another season in the Baltic
How generous to be called ‘new crew’; I’d say ‘new liability’ as the fella with the big grin limped on with his walking stick. The sun was shining and we started with a shore trip to the Vasa Museum – wow! After nearly 400 years at the bottom of Stockholm harbour, they refloated this 200 […]
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Destination Stockholm, and a new crew. But first we had to exit the lock keeping the water level stable in Lake Mälaren. Not being sure of timings for little yachts to go through, we anchored in a stunningly beautiful bay nearby, directly opposite Drottningham Slott, home of the King and Queen of Sweden. The royal […]
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Lake Mälaren was a great decision. The long fjord to the canal entrance is truly lovely. At the southerly end is the little town of Trosa, quite a shallow harbour, with a canal that runs upriver to the town centre. It was such a lovely day that we inflated the dinghy and set off under […]
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Northwards, along the coast towards our June destination in Stockholm. The coastline north of Kalmar is quite literally awash with islands and rocks, and navigation is something else! There are charted routes ‘guaranteed’ to be 3-5 metres which weave between and around the obstacles, and are marked with red and green spar buoys to indicate […]
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