Cruising Association (CA) guide to the inland waterways of France, Belgium and Luxembourg (with 25% discount offer on first year's CA membership) is a 220-page A4 guide, edited by Gordon Knight and now in its 28th edition. Described as their 'Bible' by regular users and yacht skippers planning routes to and from the Mediterranean, it contains a wealth of information on cruising routes, cruising preparations, supplies, equipment, licences and documents, useful addresses, books and websites as well as listing around 250 mooring places throughout France and Belgium with comments upon facilities, depths, prices, closest shops and restaurants and nearby attractions.
Also included is a 25% discount offer on first year's Cruising Association membership.
The guide is regularly updated (usually annually) using reports submitted by members of the CA's European Inland Waterways Section (EIWS) and incorporates numerous hyperlinks to a wealth of additional information. Non-members benefit from numerous hyperlinks in green to additional information on the internet, while CA members (who can download all EIWS guides for free) also benefit from further hyperlinks to the CA's award-winning app CAptain's Mate to obtain the most up to date information on mooring locations and navigational restrictions as it is posted.
If you would like a hard copy as well, all the guides can also be purchased in full colour A4 printed format from the print-on-demand publishers Lulu.
For information on the additional benefits (in addition to free PDF downloads of all the EIWS guides) available to members, please see EIWS webpage.
CA members can download a PDF of the guide for free from the members' pages of the CA website.