Sailing & Yachting

Västmanland County · Sweden

Västerås commands Västeråsfjärden, one of Mälaren's broadest sailing reaches, with club harbours strung along Öster Mälarstrand.

Blekinge County · Sweden

Karlskrona's naval sounds spread across some thirty islands at the open Baltic's edge — Blekinge's sheltered fairway ends at a World Heritage dockyard city.

Västra Götaland County · Sweden

From Uddevalla's marinas, Byfjorden runs under the high bridge out into Bohuslän's sheltered inner fairways.

Skåne County · Sweden

Landskrona faces the middle of Öresund, where steady sound winds and the short crossing to the island of Ven make easy day sails.

Södermanland County · Sweden

Nyköping's guest harbour lies a river's length from the Sörmland skerries, with sheltered anchorage bays up the coast toward Trosa.

Östergötland County · Sweden

Motala is the Göta canal's mid-passage port, where canal boats lock out to cross Vättern's open water — the route's gustiest leg.

Kalmar County · Sweden

Oskarshamn's harbour opens straight onto the Kalmarsund fairway, a sailing stage with Blå Jungfrun's dome to round offshore.

Southern Denmark · Denmark

Svendborg is a harbour town in central Denmark, on the island of Funen, the seat of Svendborg Municipality.

Region Zealand · Denmark

Køge is a historic harbour town in eastern Denmark, on the island of Zealand south of the capital.

Västra Götaland County · Sweden

Mariestad is a Vänern sailing town with a cathedral-spire landfall, its skerry channels buoyed out toward the lake's open middle.

Blekinge County · Sweden

Karlshamn gives Blekinge sailors a deep harbour with a small-boat heart, and the Hanö bight's open water starts at the piers.

Halland County · Sweden

Kungsbacka is a town in north-western Halland County, on the river Kungsbackaån just south of Göteborg near the Kattegat coast.