Chantier Naval Le Charles
Chantier Naval Le Charles is a family-run boatyard in Saint-Malo, Brittany, founded in 1975 by Michel Le Charlès and managed since 2008 by Laurent Le Charlès. The yard specialises in wooden hull repair for fishing and leisure vessels, and builds wooden boats to all types of plans in solid timber or plywood, including Doris and flat-bottomed plates, spars and replicas of traditional rigs. It also carries out interior fit-out, deck work in teak, caulking and hull repairs on wood, polyester, steel and aluminium boats, plus fabrication of live-fish tanks (viviers). The yard joined the Qualinautic association in 2012.
Chantier Naval Le Charles
A family boatyard in Saint-Malo, created in 1975 by Michel Le Charlès in a 75 m² workshop on quai Trichet and moved to the Zone Industrielle Sud in 1984. Laurent Le Charlès took over management of the family business in 2008, and the yard joined the Qualinautic association in 2012. Its core expertise is the repair of wooden hulls for both fishing and pleasure craft, alongside traditional wooden boatbuilding, joinery, caulking and fit-out work.
Services
- Repair and maintenance of wooden and polyester hulls, for fishing and leisure vessels
- Construction of wooden boats to all types of plans, in solid timber or plywood
- Building of Doris (flat-bottomed craft historically used for cod fishing off Newfoundland) and plates — one of the few yards still making Doris
- Small craft construction: plates and tenders in solid wood and plywood
- Replicas of old rigs / traditional sailing craft
- Spar making: masts, booms, yards, bowsprits
- Teak deck fabrication on wooden, polyester, steel and aluminium boats
- Interior fit-out of pleasure hulls (sailing yachts, motor launches) and fishing hulls in wood, polyester, steel or aluminium
- Marine joinery and caulking
- Live-tank (vivier) fabrication: immersed crab tanks and plasticised plywood tanks
- Vehicle body interiors (car and truck box interiors)
Fishing vessel work shown
- Deck refits and covered deck refits
- Wheelhouse / bridge work
- Polyester hull repair, hull works and keel works
- Interior fit-out
- Wooden and polyester viviers
Vessel Types
- Wooden fishing boats and polyester fishing vessels
- Sailing yachts and motor vessels, including classes shown in the yard's work: Bavaria, Belouga, Cormoran, Corsen, Dragon, Vela, Roubaieu, Goezeog, and a Muscadet renovation
- Traditional craft: Doris, plates, tenders and old-rig replicas
Location
- Chantier Naval Lecharles, 13 rue des Petits Champs, 35400 Saint-Malo, France (Zone Industrielle Sud)