Best anchorages and harbours in Basque coast

Baie de Loia

Anchorage in the Bay of Txingudi on the Franco-Spanish border, opposite Hendaye, with a mixed rock and sand bottom.

• Sheltered SE, S, SW

Baie De Saint Jean De Luz

Anchorage of around 15 berths on sand inside the Baie de Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, protected by three seawalls built between 1864 and 1895.

• Paid
• Sheltered NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Mouillage de l'Untxin

Anchorage in the Bay of Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Ciboure, off the mouth of the Untxin river, sheltered by the Artha, Sainte-Barbe and Socoa breakwaters.

• Paid
• Sheltered NW, W, SW, S

Plage Sud

Open roadstead off Mimizan-Plage on the Landes coast, south of the Arcachon basin, sand bottom.

Boucau near Bayonne

Estuary area at the mouth of the Adour between Boucau and Anglet, near Bayonne. Anchoring is prohibited in the navigable channel used by commercial traffic.

• Sheltered NE, W, E, SE

Sauvage

Lake anchorage on the Étang de Biscarrosse et de Parentis, in the Landes forest, New Aquitaine.

• Sheltered N, SW, W, NW

Côte des Basques

Open anchorage off the Côte des Basques beach in Biarritz, Basque coast.

• Sheltered NE, E, SE

Craste De liboy

Anchorage on the Étang de Cazaux et de Sanguinet, on the west shore near Navarrosse, Landes.

• Sheltered E, S, SE

La Gourgue

Lake anchorage on the Cazaux-Sanguinet lake in the Landes de Gascogne, weed bottom.

• Sheltered SW

La plage des Aigrettes

Sand anchorage on the north shore of the Étang de Cazaux-Sanguinet in the Landes, one of the largest freshwater lakes in France.

• Sheltered N, NE

Mouillage de Gauseirans

Open roadstead off the beaches of Anglet on the Basque coast, sand bottom, exposed to the Atlantic swell.

• Sheltered E

Mouillage de Larrigade

Sand-bottom anchorage on the Landes coast in New Aquitaine, sheltered from S, SW, W and NW.

• Sheltered S, SW, W, NW

Plage Américaine

Sand anchorage on the west shore of Lac de Cazaux et de Sanguinet, the second largest natural lake in mainland France, in the Landes de Gascogne.

• Sheltered W, SW