Departure Base

Discover all the useful information and advice related to your departure base.

Starting out formalities & boarding

Riverly Saint-Martin-sur-Oust (Locaboat)
28 rue du Golfe
ST MARTIN S/ OUST, FR 56200 

✉: saint-martin-sur-oust@riverly.com
T: + 33 (0)2 99 72 15 80/ +33 (0) 6 74 99 72 10
G: N 47°44’44.93  – W 02°15’43.714

Starting out formalities:

Departure days between 2 and 6pm.

Return day between 8 and 9am.

 Boarding:

As soon as the boat is ready.
On site:

WC / showers (opening hours are indicated at the Port office), picnic area.

How to get to the base

Access:

 Car park:

  • Closed, unguarded: €42 / week
  • Public, unenclosed and unguarded: free
Car hire:

  • Loxity tel. : 02 57 96 03 00
  • Europcar (Redon 20 km) tel. : 02 99 71 01 00
  • Hertz (Rennes airport, 63 km) tel. : 02 99 54 26 52
 Taxi:

  • Taxi Chapin tel. : +33 (0)2 99 71 72 09

Hotels, restaurants and shopping facilities on site

Restaurants:

  • “Chez Bernard” Saint Martin sur Oust
    +33 (0)2 99 91 53 84 lunchtime only, except in July, August and September
  • Many restaurants in Rochefort-en-Terre (15 min by car)
  • Many restaurants in La Gacilly (15 min by car)
 Shops:

  • Closed on Sunday afternoon

Markets:

  • Intermarché (La Gacilly): 15 minutes away.
  • Super U (Malansac): 10 minutes away.
  • Closed Sunday afternoon.
  • Proxi convenience store in Saint-Martin-sur-Oust (Tobacco – Press/Newsagent – Fishing gear)
  • Opening hours: 7:30 am – 12:30 pm / 2:30 pm – 7:00 pm, Tuesday: Closed – Sunday: 8:30 am – 12:30 pm

Touristic Information

Gastronomic specialities:

  • Shell fish, crêpes and galettes, andouille, fresh water and salt water fish specialities, chestnut based specialities.
 Local drinks:

  • Wine of Muscadet, Gros Plan of Loire, Cidre, Homemade Cider, Breton beer, Cervoise, Chouchen.
To see:

  • The Saint Mathurin and Saint Léonard chapels, the Castellan castle, the La Née dam.
 Fishing:

  • Fishing licence obligatory: on sale at  Garage Rubeaux, 19 av. de la Libération – 56200 Saint-Martin-sur-Oust
    Eel, tench, bream, carp, roach, bleak, trout, perch, zander, pike, black-bass…
Tourist office:

  

Information on the waterways

Locks (Brittany and Loire-Atlantique): They are all operated by lock keepers and are open 7 days a week.

Low season: 9:00 am – 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm.

High season: 9:00 am – 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm – 7:00 pm.