Departure Base

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

Starting out formalities & boarding

Locaboat Holidays
28 rue du Golfe
ST MARTIN S/ OUST, FR 56200 

✉:  saint-martin-sur-oust@locaboat.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
  • Covered, unguarded: 56 € / 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 Tastard Myriam tel. : +33 (0)6 12 81 56 91
  • 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
  • “La Ciboulette” Pont d’Oust (5km)
    +33 (0)2 99 71 45 71
 Shops:

  • Closed on Sunday afternoon

Markets:

  • At La Gacilly (8 km) each Saturday morning
  • At La Malansac (8 km) each Tuesday morning

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

Waterways:
Canal de Nantes à Brest, direction Pontivy: locks are open daily from 9 am to 12.30 pm and 1.30 to 6.45 or 7.15 pm. There are lock keepers at every lock. Direction Nantes, the locks are open daily from 9.15 am to 7 pm. There are lock keepers at every lock except for four locks (to be operated by the crew).

Vilaine, Canal d’Ille-et-Rance: locks are open daily 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and 1.30 to 6.45 or 7.15 pm. Sometimes the same lock keeper accompanies a boat through several locks.Locks are open every day, no closure on public holidays.