Harbour

Port Adhoc

Name: Port Adhoc
Address: Paimpol, FR
Telephone: +33699986363

Paimpol, FranceCôtes-d'Armor

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Type: Harbour

Marina of 240 berths in the outer basin of Paimpol harbour, on the Côtes-d'Armor coast of Brittany.

Guide

Approach and anchoring

Approach through the Chenal de la Jeune Garde, buoyed and lit, between the Pointe de Guilben and the Roche Saint-Yves cardinal. The outer basin is wet and accessible at all tides. The inner basin lies behind a lock that opens at HW plus or minus 1h30. VHF 9 for the capitainerie. Beware of the drying rocks of the Paimpol estuary at low water.

Practical

240 berths with water and electricity, max length 15 metres. Diesel at the fuel pontoon. Showers, laundry and waste pump-out. Capitainerie and chandlery on the quay. Supermarket at 600 metres, bakeries and restaurants along quai Loti.

Ashore

Abbaye de Beauport, a ruined 13th century Premonstratensian abbey on the coast at 3 km south of the port, open to visitors. Sentier des douaniers GR 34 passes through Paimpol and leads to the Pointe de l'Arcouest, embarkation point for Île de Bréhat, at 6 km. Tuesday morning market on place du Martray at 500 metres.

History

Paimpol was the main French port for the Iceland cod schooner fleet from the 1850s to the First World War. Up to 80 Islandais schooners sailed from here each February and returned in August or September, a campaign described by Pierre Loti in Pêcheur d'Islande, published in 1886.

Story

The Chant des Marins festival, held in Paimpol every two years since 1989, gathers around 150 sea shanty groups from more than 30 countries and draws over 100 000 visitors over a weekend in August.