Brittany in July -Crowded Marinas?

[Fr J Hackett]

The only time I have been refused a berth was at Port de Plaisance in the centre of the town which is why I went there but there are several other marinas to go to all of which I had passed.
You may find that Audierne is full or the only berth available is very tight and the tide runs strongly through it which can be a problem entering or leaving if you are a little early or late. However there is always St Evette where you can anchor or even pick up a buoy.

 

[Poignard]

I have only visited Audierne once. I had to raft up on a hammerhead alongside an apparently deserted French yacht.

After clambering clumsily over the guardwires of the French yacht and tramping over its decks rigging shore lines and a power cable, I sat back in my cockpit to enjoy a beer and survey the surroundings.

Suddenly the sliding hatch on the French yacht flew open and a tiny dishevelled woman appeared, looking none too clean and smoking a Caporal.

She glared at me for a while, then at my boat before announcing, in a rasping voice like Edith Piaf’s, “Un joli bateau, Monsieur”. She then disappeared below again and was seen no more.

 

[LadyInBed]

I have only visited Audierne once. I had to raft up on a hammerhead alongside an apparently deserted French yacht.

The year before last I crossed Biscay to St Evette and arrived just as the tide was starting to ebb so thought, what the hell, and went straight on into Audierne. I arrived at your hammerhead and rafted off an unmanned boat. A French boat that was crew heavy all sitting in the cockpit drinking watched me so I shouted to them in my best anglo-french to help me put some shorelines on, as we chatted they asked where I had come from, when I said Spain, they were gobsmacked and invited me across for several drinks and lunch. We had a great afternoon.