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Is it possible to circumnavigate these islands ?
Can you get to and from Uddevalla from the south and the South East ?

Is it an attractive cruising area ?
What might the weather be like in July?

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which are here
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I would also be interested in recommendations for sailing directions, pilots, any other sources of information, etc

Thanks
 
you can sail round both Tjorn & Orust, and there is a race around each Orust is 15 +hours Tjorn is 10 hrs 3 Sat August like our RTIR but with a very narrow passage

I do not know the route in land to Uddevalla, but there is a Harbour.


Busy in the school holidays, end June to 3rd week August, but fun and weather good in June / July.
 
The area's really well covered by the Tsunami electronic charts.

You can sail all the way to Uddevalla, though it looks as if the port's a bit industrial; yacht haven shown about 1M SSW at Rodon/Gustavberg.

As for circumnavigating the Islands identified, both can be done though seeing the earlier post, I'd avoid the 3rd weekend in August - there are some extesive sections of narrow (1-2 cables) channels to negotiate, the last thing you need is to meet 1500 WAFI's screaming 'water!' whilst you're pootling along.
 
Indeed you can. You just get the Swedish sport-charts and follow the black lines. It's more fun not to follow the lines, but you have to look out for the occasional rock. You can sail in almost sheltered water from Gothenburg to Stromstad inside all the islands, with lots of small harbours and anchorages amond the rocks. The main channel gets quite busy in the season and is known as the E6 (also the motorway along the coast).
 
I am very interested in this post as I might suggest this to the skipper for next year sail (the boat is overwintering in Denmark). I have just come back from sailing in Germany and Denmark and have a question: why have the cardinals and red and green buoys (I think it is the entire buoyage system) got brushes as topmarks. Sorry to change the subject but I could not figure out how to post a new thread?? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
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so I guess you can sail there!

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It ain't necessarily so. You would find it difficult to sail your new Bavaria from the factory, I think.
 
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I am very interested in this post as I might suggest this to the skipper for next year sail (the boat is overwintering in Denmark). I have just come back from sailing in Germany and Denmark and have a question: why have the cardinals and red and green buoys (I think it is the entire buoyage system) got brushes as topmarks. Sorry to change the subject but I could not figure out how to post a new thread?? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

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As far as I remember the buoys with brushes are mainly in Denmark. They tend to be very spindly and in some channels there are lots of them. I suspect the brushes are cheap, lightweight, and hard to damage. In the Swedish Archipelago, many of the marks are lights or beacons on rocks, and in the north, some rather interesting black & white squares painted anamorphically on the rocks. It is a very beautiful area and well worth a visit even though the beer's not up to much. I don't have any photos to hand as they are all slides I'm afraid, and I haven't scanned them yet - I'm only up to 1974.
 
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The Vast Kusten is brilliant- we have family and friends in Sweden and have sailed there for several seasons- June- August ok, quieter after Midsommer's Dag, quieter still after 01/08/ when the SWe schools go back.

Get a copy of "Batturist"- as good as the French "Block" guide in many ways. Swedish charts are the best. The archiepelgo can be crowded in high season, so sail outside and duck in to moor for night.
Swedish freedom to roam law means anywhere out of sight or hearing of a house or cottage you can moor or walk. Take a tender & 2 lump hammers and 6 to 12 of 2/3 diff. types of rock pins to anchor off using shore lines(they go splash /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)
Enjoy, a great cruising ground! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Very nice all the way up the west coast from Gothenburg.

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Towards the top left corner of your map is a little gem called Smögen, an old traditional fishing port. Marina very busy in summer though. Nice boardwalk with shops for SWMBO and and restaurant bars with a view over the harbour and islands to rest the skipper afterwards /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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There is an online directory of all guestharbors in Sweden at
http://www.svenskagasthamnar.se/ENGindex.asp

The Mariestad beer is indeed the best. A word of warning though. The marine police do both speed checks and randomly stop boats for alco tests. So do not drink while sailing there.

Weather can be very nice indeed in July. I spent a week south of Smögen first week in July and it was 31 degrees every day with clear blue skies and a light breeze!
 
It is a marvellous cruising area surpassed only by the East Coast. It does get very busy in the guest harbours in July, particularly the last week. There is a big yacht race round Tjorn - 1000+ boats which passes under two bridges.If you go west past Henan at N end of Orust you will have an interesting and complicated route, particularly Strommarna. In 1981 I went through Strommarna in a hired boat during my first day in Swedish waters and I've never looked back.
 
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A word of warning though. The marine police do both speed checks and randomly stop boats for alco tests. So do not drink while sailing there.



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No, not randomly. They do speed tests and stop boats for speeding or things like broken nav lights and then they do alc tests, but currently they are not allowed to stop boats randomly. However there are some law changes in progress which may lead to that. Also, of this year, even the Coast Guard can do alc tests.
 
Depends on the area, and the kind of wood and building technique. There are lots of oak fishing boats and old barges in the water (or ice) all year round. More lightly built leasure boats can be left in in places where the ice does not move or where there are devices to keep the place ice free. Clinker built boats are not really capable to survive in the ice so normally are lifted.
 
Thank you all for the information

The West Coast (of Sweden) certainly looks promising for a cruise, I had been thinking of Western Norway, Stavanger to Bergen with a few fjords in between. However the precipitation figures for W.Norway made me look further east.

It appears Lysekil is a port of entry so that would make a good starting point.

To get down to brass tacks, and after the discussion of the best beer, what does a beer cost in Sweden, is it very expensive ?

How much do you pay for the standard sort of meal in a pub and what of marina fees?

Thanks again
 
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