Last Updated on September 3, 2025 by Colin Le Conte
Latest information by John Strudwick – August 2025
Much extended marina now with space for large boats in the outer marina
The inner marina is quite old, electric is push button that only lasts 10 hours ! and hose is English style.
Access at all states of tide – have to call up on VHF to get a berth
The showers are a bit old but OK.
Laundry is a commercial one in town – about 5 minutes walk.
It does have fuel but quite hard to get onto that berth
There is a small Carrefour, 7 minutes walk from the marina
Plenty of restaurants along the front and the second street back.
Report by Gavin May July 2024
We didn’t actually manage to visit as the place was closed to visitors for some mega race competition- so it would be well to check.
However, it is also the base port for the Croisic windfarm construction, so I understand that there has been some investment since my last visit. Newer Visiteur pontoon and Facilities, and ability to take larger sized vessels.
Whilst we have been there by boat some years ago – and walked there many times from Piriac – this is predominantly a commercial fishing port lined along the waterfront with eateries and many French unsightly and prominent high-rise accommodation flats. Visitors are normally ‘herded’ into a C-shaped of pontoons from which it can be difficult to moor or leave!
Nick Fletcher kindly provided the above report
One and a half of the basins are given over to the active and serious-looking fishing fleet, with juggernauts reversing into the industrial complex to load up. That said, it is not intrusive and you might be lucky and some small vans are selling lobsters etc in the evenings at cheap prices. Oddly, there doesn’t seem to be a fishmonger in the town.
The HM manages the unusual visitors’ berthing with some authority, though perfectly pleasantly. The visitor berthing is in a not very large U shape with a small pontoon in the middle, and basically, it is rafted until it is one solid mass. As a motorboat, you would mess this up, so they will try to find somewhere else for you-so if you arrive and the visitors’ pontoon looks empty, do not get too settled as you will probably get moved.
I suspect many stop on passing as it is all tide access (non tidal), and as is so often the case the tidal access spots might have a bit more charm but may not fit into your schedule. Thin film of diesel everywhere, from the fishing fleet perhaps, and some diesel smell too on our visit. Sandy beach, baker and small market all within walking distance, though the newish major Super U is quite some trek out past the playing fields.
Oddly, not a cheap marina, especially once you add Euro 2 per person for a shower.
Not Passport Escales
Gavin May kindly provided the above report – 2021