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Welcome to Sail in Finland!

Finland offers a unique sailing experience and here you can learn more about it. Whether you want to sail, powerboat or canoe, Sail in Finland! will try to help you make your trip to the Finnish waters the best sailing experience you can have. If you have any questions, just click on the banner at the top of the page to submit your question. Sail in Finland! will try to answer the questions as soon as possible!

Sail in Finland covers all aspects of sailing and boating in Finland but with a special emphasis on sailing in the Baltic coastal waters and in particular in the Archipelago sea. Most general information is however applicable in all parts of the county and to power boaters as well.

You can follow Sail in Finland in many ways. The primary site will be this blog, sifdev2.demo.site, where all the more in-depth articles will be published. Sail in Finland is also on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. If you want to, you can use Facebook as your “Sail in Finland” bookmark. To do that, just “Like” Sail in Finland on Facebook in the right hand column of the site! New articles and also some news-like information will be posted on Facebook. On Facebook, Sail in Finland typically posts no more than once per day, though there might be some exceptions. New information will also be announced on Twitter. In addition, Sail in Finland shares (retweets) news-like and other information of immediate interest on Twitter. The number of daily tweets and retweets varies significantly.  To “follow” Sail in Finland in Twitter, see the column to the right. Video material created by Sail in Finland is posted on Facebook and on Youtube.

The site is maintained by marine journalist and photographer Håkan Mitts. Håkan has been boating in the Finnish archipelago for all his life, the last 30 years skippering his own sailing boat. All material provided on this site is Copyright by Håkan Mitts/Sail in Finland unless an other author for the information is specifically specified. If you want to reuse any of the material, I’m happy to discuss that further. Send a request using the site contact form.

If you are a publisher and like what you see here, note that Håkan is also available for freelancing jobs. If a great story on sailing or boating in Finland is what you need for your publication make your inquiry using the site contact form.