This guide covers the Canal du Centre, which extends for 112 kms from the port of Digoin, where it links up with the Canal Latéral à la Loire, to join the River Sâone at Chalon-sur-Sâone. The canal passes through former industrial areas where coal mining and heavy industry once thrived and also more scenic stretches through the wine-producing areas of the Côte de Beaune and Côte Chalonnaise.
Details are provided on all the marinas, haltes and other mooring points (even picnic stops) along the waterways, together with information on facilities, shopping and nearby attractions. Each mooring is illustrated with a colour photo.
The guide is available for purchase in printed or digital format (PDF, which members can download for free from the members' EIWS web page). Reports on all the moorings are also included on CAptain's Mate, the CA's proprietary app, enabling them to be regularly updated by CA members posting online reports using the app.
This guide is one of a series of 17 full colour guides to moorings on the French inland waterways, produced and edited by Gordon Knight, based on a series of annual cruises along these beautiful inland waterways.