PETITE SAÔNE

Distance in km : 159 km

Number of locks : 19

Dimensions (L x W) : 40 m x 5,10 m

Draught : 1,80 m

Clearance : 3,50 m (5 m de Gray à Saint-Symphorien)

From Corre to Saint-Symphorien

The first link in the Saône-Rhône highway that links Burgundy to the Mediterranean, the narrow-section Saône, or "Petite Saône", is a charming and sinuous Vosges river. Pleasure boating has set up in the basins and dock hangars abandoned by traditional river traffic; and the Vosges Canal provides quite a lot of pleasure sailors from the north-east of Europe. (Note: the distance marking of the Petite Saône follows the river and does not take into account the detours that shortcut most of the meanders. Therefore, between Corre and Auxonne, the river travels 174 km, while the sailor only travels 148 km).