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Cabotages.Coastwise
You’re not taking a gap year, don’t have a yacht equipped for a round-the-world trip, you don’t fancy facing the roaring forty or the China Sea typhoons? In that case, you’re just like us, like 95 per cent of pleasure-boaters.
Cabotages.Coastwise et Cabotages.fr are there to encourage you to leave the harbour more often, to take off for the weekend to the next port of call or berth, to go off on coastal treks to discover an area that changes mile by mile.
Cerbère – Sainte Maxime by the coast is not the same as Saint Malo – Pointe à Pitre by the Route du Rhum, and yet, the pleasure of coastal navigation is a matter for seafarers. You need to have technique and a quick eye, be permanently vigilant, know how to anticipate the whims of the weather, constantly negotiate your journey with the other seafarers. You also need the boats and equipment for that. The coastal pleasure-boater is a real sailor!
Which is hardest: being carried for days on end by the trade winds in the blue desert, or navigating according to the thirty-two winds of the Mediterranean, between capes, underwater rocks, sand banks, trawlers and ferries?
Which is more dangerous when there’s a sudden gust of wind: the open sea where there’s always plenty of water to sail in or the coast that you can drift towards?
Which requires the greatest qualities of manoeuvre: a long journey on automatic pilot or tacking here and there, jammed ports that you have to enter and exit every day, narrow creeks and sandy shallows for casting anchor?
Cabotages will be your guide for the third season running, along this six-mile long strip of the most complex, most spectacular and richest navigation areas, and also for the four paces that you will travel on land, to discover the treasures in the nearby towns, including amusement, culture and gourmet food.
Enjoy your sailing!
Christophe Naigeon, Alain Pasquet
