Gothenburg - 57° 42' 43" N 11° 57' 50" E
Woo hoo, we sailed to Sweden! Post-passage mayhem in the cockpit, but we are here! Motoring past the island of Rörö, north of Göteborg Our sail across the Skagerrak was superb! The seas were flat and the wind had us zipping along at about 7kn, until it didn't. We popped the engine on a couple of times just to keep us moving and dropped the sails as we approached the series of small rocky islands that guard the entrance to Göta River, on which Gothenburg* sits. We anchored amongst these small islands for a few hours but the wind kept rising and the anchorage was not as protected as we had hoped so we headed up the river to the guest marina in the heart of Gothenburg. ... and the first use of our Swedish courtesy flag. Travelling from the harbour entrance to where we would eventually tie up took several hours. We passed by miles of industrial docks, filled with container yards, oil and gas facilities and ferry terminals. After passing under a road bridge with a 4...