West Brittany - recommenced charts and cruising guides?

[Robin]

I ad a bucket list wish to pass between the towers into La Rochelle, pictured in Adlard Coles, done eventually by dinghy to avoid a very lengthy walk. I Remember groups of druggies, begging around the inner basins quite off putting.

Agree with John about anchoring, a bit of prospecting goes far hereabouts.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

For south Brittany there is no folio so we used the Imray Charts C36 to 39 and their South Brittany Pilot book. Our old chart plotter covered as far as Ushant approaches but we got paper chart of Aberwrach area on the approach from the east is complex and full of sharp pointed rocks and islands and our landfall had been in a foggy dawn - just like this years - and chart plotter was temperamental.

I thorough recommend Morbihan and Belle Ile

 

[Poignard]

For south Brittany there is no folio so we used the Imray Charts C36 to 39 and their South Brittany Pilot book. Our old chart plotter covered as far as Ushant approaches but we got paper chart of Aberwrach area on the approach from the east is complex and full of sharp pointed rocks and islands and our landfall had been in a foggy dawn - just like this years - and chart plotter was temperamental.

I thorough recommend Morbihan and Belle Ile

I carry Imray charts and for a pilot book I use the Bloc Marine.

For the Golfe du Morbihan I have a Navicarte A3 size laminated chart:

https://www.nautic-way.com/en_EN/equipment/crockery-glasses/navicarte-mininav-golfe-du-morbihan

This is useful because with the strong tidal currents in the Golfe you can find yourself travelling very fast. I have it in the cockpit and tick off where I am with a Chinagraph pencil.

 

[dunedin]

For south Brittany there is no folio so we used the Imray Charts C36 to 39 ..........

NV Charts do folios (albeit recently changed from chart sheets to Atlas book style) for South Brittany. Possibly two books needed, but much more detailed and useful than the super small scale Imray C sheets. https://www.bookharbour.com/fr-5-nv-atlas-france-douarnenez-a-lorient

 

[zoidberg]

I had a YM candidate try to tell me a few weeks ago that because there wasn't a little 'anchor symbol' on the chart, you couldn't anchor there.

He'd probably been told that by a YMI who enjoyed quiet anchorages himself ( all genders included ) and wanted to scare off the hoi polloi......

Probably worked.


I have my own favourite quiet anchorages among the islets west of Pointe St Mathieu.....

 

[oldmanofthehills]

NV Charts do folios (albeit recently changed from chart sheets to Atlas book style) for South Brittany. Possibly two books needed, but much more detailed and useful than the super small scale Imray C sheets. https://www.bookharbour.com/fr-5-nv-atlas-france-douarnenez-a-lorient

I knew of atlas but thought enclosed charts were much smaller than Imray, which are A2 or thereabouts. Did they break each chart up into several A4 pages? If so a bit harder for passage planing

 

[john_morris_uk]

He'd probably been told that by a YMI who enjoyed quiet anchorages himself ( all genders included ) and wanted to scare off the hoi polloi......

Probably worked.


I have my own favourite quiet anchorages among the islets west of Pointe St Mathieu.....

A cunning plan that I will adopt from now on.

 

[dunedin]

I knew of atlas but thought enclosed charts were much smaller than Imray, which are A2 or thereabouts. Did they break each chart up into several A4 pages? If so a bit harder for passage planing

I think the Atlas is A3 size (rather than A4) and folds out to A2 size. That’s what the specs say, and is consistent with my NV Baltic Charts, though my Brittany charts are the older version is the sheet Folio