Granville northwards

[Grehan]

In a similar vein to my Guernsey? posting . . .

Has anyone any experience of the Normandy west coast between Granville and Carteret?
For example, the Sienne estuary at Regneville?

Obviously rocky in parts, but also dries out to sand. We're wondering about the feasibility of overnighting in those parts. Grehan will beach easily and float in 0.75m.
Are westerlies (lee shore) a big potential problem?

Once again, thanks in advance.

 

[DepSol]

Sorry cant help you there but I do know abot Carteret and Dielette. See my message on Guernsey.

Dom


I just want my boat back in the water ;-(

 

[Twister_Ken]

Granville Northwards - wasn't he the hero in a John Buchan novel? Or maybe the bad guy in an early Simon Templar film?

 

[DepSol]

No he was the guy David jason played in Open all hours

Dom


I just want my boat back in the water ;-(

 

[TonyMS]

Portbail is a lovely place, if you can dry out on fairly firm sand ok.

However, last year we decided on a second night anchored in the estuary, not in the little marina. The tide switched from flood around 2 knots flood to 4 knots ebb in an instant, and gave us some nasty moments as the anchor pulled out and didn't reset for around 100 metres.

 

[Grehan]

Cotentin website

For anyone that's interested, as a result of this posting in Another Place I've been recommended a website

http://www.goldschmidt.org/Normandie/Cotentin/cotentin.html

which is first class.

In French, but you can get AltaVista's Babelfish translation website to interpret it. The French to English results are very humorous! "Moorings" are translated as "Dampings".
[that's http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn]