Sailing Holidays: Sailing Solent to Bordeaux

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Sailing Solent to Bordeaux

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Topic: Sailing Solent to Bordeaux

Posted By: robert e
Subject: Sailing Solent to Bordeaux
Date Posted: 26 Apr 07 at 9:23pm

Can anyone refer me to useful information about sailing the coast of France to Bordeaux, safe ports/anchorages, interesting ports/anchorages etc ? Apart from the normal charts of course, any best pilots ?

Thanks, Robert

Replies:

Posted By: Stefan Lloyd
Date Posted: 27 Apr 07 at 6:28am

You'd probably do better asking on a more cruising-orientated forum.

Posted By: redback
Date Posted: 28 Apr 07 at 10:37pm

The Raz is fun - as long as nothing goes wrong! Cameret is a good place to hold out if the weather is too bad for the Raz. Once around the corner and into the Bay of Biscay the weather always seems warmer. I thought Benodet and Concarneau were great places to stop off en route.

Make sure you've looked at the Raz using Google Earth with Geographic Web turned on and then have a look at some of the photos - its an impressive place!

Posted By: robert e
Date Posted: 29 Apr 07 at 10:45am

Thanks to Stephan and Redback for their replies, our plan is taking shape,

Robert