Cabotage and visits
Spring is getting closer and with it the mild temperatures and the lengthening days. Do you feel like sailing again? Cabotage en Bretagne offers tours to sail in a flotilla, and in complete safety thanks to a companion boat, which will reassure the less insured. Depending on the circuits, between 15 and 18 boats are part of the trip.
During a week, you can discover different navigation basins, alternating cabotage and cultural, heritage or natural visits. Open to small sailing boats, these tours allow you to discover places with a difficult reputation and to exploit the full potential of these units usually used on a daily basis in a convivial atmosphere.
"This format of alternating between cabotage and sightseeing also allows people with less appetite for boating to meet people, take nature walks, participate in local festivals." A good compromise to please the whole family.
Flotilla sailing
Each crew comes with its own yacht (owned or rented) or via the crew exchange to participate in the pre-booked tours. If the idea is to sail all together, everyone sails at their own pace: "We brief before and after sailing, explain any difficulties that may arise, and depart at a set time in a flotilla." . If necessary, the accompanying boat is there to help or reassure them. "A team of two to three people supervise on a 20-foot RIB - almost as big as the group's boats - and switch from one boat to the other while sailing." It is also used for landings once at anchor.
In addition to the semi-rigid, a base boat of about 10 m and maneuvered by one or two people, serves as a hotel for the accompanying crew. "It's a little bigger than the others and it demystifies the idea of the unmanageable boat. We're showing the coasters that with a 30-foot boat that can be run aground you can do the same course as they can."
Group life and intimacy
As far as life on board is concerned, everyone is autonomous, even if the idea is to sail together. The crews sleep on board their boat and eat their meals there. "Boaters are both autonomous but also participate in a group life. We try to preserve their privacy, but we also have two group meals a week scheduled by the organization and a potluck party where everyone brings their own food for a big shared meal."
