Sailing across Sweden

Mark Blackburn has sailed all his life. He completed an eastbound Atlantic crossing on Daq Attack in 2004 and has sailed the Med, North Sea, English Channel and the Baltic.

s veterans of UK and French inland waterways we thought we knew it all: we were wrong. Dad’s Hallberg Rassy 352, , surged about in the fierce surface currents of the first Göta Canal lock, bouncing off the other boats. Our first lock keeper after leaving Mem instructed us on the Swedish lock tying up method but we didn’t listen. By the third lock we were paying attention. On each up lock we now tied a short stern line and secured it