Possible Clues:

• Dock site
• Bay popular with the French close to port
• Dent in the coastline
• Bay or recess
• Bayou or fiord, e.g
• Not the sort of bay for 11 across
• Ocean's shoreline incursion
• Puget Sound, e.g.
• If 'e is, then bay
• Modish, you grant: by a bay