winter storage in France

[Guest]

This summer I'll be cruising the waterways south from Holland to central france. I plan on leaving my boat for the winter in France. Can anyone recommend a place to leave the boat?

Jerry McDaniel
San Francisco

 

[saskia]

My boat's very comfortably berthed with H2O at St Jean de Losne. You can check them out at www.h2ofrance.com. Prices not bad, they'll do regular chores or major works and they're handily located where the Canal de Bourgogne meets the Saone.

 

[charles_reed]

Suggest you try Marans, up the Sevre-Niortaise, just N of la Rochelle.

Utterly safe (no damage during La Tempete Noel when 140 boats and 5km of pontoon were sunk at les Minimes), very friendly town with good facilities and the cost year before last for a 10m boat was FF252/month overwintering.

Flights from la Rochelle-Stansted by Buzz for as little as L19 (sorry having to use a Spanish keyboard). I was paying FF580 for TGV and Eurostar return to London.