Last Updated on August 6, 2025 by Colin Le Conte

Important points are that berthing is very limited. There is room for two points only alongside (more if rafted). The pictures show my 10.5m boat rafted onto a southerly 38 and two small motor boats.
The pontoon is located immediately to starboard after going through the narrow gated entrance (narrow but big trawlers get through).
There is power and water on the pontoon.

It may be helpful to know in advance that the cleats on the pontoon are really “hoops” that you need to pass your line through. If your usual method of mooring involves lassoing a cleat for example, it won’t work.

When we arrived, the two motorboats were alongside and after discussion with the harbourmaster, we moved one alongside the other to make room for the southerly and our boat.
It would be prudent to have a second harbour in mind if it is full.

The toilet facilities are very modern/look almost new and are good. There is however, only one male shower and toilet and the same for ladies. However, given realistically only 4 boats can stay, that is unlikely to be a problem.

Unusually, there is a small kitchenette that would be useful if you were in a day boat.

Payment is made in the tourist office which is on the other side of the road behind the lock keepers building and the showers etc are behind that -accessed through a locked gate that requires a code.

Note it is gate (like St. Vaast) rather than a lock and is either open or closed.
If it is windy (and it was a F6 when we were there), then there is quite a lot of surge that comes in through the harbour entrance and the pontoon rolls a lot whenever the gate is open and I wouldn’t want to go there again in similar conditions.

It is a very pretty place with numerous good quality eateries surrounding it and if the weather is settled and there is space for your boat it is a lovely place to visit, which is a bit different to your average marina.

I believe that mooring fees used to be very low. That no longer seems to be the case (unless your beam is very narrow).  Note they charge on beam as well as length (photo of charges attached).

There is a very large supermarket at the south end of the harbour which also sells gas and the bus to Bayeux and the Normandy beaches can be found there too. We went to Bayeux on the bus.

In The last picture (taken in front of the boats) you can see the lock keepers’ building and the relatively narrow entrance to the right of the boats.