|
Company |
Routes |
Approximate Times |
P & O Portsmouth
Peninsular House
Wharf Road
Portsmouth P02 8TA
Tel: 08705 20 20 20
www.poferries.com |
Portsmouth – Le Havre |
5 hours 30 (day sailing) |
|
Portsmouth – Le Havre |
7 hours or 8 hours if include
French tour (night sailing) |
|
Portsmouth – Cherboug |
5 hours (day sailing) |
|
Portsmouth – Cherbourg |
7 hours or 8 hours if include
French tour (night sailing) |
Portsmouth – Cherbourg
(Portsmouth Express) |
2 hours 45 (April – Sept) |
|
Dover - Calais |
|
|
Hull - Zeebrugge |
|
SeaFrance
Eastern Docks
Dove, Kent
CT16 1JA
Tel: 08705 711 711
www.seafrance.com |
Dover – Calais |
From 1 hour 10 and 1 hour 30
(depending on the vessel) |
Southern Ferries/SNCM
179 Piccadilly
London W1V 9DB
Tel: 0207 491 4968
Fax: 0207 491 3502
www.sncm.fr |
From Marseilles to:
Bastia, Calvi, Ile Rousse, Ajaccio, Propriano, Porto-Vecchio |
From 9 hours to 12 hours |
|
Nice – Calvi/Ile Rousse |
3 hours |
|
Nice – Bastia |
3 hours 40 (day sailing)
7 hours 30 (night sailing) |
|
Nice – Ajaccio |
4 hours 15 (day sailing)
7 hours 30 (night sailing) |
Brittany Ferries
The Brittany Centre
Wharf Road
Portsmouth PO2 8RU
Tel: 08705 360 360
www.brittanyferries.com |
Portsmouth – Caen |
6 hours |
|
Portsmouth – St Malo |
8 hours 45 |
|
Poole - Cherbourg |
4 hours 15 |
|
(fast ferry May 26 to Sept 30)
|
2 hours 15 minutes |
|
Plymouth - Roscoff
|
6 hours |
|
Plus overnight sailings on all
routes (not on fast ferries) |
|
Condor Ferries
The Quay
Weymouth DT4 8DX
Tel: 0845 345 2000
Fax: 01305 760 776
www.condorferries.co.uk
* via Guernsey et Jersey
** via Jersey |
Weymouth - Guernsey |
2 hours |
|
Weymouth - Jersey |
3 hours 15 |
|
Poole - St Malo* |
5 hours 30 |
|
Poole - Guernsey |
2 hours 30 |
|
Poole - Jersey |
3 hours 45 |
|
Guernsey - St Malo** |
1 hours 45 |
|
Jersey - St Malo |
1 hour 15 |
Hoverspeed Fast Ferries
International
Hoverport
Dover CT17 9TG
Tel: 08705 240 241
Fax: 0870 4607 102
www.hoverspeed.co.uk |
Dover - Calais (Seacat) |
45 minutes |
|
Newhaven - Dieppe (Superseacat) |
2 hours |
Norfolkline
Eastern Dock
Dover CT16 1JA
Tel: 0870 870 1020
Fax: 0130 421 8415
www.norfolkline.com |
Dover - Dunkerque |
2 hours |
SpeedFerries Ltd.
209 East Camber
Office Building
Eastern Docks
Dover, Kent
CT16 1JA
Tel: 08700 60 39 00
www.speedferries.com |
Dover – Boulogne
(Bookings from the 22 April) |
50 minutes |
House-boat
The Féderation des Industries Nautiques
[association of companies in the boating trade groups together
sea and river boat hire companies, and a list of them can be
sent to you by request.
France has a particularly rich network of
canals and rivers, 8,500km long, allowing you to discover the
country in depth, as you slowly go along from lock to lock.
Navigating France: licences, river moorings,
fuel…
A licence is needed to operate French
motorised pleasure boats at sea where the actual horsepower of
the engine or engines is/are higher than 4.5kW (6 HP). There
are three types of licence:
- la carte mer [sea licence]
- le permis mer côtier [coastal licence]
- le permis mer hauturier [deep-sea/ocean licence]
There are specific licences for navigating
on inland waters.
Licences to operate motorised pleasure boats at sea only give
the right to pilot by agreement. Any person operating a
pleasure boat professionally must have the recognised
professional qualifications.
The regulations are on
