Yacht Day from Cannes
Day or half day at sea
Cannes has an advantage neither Saint-Tropez nor Monaco can claim: the anchorage lies directly opposite the port. A quarter of an hour after casting off you are sheltered behind Sainte-Marguerite, which makes possible here what is possible almost nowhere else on the coast, a genuine half day at sea. Leave at noon, lunch at anchor, back by seven, and the day holds together. For a full day you have to leave the bay, west towards the Estérel or east towards the Cap d'Antibes, and that choice is made on the morning itself, according to the wind. We build the outing in this order: the boat first, which follows from your party size and the distance, then the route, and the reservations ashore last. One point nobody anticipates, and it counts here more than elsewhere: around the islands you cannot drop anchor where you like. The posidonia meadows are protected, mooring is on buoys, some thirty of them, reserved for boats under twenty metres. Beyond that you anchor further out, and it is for us to settle before you arrive.
The options
The Lérins islands
A quarter of an hour under way and you are at anchor between Sainte-Marguerite and Saint-Honorat. Lunch at La Guérite under the pines, a swim through the afternoon, and for anyone who wants to go ashore, the abbey on Saint-Honorat, where twenty-one Cistercian monks work eight hectares of vines. It is the route that holds in any weather, because the islands close off the bay.
The Estérel and the Corniche d'Or
West, towards Théoule and the Estérel massif, where the rock turns red all at once. You sail at the foot of the calanques, anchor in a cove closed off by porphyry, and push on to the Île d'Or and its square tower, the one said to have given Hergé his Black Island. Allow a full day, and a calm westerly sea.
The Cap d'Antibes
East, past Golfe-Juan, to the bay of La Garoupe and the tip of the cape. This is the inhabited side of the outing: you run along the villas from the water, the only angle from which they are visible, and anchor in one of the coves at the point. The way back faces the bay of Cannes at sunset, which is the best hour to see it.
Half day or full day, the islands are done in half a day
April to October. In July and August, the island buoys are taken in the morning
Pricing
The boat sets the price before anything else, its size and its crew. Then comes fuel, which follows directly from the route, and that is where the bay of Cannes changes the sums: a day out to the Lérins burns a fraction of what the Estérel demands. Lunch on board, reservations ashore and water toys are settled separately. We give you the total before you leave, estimated fuel included.
Lürssen 279
85 m · 12 guests
€1,200,000 per week (VAT included)
SilverYachts 279
85 m · 12 guests
€1,050,000 per week (VAT included)
CRN Ancona 259
79 m · 12 guests
€1,080,000 per week (VAT included)
ISA 217
66 m · 12 guests
€660,000 per week (VAT included)
Alia 197
60 m · 12 guests
€546,000 per week (VAT included)
Amels 196
60 m · 12 guests
€522,000 per week (VAT included)
Alia 180
55 m · 12 guests
€432,000 per week (VAT included)
Admiral 180
55 m · 12 guests
€432,000 per week (VAT included)
Palmer Johnson 171
52 m · 12 guests
€348,000 per week (VAT included)
Sanlorenzo 154
47 m · 12 guests
€396,000 per week (VAT included)
Activities in Cannes
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