Boats sailing in front of Stadshuset or city hall, as seen from Söder Malarstrand in Södermalm. Photos by Robert Corkery.
As we headed out on our bicycles on Sunday afternoon, sailboats of all shapes and sizes were on Lake Mälaren. It was a beautiful autumn day, alternating between sunshine and clouds, and most of the boats were under full sail and tacking along quite nicely with spinnakers out, making for a picturesque scene.
Though the boating season is short, both the lake and archipelago offer such fantastic places to sail and I wanted nothing more than to be on a boat too. The first few years we were here, we sailed with friends quite a bit in the archipelago. Thanks to allemansrätten, everyone has the right to access and enjoy the land. What this means in terms of sailing is that you can pull your boat up to an island in the archipelago, tie it up and camp overnight as long as you are not in view of someone’s home. Allemansrätten also gives you the right to hike, cycle, ski and in other ways access the land as long as you do not disturb or destroy. This right is even in the constitution and that is somehow so very Swedish to me.
A higher up view of all the sailboats.
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