Le Palais or Sauzon
Belle-Îleeuros! This long rocky island of 17 km is worth a visit. Seen from the sea, one cannot help but admire its rocky cliffs, carved by the winds and the swell. If the "côte Sauvage" which stretches from the tip of Talut to the tip of Poulains is beautiful, it does not offer any shelter. It is therefore necessary to branch off facing Quiberon Bay, on the coast protected from the winds. Discover the Sauzon Marine Guide and give your opinion on the port.
Sauzon surrounded in red faces the bay of Quiberon
Here, you will find two ports, Le Palais, a fishing and pleasure port, from where departures and arrivals from the mainland are made. At the foot of the Vauban citadel, access is regulated by the lock gates and the days are punctuated by the noisy arrivals and departures of the many and varied ships.
Mooring on a trunk or in the back harbor
euros the grandiloquence of the port of the Palace prefer the discreet charm of the port of Sauzon . The latter is located 1.7 miles from Pointe des Poulains, at the mouth of a cove about 150 meters wide. Several anchorages are available, the one at Port-Bellec, outside and the one in the outer harbor are strongly exposed to northeast to east winds.
The first one, outside, is on trunk only and offers 22 visitor places for boats up to 15 m long.
The outer harbor is protected by piers that frame a 60 m wide and 3 m deep channel. The east side is reserved for fishermen while along the right quay, to the west, 40 places are reserved for visitors in couples. Embossing (a technique that consists in mooring the boat in a given direction) on the white buoys is mandatory. This mooring is reserved only for monohulls with a maximum length of 12.5 m and a maximum draught of 2 m.
In the inner harbor, the beaching harbor is well sheltered, but particularly suitable for dinghies and keelboats with crutches.
During the season, you can count on the welcome and help of the port agents, on their rigid red dinghy. They are also the ones who will collect the port tax. However, you can pay it at the harbor master's office.
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To disembark on land, take a dinghy and moor it along the west pier. Ladders allow you to climb up to the dock, especially at low tide. Be careful, the passage between the dinghy and the ladder is sometimes tricky, especially when you are loaded.
Continue along the pier euros beware of the many oyster shells embedded in the concrete euros to the green lighthouse, at the foot of which is the terrace of the hotel-restaurant "Hotel du Phare."
Pretty and colorful facades
In front of the port, you will find many restaurants and hotels whose colorful facades make you want to linger on the terrace with a view of the sea.
On the Quai Guerveur, between the restaurant l'abricotier and the harbor office, there are public toilets and toilets reserved for boaters, with washing machines and dryers.
A little further, following the Quai Guerveur, take the Quai Joseph Naudin which will lead you to a mini-market, a bakery as well as the majestic church Saint-Nicolas de Sauzon, of neo-roman style, built in 1894. Going inland, you will discover many paths to explore the wild coast of the island.
