Best anchorages and harbours in Loire-Atlantique
25 documented anchorages and harbours in Loire-Atlantique, ranked by boaters' ratings: shelter, seabed, services, photos and reviews, ready to open in the BoatMap app.
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- 1HarbourPénestin, France
Port Vilaine Maritime
5.0Marina of 130 berths on the lower Vilaine, at Pénestin in Morbihan, Brittany.
2HarbourPiriac sur mer, FrancePiriac-sur-Mer
4.3Marina on the presqu'île guérandaise north of La Turballe, 830 berths behind a breakwater, in a village labelled Petite Cité de Caractère.
3HarbourLa Roche-Bernard, FrancePort de la Roche Bernard
4.0River port of 563 berths on the Vilaine, 8 nautical miles upstream from the Arzal dam, in Morbihan, Brittany.
4HarbourLa Turballe, FranceLa Turballe
3.8Fishing and leisure harbour of 329 berths on the Guérande peninsula, between Le Croisic and Piriac-sur-Mer, first sardine port of France.
5HarbourPornic, FrancePornic
3.8Marina of 914 berths at Pornic in southern Loire-Atlantique, split between the Vieux Port under the castle and the Noëveillard basin on the Côte de Jade.
6HarbourLe Pouligen, FranceLa Baule - Le Pouliguen
3.8Tidal harbour at the mouth of the étier du Pouliguen between La Baule and Le Pouliguen in southern Brittany, 820 berths.
7HarbourLe Croisic, FranceLe Croisic
3.7Drying 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.
- 8HarbourL'Herbaudière, France
L'Herbaudière
3.6Fishing and yachting harbour of 600 berths on the north-western tip of Noirmoutier, first deepwater shelter south of the Loire estuary.
9Harbourarzal, FrancePort d'Arzal-Camoël
3.5Marina of 1250 berths on the Vilaine, immediately upstream of the Arzal dam, between the Morbihan communes of Arzal and Camoël.
10HarbourArzal, FrancePonton Aval - Port d'Arzal-Camoël
3.5Downstream visitor pontoon at the Arzal-Camoel marina, just below the Arzal dam on the Vilaine estuary in southern Brittany.
11HarbourFrancePort du Collet
3.4Tidal harbour at the northern edge of Baie de Bourgneuf, on the Loire-Atlantique coast facing Noirmoutier.
- 12HarbourFrossay, France
Les Portes de l'Atlantique - Port à Sec
3.3Dry-stack marina on the south bank of the Loire estuary at Le Migron, commune of Frossay, between Paimbœuf and Nantes.
13HarbourLa Plaine-sur-Mer, FranceLa Gravette
3.3Drying tidal harbour on the Jade coast at La Plaine-sur-Mer, at the northern entrance to the Bay of Bourgneuf.
14HarbourPaimbœuf, FrancePaimboeuf
3.0River port on the left bank of the Loire estuary, about 15 nautical miles downstream of Nantes and 10 miles upstream of Saint-Nazaire.
15HarbourPornichet, FrancePornichet
3.0Marina of 1150 berths on the Baie de La Baule south of the Loire estuary, one of the largest marinas on the French Atlantic coast.
16HarbourPornic, FrancePort de Gourmalon
2.9Marina of 350 berths in Pornic on the south Brittany coast of Loire-Atlantique, on the north shore of the Baie de Bourgneuf.
17HarbourDamgan, FrancePort de Penerf
2.9Tidal harbour of 110 berths on the Penerf river estuary in southern Morbihan, Brittany, serving the village of Damgan.
18HarbourMesquer, FranceKercabellec
2.7Drying harbour on the Mesquer estuary, in the salt-marsh hinterland of Mesquer, Loire-Atlantique.
19HarbourComberge, FranceComberge
2.6Small drying harbour on the south coast of the Pays de la Loire, between Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef and Pornic, a short hop from the Île du Pilier anchorages.
20HarbourSaint-Nazaire, FranceBassin de St Nazaire
1.2Locked commercial basin at the mouth of the Loire in Saint-Nazaire, no longer open to pleasure craft and now reserved for commercial shipping.
21HarbourLe Croisic, FranceCriée du Croisic
Working fish auction quay on the north side of the Le Croisic harbour channel, in southern Brittany.
- 22HarbourLavau-sur-Loire, France
Lavau-sur-Loire
Small tidal harbour on the north bank of the Loire estuary between Nantes and Saint-Nazaire, in the Brière regional park.
23HarbourPiriac-sur-Mer, FrancePort de Lérat
Small drying harbour on the rocky coast north of Piriac-sur-Mer, on the Guérande peninsula in Pays de la Loire.
24HarbourPréfailles, FrancePort st gildas
Marina of 288 berths at Préfailles, on the south side of the Pointe Saint-Gildas at the entrance of the Loire estuary.
25HarbourPornic, FranceVieux port
Old drying harbour at the head of the Anse de Pornic in Loire-Atlantique, overlooked by the 13th-century château de Gilles de Rais.