Bay of Somme: Dunkirk to Saint-Valery, Stopover harbours of North Brittany, Saint-Malo to Brest, Emerald Coast anchorages, Saint-Malo to Cancale, Jersey, Guernsey and Sark from Saint-Malo, Pink granite coast and Bréhat: the anchorages, Saint-Brieuc bay: Saint-Quay to Paimpol, Brest roadstead and the Crozon peninsula: the anchorages, Ushant, Molène and Sein: the Iroise anchorages, The Abers: Aber-Wrac'h to Roscoff, Stopover harbours of South Brittany, Brest to the Vilaine, The Glénan: anchorages of the archipelago, The Odet to Concarneau: stopovers and anchorages, Douarnenez bay, Cap Sizun and Audierne, Belle-Île, Houat and Hoëdic: the best anchorages, Gulf of Morbihan: anchorages and stopovers, Quiberon bay and La Trinité: sheltered anchorages, Groix, Lorient and the rias: a weekend from Lorient, The D-Day beaches by sea, East Cotentin: Cherbourg, Barfleur and Saint-Vaast, Granville, Chausey and the west coast of the Cotentin, Alderney and Guernsey from Cherbourg, Côte Fleurie and Alabaster Coast: the stopovers, The tidal Seine, from Le Havre and Honfleur to Rouen, Atlantic stopover harbours, the Loire to the Gironde, Guérande peninsula: Piriac, Le Croisic and La Baule, Côte de Jade: Saint-Brevin to Pornic, Vendée: Pornic, Noirmoutier, Yeu and Les Sables, Île d'Yeu and Noirmoutier: the anchorages, Ré, Aix and Oléron: the Pertuis from La Rochelle, Île de Ré and the Pertuis Breton: tidal harbours and anchorages, Oléron, Marennes and the Seudre: oyster channels and gated basins, Gironde estuary: Royan to Pauillac, Garonne and Dordogne: Pauillac to Bordeaux and Libourne, Arcachon basin: the anchorages, Basque coast: Capbreton, Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Hendaye, Côte Vermeille: Collioure, Port-Vendres and Banyuls, Sète, the Thau lagoon and the Camargue, Cap d'Agde to Port-Barcarès: lagoon harbours and fair-weather anchorages, Stopover harbours of the Gulf of Lion, Port-Vendres to Port-Camargue, Camargue, Gulf of Fos and the Étang de Berre: harbours and anchorages, Calanques, Marseille to Cassis: where you can still anchor, Frioul and Riou: the islands of Marseille, Côte Bleue: Carry, Sausset and Niolon, Cassis to Bandol via Île Verte, Îles d'Hyères: Porquerolles, Port-Cros and Levant, Gulf of Saint-Tropez, Pampelonne and the capes, Where to shelter from the mistral in the Var, Bandol to Giens: Sanary, Les Embiez and the Toulon roadstead, Corniche des Maures: Léoube to Cavalaire, beaches and anchorages, Stopover harbours of the Var, Bandol to Saint-Raphaël, Lérins islands and Cap d'Antibes: the anchorages, Villefranche to Menton: Cap Ferrat, Monaco and Menton, The Estérel: Théoule to Agay, anchorages of the red rocks, Stopover harbours of the Riviera, Saint-Raphaël to Menton, The most beautiful anchorages in Corsica, Bonifacio, Lavezzi and the far south, Agriates and Cap Corse: Saint-Florent to Macinaggio, West coast: Calvi, Scandola, Girolata and Ajaccio, Porto-Vecchio, Pinarello and the east coast, Gulf of Ajaccio: Sanguinaires islands to Capo di Muro, Gulf of Valinco: Propriano, Campomoro and the coast to Roccapina, Balagne: L'Île-Rousse to Calvi and Galéria, Round Corsica in twelve harbours, South Martinique: Le Marin, Sainte-Anne and Les Salines, Fort-de-France bay, Trois-Îlets and the Anses d'Arlet, Saint-Pierre and Martinique's north Caribbean coast, Martinique's Atlantic coast: islets and white sand shallows, Guadeloupe's leeward coast: Deshaies, Pigeon and Bouillante, Les Saintes and Marie-Galante anchorages, Grande-Terre, Petite-Terre and La Désirade: Pointe-à-Pitre to Saint-François, Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin: the lagoon islets, Saint-Martin and St. Barts: anchorages and marine reserves, The Seine from Paris to Rouen: halts and locks, Upper Seine and the Loing: Paris to Moret-sur-Loing, The Saône and the Seille, Saint-Jean-de-Losne to Mâcon, Canal du Midi stops, Toulouse to Béziers, Marne-Rhine canal: across the Vosges to Strasbourg, Lake Geneva, French shore: Yvoire to Meillerie, Lakes Annecy and Bourget: the harbours.