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The "Calangues" is the name of a mountain-area and from the seaside as well for a number of bays, that are really worth to see, when you sail east of Marseille at the Cote Provence, the western part of the southern french coast, a tourist usually means, when he speaks about the "Cote d´Azur" . "Calanques" comes from "cala", a steep slope.

In millions of years, the rivers cut deep beds into the chalk, and after the iceage-periods theese beds were flooded by the sea and created very impressing bays with some hundred meter high natural sculptures!

The mountains of the Calanques create anther phenomenon, which is advantageous for yachting and sailing and any other kind of watersports: the temperature is regulated by the sea, the conservation and reflection of the mountains and stones and it prevents from the strong and cold northerly wind feared as Mistral

By that reason, the weather between Marseille and Cassis and as well easterly until St.Tropez is usually better than further west, where the Mistral comes from the north blowing from the Rhone delta and easterly, where it gets his ways between the sea alps and increases speed.

Les Calanques - sailing your Charteryacht to some of the most impressing bays on the Cote d´Azur	you don´t speak english? Get your language here
The "Calangues" is the name of a mountain-area and from the seaside as well for a number of bays, that are really worth to see, when you sail east of Marseille at the Cote Provence, the western part of the southern french coast, a tourist usually means, when he speaks about the "Cote d´Azur" . "Calanques" comes from "cala", a steep slope. In millions of years, the rivers cut deep beds into the chalk, and after the iceage-periods theese beds were flooded by the sea and created very impressing bays with some hundred meter high natural sculptures! The mountains of the Calanques create anther phenomenon, which is advantageous for yachting and sailing and any other kind of watersports: the temperature is regulated by the sea, the conservation and reflection of the mountains and stones and it prevents from the strong and cold northerly wind feared as Mistral By that reason, the weather between Marseille and Cassis and as well easterly until St.Tropez is usually better than further west, where the Mistral comes from the north blowing from the Rhone delta and easterly, where it gets his ways between the sea alps and increases speed.
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Here some impressions for yachtcaptains sailing from Cassis to the west. The first and most frequented bay is the Calanque de Port-Miou, which has an infrastructure for boat-mooring, and as we can imagine, in summertime it must be pretty full here. The other Calanques are not accessible by law in summertime, only by boat, but nearly all year around, the small shuttle boats from Cassis make round-trips, and in springtime and autumn, many people stay in one of the bays, some take a sunbath, others start climbing, because the mountains are really high (some have more than 100m!) steep! ..........

some bays are really unspoiled...
view from the bay´s inside to the sea
in the distance one can see the Ile de Riou
After a wonderful day on your sailingyacht in the bays de Calanques, you can sail to Cassis or Marseille

Les Calanques - sailing your Charteryacht to some of the most impressing bays on the Cote d´Azur