golfe du morbihan

whitstablerib · 13 May 2013, 09:25

Hi, has anyone taken their rib here? if so, any advice please. will be staying in a campsite so need somewhere(ie a marina) to leave for 2 weeks

thanks

Starovich · 13 May 2013, 10:48

we left our boat in trinte ser mer better shopping and such like and access to Carnac and quiberion

gotchiguy · 13 May 2013, 13:48

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Originally Posted by whitstablerib

Hi, has anyone taken their rib here? if so, any advice please. will be staying in a campsite so need somewhere(ie a marina) to leave for 2 weeks

thanks

Yeah we trailered our old 4m down there a couple of times, wonderfully interesting area.

With the 4m there was plenty to explore inside the golfe but with a 6.5 you would get bored after a couple of days but there are loads of places around such as Quiberon and Belle Ile, Ile Groix, and down to St Nazaire etc.

There is loads to see. We took ours to La Trinite marina the first time but while there discovered crouesty marina on the tip of the "sticky outy bit". Massive marina with loads of space and I think a camp site close by. Plenty of space for trailer around the marina too. Much more practical than LTS/M

http://www.crouesty.co.uk/

If you need anything else don't hesitate to ask

Pikey Dave · 13 May 2013, 18:32

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Originally Posted by gotchiguy

Yeah we trailered our old 4m down there a couple of times, wonderfully interesting area.

With the 4m there was plenty to explore inside the golfe but with a 6.5 you would get bored after a couple of days but there are loads of places around such as Quiberon and Belle Ile, Ile Groix, and down to St Nazaire etc.

There is loads to see. We took ours to La Trinite marina the first time but while there discovered crouesty marina on the tip of the "sticky outy bit". Massive marina with loads of space and I think a camp site close by. Plenty of space for trailer around the marina too. Much more practical than LTS/M

http://www.crouesty.co.uk/

If you need anything else don't hesitate to ask

Are you going to try & get ITR round to Barfleur again this August?

gotchiguy · 13 May 2013, 18:46

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Originally Posted by Pikey Dave

Are you going to try & get ITR round to Barfleur again this August?

If it can make it this time

But yes, will be going as far as possible in that direction in August. Try and do the Normandy beaches and perhaps get all the way up to Calais.

Have you got your dates planned yet? Would be good to have that fishing lesson sometime...

whitstablerib · 16 May 2013, 12:02

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Originally Posted by gotchiguy

Yeah we trailered our old 4m down there a couple of times, wonderfully interesting area.

With the 4m there was plenty to explore inside the golfe but with a 6.5 you would get bored after a couple of days but there are loads of places around such as Quiberon and Belle Ile, Ile Groix, and down to St Nazaire etc.

There is loads to see. We took ours to La Trinite marina the first time but while there discovered crouesty marina on the tip of the "sticky outy bit". Massive marina with loads of space and I think a camp site close by. Plenty of space for trailer around the marina too. Much more practical than LTS/M

http://www.crouesty.co.uk/

If you need anything else don't hesitate to ask

Hi, how long would it take from Calais?

gotchiguy · 16 May 2013, 14:06

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Originally Posted by whitstablerib

Hi, how long would it take from Calais?

Google reckons 6 hours, probably more. That's a lot of journey. I've done Calais - St malo a few times with no boat and that's bad enough.

You would be much better off with the Portsmouth - St Malo overnight ferry on the way out then the ferry we find best on the way back (St malo is all day on the way back) if the Caen ferry. Leaves at 16:30 each day so you could leave early/mid morning to get there which is much more civilised. Depends how far you are from Portsmouth I suppose as it gets in quite late but there's no traffic at that time.

JamesF · 16 May 2013, 16:11

We drove back home (without a trailer) from that area last year when Brittany Ferries had a strike on the French side. It looked a really nice place for boating.

If I remember rightly, it took around seven hours with three drivers and two very short stops on the way. That was from Le Faouët, so about 3/4 of an hour longer than from the Golfe du Morbihan.

(The idea was to get the Roscoff-Plymouth ferry. What we ended up doing was 13 hours' driving from Brittany to Calais, then Dover to Exeter.)

whitstablerib · 16 May 2013, 16:21

thanks for that. My sister says 13 hours to brittany-think she is still in reverse!

I thought 7-8 hrs!

gotchiguy · 18 May 2013, 20:03

Looks like we may actually be going again this year, but we would be boating round as we don't have a trailer. It's about 250nm from us around, so 3 days hard work should do it. We are looking at going from right at the end of August, and spending about a week then coming back at a more leisurely pace. So we would be there from 2nd - 11th September.

whitstablerib · 03 June 2013, 07:34

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Originally Posted by gotchiguy

Looks like we may actually be going again this year, but we would be boating round as we don't have a trailer. It's about 250nm from us around, so 3 days hard work should do it. We are looking at going from right at the end of August, and spending about a week then coming back at a more leisurely pace. So we would be there from 2nd - 11th September.

We are booked in for the first 10 days of August so will miss u. I'll be in contact with areas that we have discovered. Good luck with the trip, sounds the way to go!