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To the Baltic

et little marina in Langeline next to the Little Mermaid with good showers
and bicycle rental outside the marina gate. Copenhagen was also the city
for the first of our guests we had invited to join us on what we expected
to be an easy sailing holiday. After our final few days in Denmark we set
off to Sweden only to be storm bound in Skanor for 4 days much to the
frustration of our new crew.
We then had a very relaxed, mostly warm and sunny July and August sail-
ing up the East coast of Sweden and after Kalmar, the amazing archipela-

go up to Stockholm. There is a sense of not doing proper sailing in Swe-
den as the channels are narrow and not suitable for setting the sails on a
course for hours a at a time. Having said that you could come out of the
archipelago and sail in the open sea of the Baltic but that would be miss-
ing hundreds of amazing anchorages and thousands of beautiful rocky
islands. We stayed inside the archipelago and had a few experiences of
“touching the stones” as the Swedes call it, we call it hitting the rocks.
Nothing serious probably thanks to the swing keel but the channels do
require pretty much full-time helming with a chart plotter. Stockholm and
in particular our many nights in the Vashamnen marina next to the Vasa

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