Naval Shipyard Carantec
Chantier Naval Carantec Roscoff is a French boat yard operating two sites in the Bay of Morlaix, Brittany: La Grande Grève in Carantec and the Bloscon marina in Roscoff. It carries out maintenance, refit and repair on sailing boats and motorboats, including careening and antifouling, painting and varnishing, polyester and osmosis work, marine carpentry, electrics and electronics, and all-brands engine work with new and used outboard and inboard engine sales. The yard also builds boats to order in wood and composite, including small Bay of Morlaix sailing dinghies such as the Caravelle and Corsaire, and offers dry winter storage and handling. Facilities include launching trolleys, a masting crane, a 50-tonne travel lift at Roscoff, wood/polyester and mechanical workshops, sheds and hardstanding of over 6,000 m2, and a clean careening area.
Naval Shipyard Carantec
Chantier Naval Carantec Roscoff is a boat yard working across two bases in the Bay of Morlaix, Brittany. Established at La Grande Grève in Carantec since the 1970s and also operating at the deep-water Bloscon marina in Roscoff, it combines marine carpentry, joinery, lamination, painting, mechanics and boat handling. The yard states it was one of the first in Finistère to install a clean careening area and handles waste, solvents, oil filters and batteries with care.
Services
- Careening, hull washing, aerogommage/sandblasting and antifouling application
- Hull and deck painting, interior painting, varnishing, stripping of interior and exterior woodwork
- Polyester and composite work: hull repairs, osmosis treatment, gelcoat and refit work
- Marine mechanics all brands: servicing, diagnostics, breakdown call-outs, winterising, engine removal and repowering (inboard Yanmar, Vétus, Volvo, Midif, Nanni; outboard Mercury, Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, Tohatsu, Mariner; electric Torqeedo and Kicker)
- Sale of new outboards from 2 to over 250 hp (Tohatsu stockist), inboard diesels (Yanmar, Sole, Volvo) and checked used engines
- Marine electrics and electronics: advice, supply and installation of GPS, VHF, sounders, radar, AIS, autopilots, windlasses, bow thrusters, solar panels (Garmin, Raymarine, Navico, Lowrance)
- New build in wood and polyester, including infusion moulding, plus one-off parts such as rudders, centreboards and skirts
- Winter storage ashore, cocooning in shrink film, mast stepping/unstepping, and boat delivery between yards or to moorings
Facilities
- Launching/haul-out trolleys at both sites; 50-tonne travel lift with masting crane and a 12-tonne hydraulic trolley at Roscoff
- Masting crane, Manitou, tractor
- Wood/polyester construction workshop and mechanical workshop
- Hangars and hardstanding for winter storage, over 6,000 m2 of storage capacity
- Clean careening area; moorings available at Carantec
Vessel Types
- Sailing boats (keelboats and dinghies) and motorboats
- Open hulls, RIBs, fishing and day boats
- Caravelle and Corsaire class dinghies, built annually at the yard
Location
- 52 route de la Grande Grève, 29660 Carantec — tel. 02 98 67 03 61
- Port de plaisance du Bloscon, 29680 Roscoff — tel. 06 09 74 57 40
- Winter: Mon–Fri 8:30–12:00 / 13:30–17:30, Saturday by appointment; Summer: Tue–Sat 8:30–12:00 / 13:30–17:30, Monday by appointment