Guide to Canal de l’Aisne à la Marne

This guide covers the Canal de l’Aisne à la Marne, which runs for 58 kms from its junction with the Canal Latéral à l’Aisne at the village of Berry-au-Bac southwards to Condé-sur-Marne, where it joins the Canal Latéral à la Marne. Completed in 1866, the canal heads south for 46 kms through 16 locks and the major city of Reims before arriving at the 2,302m long Billy Tunnel. The tunnel, which is transited under one’s own power, takes around 45 mins at the recommended 3-4kms/hr. From there the canal winds through attractive countryside for a further nine kms and eight locks down to Condé-sur-Marne. Minimum depth is 1.8m and air draft 3.7m.

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.

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.

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. CA members (who can download the digital version for free - you'll need to be logged in to see the free download link in Buying Options below ) 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.

To obtain full benefit from these hyperlinks, all the EIWS guides can be purchased in digital versions as downloadable PDFs from the CA's digital store Shopify. Non-members can thus benefit from numerous hyperlinks in green to additional information on the internet, while CA members can also use hyperlinks in blue to the latest updates on CAptain's Mate.

For those who prefer a hard copy, 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 guides) available to members of European Inland Waterways Section (EIWS), please see EIWS web page.