A Circuit of Southern Sweden

Following two summers of Covid restrictions, at last we have plans to spend the whole season exploring the Baltic Sea ...

Ystad is a regular stopover for us when traveling to and from Sweden. It is of course famous as the ...

….or ‘Still Baltic in the Baltic’ Here we are in Kalmar, which is a really cool town with a great ...

Neither of us has ever had a GPS chart plotter before, except an iPad. And we are both such tech ...

Northwards, along the coast towards our June destination in Stockholm. The coastline north of Kalmar is quite literally awash with ...

Lake Mälaren was a great decision. The long fjord to the canal entrance is truly lovely. At the southerly end ...

Destination Stockholm, and a new crew. But first we had to exit the lock keeping the water level stable in ...

How generous to be called ‘new crew’; I’d say ‘new liability’ as the fella with the big grin limped on ...

We’ve just come from a wonderful harbour surrounded by little islands in Finnhamn which is known as Paradiset. It is ...

We left the boat swinging on a mooring overlooked by the Royal Swedish Sailing Club Grand Hotel in Saltsjöbaden, south ...

25th July saw us back on board Melodrama, with our great friend and crew member Brendan. Brendan has cruised most ...

One morning, we woke up, having planned our coming week travelling south along the Swedish coast, back the way we ...

The route out of Lake Vanern into the Skagerrak at Göteborg is through the Trollhätte Canal. Unlike the delightful old ...

It was different sailing south from Göteborg towards Copenhagen. The water is again saline, there is a bit of tide ...

It’s been a wonderful summer and the last week of sailing had everything. A fabulous wind sped us homeward in ...