The unique sailing experience
The sailing locations and harbours.
One of the few safe routes into the Archipelago sea passes just west of the Utö lighthouse island and the lagoon to the north of the main island is a very good natural harbor. These are two of the main reasons why Utö has been one of the most important navigational landmarks in the Archipelago sea […]
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I arrived here on the way back from the Russian border and in pleasant, calm conditions it was a
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As well as the ridiculous number of spare ‘A’s, this is one of the two border points for heading
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This is a pleasant, sandy island with a twee village, nice walks and a proper guest harbour with reasonable
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This is another free nature reserve harbour with stern buoys. There’s not many spaces and you’ll have to squeeze
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Bockhamn is a wee, free, nature reserve quay, with stern buoys, in a beautifully sheltered round bay. The entrance
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There’s a few places to moor near the centre of Helsinki and, as you’d expect, a whole load of
Read moreHaving given up on Stora Brändö (No 98) I noticed 4 or 5 stern buoys off the west side
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This is a free, nature reserve harbour with a pontoon to tie to the outside of with the use
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This is a ridiculously sheltered harbour on an island owned by the City of Helsinki, up a stupidly narrow,
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This is a small guest harbour with stern buoy moorings which got very full when I arrived there, picking
Read moreIt was blowing a force 6 from the south west when I entered the perfectly sheltered bay at Moderrmagan
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Hanko is, in a sense, the exact opposite of Mariehamn. All the published sources go on about its great
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