Through the French Canals: The Complete Planning Guide to Cruising the French Waterways

Through the French Canals is a comprehensive planning guide for cruising the French waterways, including over 50 routes, lock positions, towns, villages, distances, and suitable boats. It also provides information on local facilities, haltes, ports de plaisance, VNF License fees, cruise hire companies, holding tanks, diesel availability, and costs of cruising.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 328 pages
\n Publication date: 15 April 2021
\n Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Through the French Canals has undoubtedly enticed more people to explore the picturesque waterways of France than any other book. Originally published in 1970, it has remained the definitive authoritative guide on cruising the French canals ever since. The revised and updated new edition is an indispensable comprehensive planning resource for anyone seeking to embark on a cruise through the French waterways or navigate their boat from the English Channel to the Mediterranean via the inland route. It encompasses:

• Over 50 meticulously described and illustrated routes, encompassing positions of locks, towns, and villages along routes from the English Channel and Atlantic to the Mediterranean, along with distances, and an assessment of suitable boats for the canals.


• Detailed information on lock dimensions, operating times, bridge heights, canal depths, fueling points, water signals, a guide to the cost of living, shopping, and stores, sources of weather information, halts for overnight stays, and ports de plaisance.


• New photography, along with ongoing updates throughout, including new information on local facilities, new halts and ports de plaisance, revised VNF License fees, updates to cruise hire companies, revised references to holding tanks, availability of diesel, and costs of cruising, among many other valuable additions.

\n Weight: 604g\n
Dimension: 149 x 209 x 19 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781472981769\n
Edition number: 14 ed\n