Dahouet - Pléneuf Val-André

Picture by marinas.com

Picture by marinas.com

The entrance to the channel leading to the marina. Do not pass too close to the white and green tower. You can just see the red post on the far rock

Slipway below the monument, note the 2 white posts - don't go inside them!

Entrance to the Marina from the sea side. Entrance is marked with normal red and green posts, yellow posts show the marina wall

Entrance to the Marina - visitorsmoorings are on the right. No fingers - just a long pontoon like Carteret

Facilities at the top of the visitors ramp

Marina Office

The beach leading the Town - Plage du Val Andre

Dahouet is 59nm from Guernsey.

Unlike some other places everything was open early in the season (April). We believe the marina opens about 2 hours either side of high tide but have not yet found official information.

Val Andre is ten mins on bike or 25 mins walk. Lovely beach there.

There is also a small chandlery in Dahouet, a tabac/bar, a boulangerie and a take-away. Good, clean showers and loos just above Visitors pontoon. Also a clothes shop/chandlery at top of pontoon gangways. Dahouet is across the bay ESE ish from St Quay.

. Dahouet itself is very quaint and usually not too crowded however, Pleneuf-Val-Andre is a short cycle or walk along the coast. A typical French holiday resort with excellent beach, casino and lots going on.

The entrance to Dahouet is a little forbidding but not a hairy as it looks. A bit like going into a bigger and wider version of Beaucette.

 http://marinas.com/view/marina/8467_La_Caderie_Marina 

http://www.portbooker.com/en/moorings/france/bretagne/departement-des-co...

Pilot Guide - http://www.val-andre.org/english/plages_et_ports/plages_et_ports.php Contact information

http://www.bretagne-info-nautisme.fr/Dahouet.html?lang=en&retour=back

E-mail - portdahouet.pva@wanadoo.fr

 Wikipedia - (french) - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahouet Nice picture

Pictures -

http://wiki.worldflicks.org/port_de_dahouët.html#coords=(48.578566, -2.56799)&z=16

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/14718770

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/France/photo1022653.htm Pléneuf Val-André Sites

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/France/West/Bretagne/Pleneuf-Val...

Tides - http://tide.frbateaux.net/56 About half way up the harbour in Dahouet there is a beacon (green?) on the starboard side with a reading of the depth over the sill at the time.

Map -  http://www.val-andre.org/english/plan/plan.php

Weather - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/FR/0/PleneufValAndre.html

Tourist site - http://www.val-andre.org/english/accueil/accueil.php

Campsites - http://www.val-andre.org/english/camping/camping.php

Restaurants There are basically three eating places on the quay (opposite the marina in Dahouet). The Petite Navire the Tiwanee and Le Zef. A 2011 visitor from Guernsey reported. "Ate at the Tiwanee the first night. Its very good food, menu good choice, and good value. Its half way down the quay and there are two trees in front which obscure the name. Normally they only open in June/July/August but they are opening weekends only early in the season this year and seeing what demand is like. Very good atmosphere. (tel 02 96 63 05 85. Quai des Terre-Neuvas)

Tiwanee At Le Zef there is limited choice (but good moules). A bit expensive for what it was.

Le Zef We have eaten at Petite Navire in the past and it was perfectly ok. (02 96 72 96 92 Quai des Terre-Neuvas)

Le Petit Navire There is also L'Atelier--a cafe with basic food. Otherwise there are many restaurants in Val Andre--ten mins on bike or 25 mins walk."