PK 5.6    Footbridge (Soupirs) On the edge of the village is an excellent service station and convenience store. Parcourez les différentes régions traversées par le Canal du Midi et le Canal Latéral à la Garonne. A short branch, the descente dans l’Hérault maritime, leads from the round lock at Agde to the river, thus giving alternative access to the Mediterranean. There is a short stretch of quayside downstream (south) of the road bridge. PK 0.2     Railway bridge PK 222.0    Port Cassafières basin r/b, Le Boat hire base, 70 berths, night €20 (no mooring the week-end), diesel, water, electricity, showers, pump-out, restaurant, Redoute-Plage 1800m. Notes on the three locks in Toulouse: Bayard (6m+) and Minimes (4m+) have been converted from double locks and are deep. Big hire boat base with craned lift-out, possibly fuel (?). PK 168.3    La Robine basin l/b, bridge (Truilhas), 45 berths, night €16.85, diesel, water, slipway, wifi. Interesting and peaceful spot to stay for a day or so, by the étang but also quite near the big beaches to the south at Marseillan-plage. Excellent grassy bank moorings under the trees, pretty bridge and lovely village nearby. Saint-Jory Similar to the lock at Ayguesvives, but not as tricky or deep. Going into the first (lowest) chamber the configuration means that the crew won’t be able to walk in, bow line already in hand. Bègles It overlooks the Étang de Montady, once a swamp but drained in 1247, with spectacular radial fields and ditches. If at the front the bow may be worryingly close to the rushing water, but a secure line taken to the upper bollard, top or foot of the steps will keep the boat safe. This manned lock is straight-sided and deep (4m+).Vertical poles to moor to and slide up (or down). PK 28.1    Deep lock (Ayguesvives), footbridge. PK 239.8    Quays (Les Onglous). L’application s’adresse à toutes les pratiques d’itinérance douce : les cyclotouristes à vélo, les plaisanciers en bateau et les promeneurs à pieds. Villefranche-de-Lauragais, Gers Fontet Crew must be let off in advance of the lock in order to press the appropriate button actually to prepare and open the lock-gates before a boat can enter. PK 50.0    Port Lauragais marina adjacent to motorway services and Pierre Paul Riquet visitor centre, 32 berths, night €12.50, water, electricity, slipway, restaurant. Nos cartes touristiques "Bordeaux-Toulouse à vélo" et "Toulouse-Sète à vélo" sont pratiques, précises et esthétiques. PK 98.5    Lock (Herminis), bridge. Sous l’effet magique de ce canal du Languedoc-Roussillon dans laquelle se mirent les platanes centenaires. A full service port de plaisance, including fuel. PK 207.0    New cut r/b to water slope (disused) PK 11.4    Footbridge (Ramonville) PK 38.5    Aqueduct (Gardouch) PK 172.6    Argeliers bridge (Pont Vieux), quay u/s l/b, village 700m l/b, Good, popular, bankside moorings with a pleasant small village nearby, PK 171.4    Bridge (Pont de la Province) Draught – The maximum authorised draught is 1.50m. Mais voilà la liste des écluses du Canal du Midi. The ascents and descents are according to a timetable – up 10:00-11:45 and 16:00-18:45, down 8:00-9:30 and 13:30-15:30. In between the two there is an écluse – the bridge headroom here (and at the écluse downstream ‘Saint-Jean’) is at the 3.30m canal minimum. The Saint-Sauveur harbour, is run by friendly municipal staff. Le canal du midi qui relie Toulouse à Sète, serpente à travers le vignoble jusqu’au centre de la ville de Carcassonne. Coming up from the port de l’Embouchure (junction with the Canal de Garonne) you may need to tie up at the downstream wooden pontoon and go and announce your presence. Fuel from the pontoon outside the passerelle. Cathare Marine harbour off the canal (behind a sliding passerelle, so very secure), bankside moorings with water and electricity. PK 198.8    Malpas tunnel (length 161m), Oppidum d’Ensérune ruins 1500m l/b. Le canal du Midi est un canal de navigation français à bief de partage qui relie Toulouse à la mer Méditerranée depuis le xviie siècle. Good quaysides immediately outside a huge wine ‘cave’. Informations. Suggested quiet mooring, but looks narrow and depth uncertain. Descente dans l’Hérault La-Ville-Dieu-du-Temple PK 38.9    Lock (Gardouch), bridge PK 121.0    Bridge (Millepetit) Golfech Closer to Homps, what was obviously intended to be a port de plaisance. La météo du Canal du Midi PK 70.6    Lock (Guerre), bridge, Saint-Martin-Lalande 1000m l/b PK 216.5    Bridge (Caylus) Good town with all facilities. Bon voyage sur le canal du Midi ! Découvrez le Canal des Deux Mers à vélo, itinéraire cyclable qui relie la Méditerranée à l'Atlantique. There are plenty of bank-side moorings either side of the bridge, as well as a hire boat base. PK 28.0    New road bridge (D813) PK 99.9    Lock (Ladouce) Small shop/boulangerie, restaurants, superb Mairie overlooking the canal. Le Canal du Midi et la Voie Verte . PK 131.6    Double staircase lock (Saint-Martin), bridge PK 145.8    Bridge Ramonville-Saint-Agne PK 73.6    Lock (Tréboul), bridge PK 213.8    Lock (Villeneuve), bridge, Villeneuve-lès-Béziers r/b, quays for 5 boats, night €6, water, showers at camp site. A major hire boat base with facilities potentially available for outside use – repairs, crane, etc. There is now practically nothing to show of the old canal, but some masonry of the at least one of the écluses survives. Later on, soldiers captured from the Franco-Prussian war were used to dig the revised ‘through’ route, in particular the extremely deep cutting immediately above the PdP. Subdivision Languedoc-Est: Bazas Through the right-hand bridge is the short Canal de Brienne which takes water from the Garonne behind the Bazacle weir. PK 165.9    Le Somail bridge (Pont Vieux), Nicols hire base, quays d/s for 20 boats, water, village l/b. The ‘Grand Bassin’ is a 5ha reservoir feeding the locks. It became a stronghold of the Cathar sect, forcibly surpressed in 1209 when the population (15 000–20 000) was massacred in its entirety by Catholic forces. There are quayside moorings here, but it is bounded by busy roads. Coming down (towards Toulouse) you will need long ropes if you use the bollards, or you will need to find the inset bollards, but their position is not obvious. The adjacent A61 autoroute is an inescapable factor for the next 35km. Science areas. Hire boat base with showers and moorings available to plaisanciers. PK 6.0    Railway bridge Both have water and electricity; the capitainerie (also the local VNF office) is by the port. Le port se situe en face de la gare SNCF et du square André-Chenier. PK 140.5    Bridge (Pont Neuf), D11 However, in the late 1970s the canal was modernised (like the Canal de Garonne in the early 1970s) to bring it up to the standard of the main canal network in France, navigable by the 38.50m long péniche, loading 250 tonnes. PK 80.8    Bram bridge, basin and quays d/s r/b, Castel Nautique hire base, 40 berths, diesel (on request), water €5, electricity €5, shower, crane, slipway, repairs, restaurant. PK 168.8    Railway bridge, end of one-way section traffic PK 225.2    Libron crossing, narrow passage, bridge Canal du Midi ~ Carcassonne ~ Robine Canal ~ Narbonne. The best place is outside the friendly and very well run camp-site ‘les Berges du Canal‘ (small restaurant, bar, showers, etc), which has electricity as well as water available. Canal du Midi cruise is best if you want to explore the French countryside. Avignonet-Lauragais They are for sale! The bridge has the reputation of being the lowest on the canal; it isn’t, but it is the most awkward because of its shape (the two bridges at Saint-Jean and Carcassonne locks, PK 108 and PK 105, are the lowest). History – France’s most famous canal was born, like many great projects, from a meeting of men with uniquely converging motivations and capabilities. PK 147.1    Double staircase lock (Ognon), aqueduct d/s It is to this point that Riquet succeeded in bringing a more-than-adequate supply of water by an ingenious feeder system, the main components of which are the Saint-Ferréol reservoir, still efficient after more than three centuries of operation, the Rigole de la Montagne, 24km long, and the Rigole de la Plaine, 35km long. PK 157.6    Paraza bridge, quay u/s l/b, water, village l/b Excellent possible bank-side mooring (check depths). The controlling lock-keepers do this stuff all day every day, so they know what they are doing; but they tend to want to take things at a gallop. Cadillac Bienvenue sur le réseau fluvial du Sud-Ouest ! Vauban made a number of improvements in the 1690s, but was understandably impressed by the boldness of the project completed by Riquet and his engineers. Died, ruined after investing his entire fortune in the centre line the. 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