Lorient : Profile

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Customs
Tel:+33 (0)2.97.01.36.00

Port Authority
Tel:+33 (0)2.97.24.01.43

Docking

This foremost centre of yachting in France can be entered in all weathers and at all stes of the tide. Its entrance is sheltered from the atlantic swell by the off lying island of Ile de Groix.

Once past the forts guarding the entrance, the estuary opens out and there are several bays, inlets and marinas. There is the large Kernevel marina, the small quiet marina of Port-Louis, another small marina, Sainte Catherine at Locmiquelic. Further up the river is Pen-Mane marina and opposite this is the entrance to the Avant Port and the city basin, where there are good, sheltered pontoons just inside, to port. This is a good berth, being close to the city, but still being pleasently open.

Beyond the entrance to the Avant Port, is the main marina at Quai de Rohan. A good sheltered spot, if rather hot in summer.

There is a good anchorage, at neaps, ESE of the breakwater at Locmalo. Another, more open anchorage, is on the west side of the entrance, off Larmor. The Anse de Goerem provides a good anchorage in easterlies.

Kernevel Marina
Villa Margaret, Lamour Plage, Kernevel
Tel:+33 (0)297 65 48 25, Fax::+33 (0)2 97 33 63 56, VHF Channel 09
port-kernevel@sellor.com
60 visitors’ slips. All facilities, including chandlery and repairs.

Lorient Marina
Quai de Rohan, Centre Ville, 56100 Lorient
Tel:+33 (0)297 21 10 14, Fax:+33 (0)2 97 21 10 15, VHF Channel 09
50 visitors'berths. Water,electricity, toilets and showers.

Port-Louis Marina
Quai de la Pointe, Port-Louis
Tel:+33 (0)297 82 59 55, VHF Channel 09

Sainte Catherine Marina
Quai Rallier du Baty, Locmiquelic
Tel:+33 (0)297 33 59 51, Fax:+33 (0)2.97.33.89.25, VHF Channel 09
lomiquelic@sagemor.fr

Villa Margaret
56 260 Larmor Plages
Tel:+33 (0)2 97 65 48 25, Fax:+33 (0)2 97 33 63 56

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