France:Le Treport
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Showers were being worked on in August 2006
General
A useful port of call on the Channel coast between Dieppe and Calais. A small fishing port with an illuminated calvery at the entrance.
The traditional fishermans' borough, with its small, high slate-roofed houses with bow windows, it is called "quartier des cordiers". A cordier is usualy a rope-maker (from corde, rope), but the cordiers cordants in Le Tréport were the poorest fishermen, who could not afford fishing nets and used long ropes bristled with hooks.
Until the 1960s, the inhabitants of those houses rented them to tourists from Paris in the summer time and moved down into the basement.
Like many other French fishing ports, Le Tréport has kept seamen's calvaries, which were traditionally saluted by the seamen when they left the port. The 3.63-m high Stone Cross (Croix de Pierre) was erected in 1618 during an epidemic of black plague. It was damaged in 1840 by a big carriage and revamped by King Louis-Philippe, who moved it to a less dangerous place. The cross is decorated with fleurs-de-lis and Louis XIII's monogram based on letter L. After a tragic wreckage of 12 November 1856, the seamen erected on 20 September 1860 a wooden calvary called Terraces' Calvary (Calvaire des Terrasses); it was replaced by a new calvary on 28 August 1887, which was taken down and hidden during the German occupation and reestablished in 1948. The calvary is floodlit every evening and still used by seamen as a marker. The Seamen's Calvary (Calvaire des Marins), made by Franconville, ironsmith in Eu, in 1846, was then considered as one of the most beautiful on the French coasts.
Marinas and Anchorages
Port Le Treport
Capitainerie 2 Quai de la Republique Le Treport 76470 Phone: 02 35 50 63 06 Fax: 02 35 50 63 06
Facilities
- Showers
- 24 Hour Security
- Electricity (10 A)
- Water on the pontoons
- Food and Bar
- Chandlery
- Toilets
- Provisions Nearby
- Crane
- Boat hoist
- Engine Repairs
- Electronics dealer
- Sailmaker
- 120 berths
Costs (2006)
Annual Cost: EURO 1510.00 per metre Maximum Length: 26 m Overnight Cost: EURO 19.00
Access
Tidal Access: HW+-4
Sailing Clubs
Yachting Club du Treport
Michel Gery (Président), BP 50, Le Tréport Tel:+33 06.13.57.90.83
