Liveaboard mooring in Paris

[hannahd]

We are looking for a liveaboard mooring in Paris. I know they're rare, just wondering if anyone has any tips. We're on the waiting list at Port Arsenal. Would like to move the boat over next March; it's 60ft.

 

[Sybarite]

We are looking for a liveaboard mooring in Paris. I know they're rare, just wondering if anyone has any tips. We're on the waiting list at Port Arsenal. Would like to move the boat over next March; it's 60ft.

I don't know what the waiting lists are like for a mooring in Paris but I imagine they must be pretty long.

Have you considered a mooring say 30km from Paris and then commuting? In the Yvelines or the Marne?

 

[hannahd]

Have you considered a mooring say 30km from Paris and then commuting? In the Yvelines or the Marne?

Certainly, but I'm finding it difficult to find information on moorings. If you have any specific recommendations I would be very grateful.

 

[tcm]

username "grehan" is usually worth contaacting on Fr inland waterway things. Or via their website....

 

[macd]

I gather it helps if you're a film star, albeit a reluctant one:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/n...n-his-houseboat-in-paris-news-photo/166534088

Incidentally, in his pre-Hollywood days Hayden had a convincing CV as a mariner, on schooners (one one of which he was later master), fishing off the Grand Banks, war service as a (naval) captain in the OSS, sailing to Tahiti with his four kids, etc. Sorry none of this helps your immediate need, but it perhaps adds a little colour.

 

[Grehan]

River Seine and Paris . . .
Seine - http://www.french-waterways.com/waterways/seine-basse.html
Paris - http://www.french-waterways.com/waterways/paris.html

The experts on liveaboard peniche-size moorings in Paris are our partners at Eau et Patrimoine - http://www.french-waterways.com/property/eau-et-patrimoine.html
Here's our guide to living aboard a peniche in central Paris - http://www.french-waterways.com/property/houseboat-barges-paris.html - written with their help.

But true longer-term barge moorings for one's own barge/large boat to slot into are very difficult to obtain. I mean, very very . . .

 

[Grehan]

I gather it helps if you're a film star, albeit a reluctant one:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/n...n-his-houseboat-in-paris-news-photo/166534088

Incidentally, in his pre-Hollywood days Hayden had a convincing CV as a mariner, on schooners (one one of which he was later master), fishing off the Grand Banks, war service as a (naval) captain in the OSS, sailing to Tahiti with his four kids, etc. Sorry none of this helps your immediate need, but it perhaps adds a little colour.

His barge, the Who Knows is still going strong - http://www.french-waterways.com/boats/who-knows/ - and if anyone's interested in owning and operating such a hotel barge please PM me.

 

[macd]

His barge, the Who Knows is still going strong.

Thanks, Grehan. Good to know. Hayden was the real deal on water, although a Paris barge probably didn't challenge him very much (apart from ladders after a night out, perhaps).