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Sailing & Yachting

Sailing waters differ in shelter more than in beauty: protected skerries and sounds forgive a small crew, open coasts demand passage planning. Pick waters that match the boat and the crew, then a harbour town worth the evening.

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What makes waters good for a sailing holiday?

Shelter, harbour spacing, and honest weather. Skerried and sound-protected waters let a family crew hop short legs between guest harbours; exposed coasts are for crews that enjoy the passage itself. Provisioning ashore each evening is what turns a sail into a holiday.

  1. Västmanland County · Sweden

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

  2. 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.

  3. Västra Götaland County · Sweden

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Kalmar County · Sweden

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

  8. Southern Denmark · Denmark

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

  9. Region Zealand · Denmark

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

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. Halland County · Sweden

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

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