Southern Sweden borders the Baltic Sea, but the long western coastline faces three distinct bodies of water – Oresund, the long strait between Sweden and Denmark, the Kattegat, more or less a large bay off the North Sea, and then the Skaggerak, which connects directly to the North Sea between Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.
With a goal of reaching the granite islands in the northern part of Sweden’s west coast, we kept Madrone’s bow pointed northward, taking advantage of wind to make miles when it blew from the right direction, and taking shelter in the lee of an island when the wind didn’t cooperate.
