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Port of Arcachon Marina, West Bordeaux
The only deep water port in the Arcachon basin
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It is also the second largest marina on the Atlantic Coast with 2 600 moorings.
Since 2007, it has been home to a heritage quay reserved for the Basin’s traditional boats: pinasses (long narrow flat-bottomed boats) sailing barges, tall ships…, the entrance to the Port is marked by the Monument to those who have perished at sea, created by Claude Bouscau, a sculptor awarded the Grand Prix de Rome (1935). Depending on the angle from which it is viewed the sculpture takes the form of a cross or an anchor.
