Archive for the ‘Vikings’ Category

Perhaps not the most common tourist activity: kayaking or canoeing in a capital city. This photo is from the capital of Sweden: Stockholm, with lots of opportunities to paddle around in an own sightseeing tour from the waterside.

The Northern Venice: Stockholm, has a lot of water surrounding the city: one big sweetwater lake Mälaren is [...]

The last boat posts has lead to this post about the very Swedish boat type called Pettersson-boats after it’s creator, the legendary Swedish boat designer Carl Gustaf Pettersson (1876-1953).

Carl Gustaf Pettersson designed those very special 7-10 meter long wooden boats with straight and high sterns in the mid 10’s. They soon became very popular among [...]

Another boat in the northern Venice: Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. This time a leisure boat at one of Stockholm’s many different boat clubs.

I can tell that this is some kind of Fjord-boat, since I have had one myself many years ago and they’re very popular in Scandinavia. I can’t see the exact model name [...]