As well as the ridiculous number of spare ‘A’s, this is one of the two border points for heading to and from Russia. It
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105 Rocks – Kaunissaari – guest harbour
This is a pleasant, sandy island with a twee village, nice walks and a proper guest harbour with reasonable berthing fees, showers, leccy etc.
105 Rocks – Lillfjärden – natural harbour
This is another free nature reserve harbour with stern buoys. There’s not many spaces and you’ll have to squeeze around the end of the
105 Rocks – Bockhamn – natural harbour
Bockhamn is a wee, free, nature reserve quay, with stern buoys, in a beautifully sheltered round bay. The entrance is another narrow one
105 Rocks – Helsingin Moottorivenekerho – marina
There’s a few places to moor near the centre of Helsinki and, as you’d expect, a whole load of marinas around town. The one
105 Rocks – Stora Brändö – natural harbour
This is a free, nature reserve harbour with a pontoon to tie to the outside of with the use of a stern buoy. Unfortunately
105 Rocks – Elisaari – guest harbour
This is a ridiculously sheltered harbour on an island owned by the City of Helsinki, up a stupidly narrow, reedy channel. It doesn’t look
105 Rocks – Jussarö – guest harbour
This is a small guest harbour with stern buoy moorings which got very full when I arrived there, picking my way in poor vis
105 Rocks – Modermagan – natural harbour
It was blowing a force 6 from the south west when I entered the perfectly sheltered bay at Moderrmagan but, from my rock amongst
105 Rocks – Hanko/Hangö – marina
Hanko is, in a sense, the exact opposite of Mariehamn. All the published sources go on about its great attractions as a town and
105 Rocks – Rosala – guest harbour
I was in Rosala a couple of times. Even in late June it was starting to get popular and by mid July it was
105 Rocks – Helsingholm – guest harbour
Helsingholm was very busy in July, but I managed to find a wee spot amongst the motorboats, inshore of most of the yachts, where
105 Rocks – Birsskär – guest harbour
This is a pleasant guest quay on a nature reserve island. It’s free, as far as I could tell (ed. note: actually there at
105 Rocks – Glosan – natural harbour
This was a genuinely off-piste rock on which I spent a very pleasant and quiet night, but not one that I’d recommend terribly much.