minimum age: 15-16 years (depending on sailing experience, please contact us for details).
Shared: guaranteed departure from 2 people.
Compulsory FFV "Passeport Voile" pass to be paid on second leg: €14/person (valid for 1 year).
For food and non-alcoholic beverages, allow €20/day/person.
As bedding is not included, please bring your own sleeping bag.
Overnight stay on board the day before is possible for €30/person. Ask your skipper about this administrative formality.
- Available on :
- Full boat
- Cabin cruise
Your cruise
Embark with one of this company's 5 professional skippers in La Rochelle and set sail for 5 islands in Charente and Southern Brittany!
Discover the islands of Charente and Southern Brittany: Ré, Oléron, Houat , Hoëdic, Belle Ile or Ile d'Yeu on a sailing cruise with an experienced professional skipper! To find out more about these islands, click here.
Your possible stops during this cruise
Sailboat cruise program from La Rochelle:
Departing from La Rochelle, you'll have plenty of opportunities to stop off and anchor on the beautiful islands of Ré, Oléron, Houat, Hoëdic, Belle-Île or Ile d'Yeu, all of which are well sheltered from offshore swells, allowing you to sail in all weathers.
To reward your efforts at maneuvering, discover local specialties and treat yourself to an oyster or seafood tasting.
In the evenings, you can head into the city centers for lively, dynamic evenings.
If cabins are occupied, the skipper sleeps in the middle
Passengers manage cooking
- Places of embarkation:Les Minimes Port - La Rochelle
- Boarding time:10h00 / 10am
- Time of landing:17h00 / 5pm
From Paris, we recommend car, car-sharing or train. Allow 4h15 by car, 3h15 by train (remember to buy your tickets as early as possible!)
Nice cruise and good atmosphere with Julia, a skipper in retraining who was very attentive. Comfortable and well-equipped boat for 4. For our crew, the route of the cruise was a collective decision, but contrary to the title of the advertisement, there was little chance of going up to the Breton islands unless we did a lot of night sailing and no doubt motoring. However, between the Ile de Ré, the Ile d'Yeu and the Ile d'Oléron, there's plenty to do over 5 days. In short, a good course with plenty of practical and theoretical learning, which corresponded to my expectations and pleased my 17-year-old daughter, who is new to cruising
Régis, the company manager, is very friendly (we met him at anchor, and he's full of incredible anecdotes) Julia, our passionate skipper Unfortunately, I didn't contact Elise for practical advice (free parking in front of the pontoon, less late directions) etc.... don't hesitate!
A dynamic cruise: night arrival at 2 a.m. and departure at 4 a.m. on another day (but it was the crew's choice to sail at night) A magical interlude for my 17-year-old daughter: dolphins accompanying our boat
Great first cruise experience! Great sailing program to Ile d'Yeu. We learned a lot and learned fast. Great atmosphere on the boat, magnificent sunsets (sometimes accompanied by dolphins!)
Many thanks to Stéphane for his teaching skills and good humour!
We sailed the boat for a week, and it's pretty well maintained. We didn't have the best weather conditions for the week (little wind). The skipper had very good theoretical and practical knowledge which he shared with pleasure. We would have liked the skipper to participate as much as the trainees in the daily tasks and for him to impose his choice of destinations less. I'd have liked to have gone to anchor a bit wilder, and not just in ports / pontoons... The skipper is invited by the trainees (meals), a choice made by the company that I don't fully endorse.
Nothing more to report
Omelette evening where we put all the leftovers and had a lot of fun :-)
VERY GOOD EXPERIENCE ON THE SAILBOAT AND DELIGHTED WITH THIS CRUISE WE HAD A GOOD WEEK WITHOUT RAIN!!COMPLETE CHANGE OF SCENERY. WE HAD TO GO TO THE SANDS OF OLONNE BUT SINCE IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR ME ON THE SECOND DAY SEASICK WHICH DIDN'T STOP ME FROM CONTINUING THE ADVENTURE. SO WITH THE ADVICE OF THE SKIPPER AND OTHERS WE STAYED AROUND THE ROCHELLE SAINT DENIS D OLERON FORT BOYARD ILE D AIX ETC...... I THANK THEM WHICH MADE ME WANT TO CONTINUE THIS FIRST EXPERIENCE AFTERWARDS. VERY GOOD ATMOSPHERE, RESPECT FOR EVERYONE AND SHARING OF TASKS. ON THE OTHER HAND FOR THE RACES IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WISE TO PUT MENUS ACCORDING TO THE RACES DONE!!!
The skipper is for me a very good pedagogue and communicator, calm and serene when we have to make the different gestures on the boat when we start this is reassuring and we are also serene and always there if we have a question, which may seem silly or schematize us by a drawing in order to better understand the different threshold data ,tidal calculation of marees etc ;thank you .
Superb crew, wonderful stopovers and life on board without any problems under Elise's competence and beautiful smile
Elise has only one defect: her capstan knots don't hold and she too often loses her fenders strangely attached to a bucket
A first day leaning under the chains 😩😩 Et a small restaurant in Oléron very nice
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Travel Agency Warranty
Customer Satisfaction 4.75 / 5