Cruising guides - France - Atlantic coast: navigation and marinas

Cruising West France

West France is, in the author's words, a glorious coastline of timeless cruising pleasures.
This sailing companion will take you along its rocky coastlines and golden beaches and up its many estuaries and rivers, enriching your journey from port to port with the history, sights and gastronomic delights of the region.
Numerous photographs illustrate the places described and emphasise the picturesque nature of this most popular cruising ground.

Product details

Secret Anchorages of Brittany

Secret Anchorages of Brittany provides concise pilotage directions for practically all the natural anchorages along the Brittany coast, from the Bay of Mont St Michel round to the great estuary of the Loire.
As with the first edition, the anchorages start near Cap de la Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula and include Iles Chausey. The book enters Brittany waters near Cancale and follows the whole 300-mile coastline, with its rivers, estuaries and offshore islands, looking into every nook and cranny on the way.

This stylish second edition includes many new anchorages and is lavishly illustrated in colour, while the anchorage charts have been redrawn and verified against the Admiralty or French SHOM charts.
The pilotage sections are peppered with short features on the maritime traditions, life and history of this inimitable coast. Peter Cumberlidge is a well known writer and photographer who cruises widely under sail and power. He always returns to Brittany with affection and the new Secret Anchorages reflects his sympathy for this fabulous cruising area, the people who live here and the superlative seafood for which the coast is justly renowned.

Product details

South Biscay - La Gironde to La Coruna (7th edition)

This seventh edition of the RCC's South Biscay pilot covers the coasts of France and Spain from the Gironde to La Coruna in Galicia.
This edition has been completely revised and updated. In line with other recent RCC editions, waypoints have been introduced to assist navigation.

With new photographs by the author and up-to-date aerials by Patrick Roach, South Biscay is the complete reference for yachts visiting the flay sandy coasts of southwest France and the long Biscay coast of Spain.

Product details

Côte Atlantique - De Brest à Hendaye (Guide Imray Vagnon)

For each port, island or bay, the reader will find a complete and detailed description, cartography, day and night approaches, moorings and anchorages, equipment and services, or even visits to be made on land.

This guide covers Finistère, the Bay of Bénodet, Groix and the Rias, the Bay of Quiberon, the Vilaine and the Loire, the Vendée, the Charente, and the entire area from the Gironde to Hendaye, with the Landes coast, the Arcachon basin and the ports of the Basque country.

The Vagnon guides are the French adaptation of the works of the prestigious English publishing house Imray, a world reference in the field of marine cartography. They describe with unequalled precision the ports, marinas, anchorages...
Their clear presentation, with many photos complementing numerous maps and detailed plans make them essential works for successful cruises.

Product details

Côte Cantabrique - De la Gironde à la Corogne (Guide Imray Vagnon)

For each port, island or bay, the reader will find a complete and detailed description, cartography, day and night approaches, moorings and anchorages, equipment and services, or even visits to be made on land.
This guide covers the French Atlantic coast from Gironde to Hendaye, the Spanish Basque Country, Cantabria, Asturias and Galicia as far as La Coruña.

The Vagnon guides are the French adaptation of the works of the prestigious English publishing house Imray, a world reference in the field of marine cartography. They describe with unequalled precision the ports, marinas, anchorages...
Their clear presentation, with many photos complementing numerous maps and detailed plans make them essential works for successful cruises.

Product details

Les plus beaux ports de Bretagne - De Cancale à Pornic

With around 250 ports between Cancale and Le Croisic, Brittany can boast of having more than half of France's ports on more than 3 000 kilometres of coastline. You can be enchanted by the multiple ports of Saint-Malo as well as the small shellfish fishing port of Moguériec, the gigantic floating docks of La Trinité-sur-Mer as well as the astonishing mooring on piles of Gwin-Zegal, ports that invite themselves into the centre of towns and those that open onto the open sea.
Behind each port, there is a story, a heritage that is invented, men who work and others who dream, there are a thousand emotions to share.

This French book attempts to paint a portrait of the most endearing of them, taking into account the essential stopovers and the deliberate subjectivity without which no discovery is possible.

Product details