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
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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.
105 Rocks – Björkö – natural harbour
This was an early introduction for me to tying up to Finnish rocks and, despite the apparently idyllic setting, it was a salutary lesson
105 Rocks – Västerön – natural harbour
This was a properly off-piste rock wot I found. It’d be crap in any sort of northerly, but was very pleasant in the south
105 Rocks – Jungfruskär – harbour
I was here a couple of times. By coincidence it was exactly a year apart, on 12th July 2012 and 12th July 2013. The
105 Rocks – Ängholm
This was my first genuinely off-piste rock and I was dead chuffed with myself for getting to tie to it. I nosed into one
105 Rocks – Möholm – natural harbour
This is one of the few natural harbours in Finland which is published in the pilots. Looking at the chart you’d not know there
105 Rocks – Kobba Klintar – harbour
This really tight wee harbour with a rocky entrance is a good jumping off point for Sweden. The potentially dodgy channel is marked, but
Crossing the ocean
As I prepared to leave Enklinge in the morning a Swedish bloke on the next boat asked nervously “Are you crossing the ocean tomorrow?”
Online route planning tools
Seems there are two types of sailors and boaters. One type likes to plan their trips well ahead and at least half of the