Best anchorages and harbours in France

Port Van Gogh

Seine river marina on the left bank at Asnières-sur-Seine, in the inner suburbs of Paris, at PK 34.

Porz ar Birnec

Small anchorage on the Trieux estuary, between Paimpol and Loguivy-de-la-Mer, north Brittany.

• Sheltered SW, W, NW

Porz Kerid

Anchorage in the rade de Brest on the south shore of the Elorn estuary, mixed sand, rock and weed, sheltered from NW to NE.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE

Porzh ar Roc'h Vran

Open anchorage off the Pointe Saint-Mathieu sector in the Iroise sea, west Brittany, sand bottom, sheltered from N through NW.

• Sheltered N, SW, W, NW

Poulennou

Drying cove and small harbour on the north coast of Finistère, commune of Cléder, between Plouescat and Moguériec.

Punta Di U Capicciolu

Anchorage on the east coast of Corsica, at the northern entrance of the Gulf of Sant'Amanza, south of Porto-Vecchio.

• Sheltered NW, W, SW

Quai de halte de Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône

Fluvial quay at the sea end of the Rhône, in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, used as a stopover by yachts transiting between the Mediterranean and the Canal du Rhône à Sète.

Quai de Sainte-Catherine

Small town quay on the Canal de la Marne au Rhin in Nancy, 8 berths alongside the bank.

Quai Libre

Free village quay on the Canal latéral à la Marne at Isse, in the Marne department, Champagne region.

Querqueville

Small port on the west side of the great Cherbourg roadstead, Cotentin peninsula, maximum draught 2 m.

Quilichi

Mooring and service area in the gulf of Porto-Vecchio, on the south-east coast of Corsica.

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

Riberou

River port with 20 berths on the Seudre at Saujon, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, at the head of Seudre navigation.

Rive 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.

Rivière deBélonn

Buoy mooring in the Belon river estuary in southern Finistère, rock and mud bottom.

• Sheltered N, S

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

Roch'Hir

Rock-bottom anchorage off the Trieux estuary in northern Brittany, about 2.4 NM north of Lézardrieux.

• Sheltered W, SW, S, SE

Rocher aux mouettes

Open anchorage off the west coast of the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, sand bottom.

• Sheltered NE, E, SE

Rostiviec

Small drying harbour on the north shore of the Daoulas river, in the Rade de Brest, commune of Loperhet.

Saint Aubin les Elbeuf

River port of 70 berths on the Seine, between Rouen and the Poses lock, in Normandy.

Saint Pabu

Small tidal harbour on the Aber Benoît, north Finistère, Brittany, used mainly as a mooring field on the river.

Saint Vaize

River halt on the Charente, in the commune of Saint-Vaize north of Saintes, in Charente-Maritime.

Saint Victor sur Loire

Lake harbour on the reservoir of the barrage de Grangent, on the upper Loire, in the commune of Saint-Étienne.

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

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

Saint-Jory

Canal des Deux Mers bief near Saint-Jory, north of Toulouse in Occitanie. Mud bottom, anchoring prohibited on this reach.

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.

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.

Saint-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

Sainte 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