Rivers Saône & Doubs

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Rivers Saône & Doubs boat rentals

Bases at Scey-sur-Saone and St Leger-sur-Dheune 

The Saône is one of France's most attractive rivers, with few locks, rural scenery, and generously proportioned farmhouses, their window boxes gay with flowers.
On the forest floor too, the earth brings forth a generous offering of mushrooms.
The well-preserved villages in the Mâconnais and the Dôle region are a constant delight.
Climbing north on the Canal des Vosges through the forests of the Vosges you glide through an amphitheatre of ash, silver birch and other trees.
The towns of Fontenoy-le-Château and Epinal reveal their many charms.

From Dôle to Besançon the Canal du Rhone au Rhin follows the course of the River Doubs past rocky cliffs and between wooded slopes.
To arrive in Besançon is truly dramatic. A tunnel 394m long allows you to pass right underneath the great fortress built by Vauban in the 17th century and to make a complete circuit of the city by water.

One-week cruises from Scey-sur-Saone

  • Scey, Gray, Pontailler, Auxonne, Scey
    202 km; 26 locks; 5hr cruising per day
  • Scey, Port sur Saone, Corre, Fontenoy, Scey
    138 km; 36 locks ; 4hr30 cruising per day

10 or 11-day cruises

  • Scey, Gray, Auxonne, Dole, Scey
    266 km; 46 locks; 5hr cruising per day

Two-week cruises

  • Scey, Gray, Seurre, Tournus, Louhans, Scey
    506 km; 42 locks; 5hr15 cruising per day
  • Scey, Gray, Dole, Besançon, Scey
    368 km; 86 locks; 5hr30 cruising per day
  • Scey, Gray, Auxonne, Dole, Besançon,Beaume les Dames, L'Isle sur le Doubs, Deluz ONE WAY
    313 km; 93 locks ; 3hr30 cruising per day

One-week cruises from St Leger-sur-Dheune

  • St Leger, Chagny, Chalon, Tournus, Pont de Vaux, St Leger
    168 km; 36 locks; 5hr cruising per day

10 or 11-day cruises from St Leger-sur-Dheune

  • St Leger, Chagny, Verdun sur le Doubs, St Jean de Losne, St Leger
    190 km; 36 locks; 5hr cruising per day

Two-week cruises from St Leger-sur-Dheune

  • St Leger, Chagny, Chalon sur Saone, Seurre, Dole, Besancon, St Leger
    334 km; 84 locks; 5 hr cruising per day

Waterways on this route

The Centre Canal, The Doubs, The Rhone-Rhine Canal, The Saône,

Locaboat rental boats for Rivers Saône & Doubs

Locaboat have 14 self-drive boats available in this region

P1120R self-drive

P1120R

6 guests

P1106 FB self-drive

P1106 FB

7 guests

Europa 400

4 guests

Europa 600

6 guests

P1020 FB self-drive

P1020 FB

5 guests

P1107W self-drive

P1107W

7 guests

P1165 FB self-drive

P1165 FB

7 guests

P1180 FB self-drive

P1180 FB

7 guests

P1260R self-drive

P1260R

10 guests

P1400 FB

10 guests

P1500 FB

12 guests

P935W self-drive

P935W

5 guests

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