Nautical Rally on the Arcachon Basin

Water everywhere at high tide, large open spaces at low tide, beaches all around, an island in the middle is the Arcachon basin.

During this nautical rally, you will leave for an astonishing journey to meet the most beautiful places in the Bassin d’Arcachon. “The Cap Ferret peninsula with its typical villages and discreet discrete villas, Bird Island and Its emblematic tchanque hut (huts on stilts) or the imposing and no less surprising dune of the Pyla.

Accompanied by your Captain, you will have to respond as a team to the questions asked and carry out the various challenges using your knowledge and your sense of observation. The goal is to invite you to take a different look at the environment; To learn through play, the history of the Bassin d’Arcachon through its natural, cultural and gastronomic riches. On the program: Reading of nautical charts and azimuth plotting, manual calculation of the speed of a boat, fabrication of sea nodes, blind wine tasting. Etc.

To help you in this adventure a trunk loaded with different materials and good bottles will be entrusted to you. Now ahead, you are on the right course!

During this “cruise”, we will stop in an authentic fishing village for a tasting of oysters at an oyster farmer “feet in the water” and according to terms given, the boats will come “beacher” on the bench Of Arguin, sandbank facing the dune of the pyla and the cap ferret.

We recommend lunch on board. Lunch “flavors nature” prepared by our Chef. True moment of conviviality: The boats go in couple with the shelter of the wind … not to be missed.