Shipyard/Sailmaker/Rigging/Winterizing
Extrado Yachting is a boat yard and sail loft based at Port-La-Forêt marina in La Forêt-Fouesnant, southern Finistère, Brittany. The company handles maintenance, repair, refit, rigging, upholstery and winter storage for sailing yachts, motor boats, dinghies and fishing boats, and produces new cruising and racing sails as the Delta Voiles agent for Brittany, along with covers, biminis, sprayhoods and interior trim. It is also an approved Plastimo service station for inflatable lifejackets and arranges liferaft servicing. Extrado additionally runs a charter fleet of sailing yachts from 7 to 14 metres for cruising in South Brittany.
Extrado Yachting
Extrado Yachting is a boat yard, sail loft and upholstery workshop at Port-La-Forêt in southern Finistère, Brittany, offering a single point of contact for owners from keel to rig. Work covers afloat and ashore maintenance, refit and repair, sailmaking and canvas work, rigging and deck hardware, plus safety equipment servicing. The company also operates a sailing yacht charter base at the same marina. Extrado states it was the first and only private company at Port La Forêt to build its own careening area that recovers and filters pollutants, and is Vague Bleue (Blue Wave) certified.
Services
- Maintenance and repair of leisure and fishing boats, afloat or ashore; annual maintenance contracts
- Careening, antifouling, hull stripping and treatment, keel blasting and aerogommage, polish, wax, varnish and paint
- GRP/polyester hull and deck repair, gelcoat work, non-slip and teak deck laying
- Marine electrics, electronics and mechanics; pumps, heating, lights; propeller removal, blade straightening and polishing
- Standing and running rigging: mast tuning, complete rig replacement, shrouds, furlers for genoa and mainsail, removable stays, bowsprits, top-down furlers, splicing and swaging, textile rigging
- Deck hardware supply and fitting: winches, clutches, tracks, portlights, pushpits, stanchions, arches; deck layout plans
- Sailmaking and repair as Delta Voiles Bretagne agent — new cruising and racing sails, traditional and classic rig sails, storm jib for furlers, code D, asymmetric spinnakers on furlers
- Sail, cover and upholstery cleaning and washing; sail servicing and repair
- Upholstery and canvas: sprayhoods, biminis, cockpit and wheel covers, aft closures, winter covers, lazybags/easybags, cushions, mattresses, curtains, interior linings and trim, spinnaker bags and deck bags
- Approved Plastimo revision station for inflatable lifejackets (all brands accepted); liferaft and extinguisher servicing arranged
- Sailing yacht charter, weekend to weekly, and brokerage of used boats
Facilities
- Enclosed hardstanding with environmentally compliant clean careening area and buried treatment unit
- Travel lift and haul-out, covered workshop space, blasting/aerogommage cabin
- Sail loft with floor and workshop; cradle hire and manufacture
- Berths available afloat and charter pontoon
Vessel Types
- Sailing yachts (cruising and racing, including Class 40)
- Motor launches, RIBs and dinghies
- Fishing boats and classic/traditional rigged craft
Location
- Port-La-Forêt marina, 29940 La Forêt-Fouesnant, Finistère, South Brittany, France