Very spectacular sailing the whole day! I used Navionics auto-routing feature to find me the best route to Oxelösund, and I could not have done a better job myself.

On the chart it looked like very difficult navigation, but with the GPS and the electronic charts it was quite easy most of the time.

Through the maze of islands, skerries and rocks above and under the water, there are buoyed channels to follow, often through very narrow straits, between some islands they can be just around 10 meters wide. I suppose these fairways are based on knowledge inherited from many generations, maybe from heathen time.

And best of all, with the southerly wind that lasted all day, I could go the whole distance, a bit more than 47 miles, without starting the engine once. Today I used only the genoa since I figured it would be a lot of jibing going slalom between the buoys, and it worked very well. From about noon the wind was quite strong, above 20 knots and for long periods I was making over six knots, even seven some brief moments.

I passed through three archipelagos - Tjust, Gryt and St Anna. All of great natural beauty. I dare to say that the cruising in Scandinavia is of world class - that is when the weather is good, which have been the case almost the whole trip. Unfortunately the summers here are a lottery.

I arrived in Oxelösund just in time to see the last of the game where Sweden won 1-0 towards Slovakia. A good finish of a very nice day, so good I could ignore the miserable state of the pontoons in the marina. They are in dire need of some TLC.