Saling Regatta- Åf Offshore Race

Photo: Oskar Kihlborg, ksss.se (other photos past times me!)
It is that fourth dimension of the twelvemonth again... the ÅF Offshore Race is inwards town! The race is this Sabbatum (June 29th) but the sailing boats are already hither together with they bring a "racing village" fix amongst alive music performances, nutrient & gulp tents equally good equally data tents through Sunday.
I stopped past times yesterday eve amongst a friend to banking concern fit out the boats together with bring a drink, soaking upward the sailing atmosphere! The racing hamlet is laid up on the isle of Skeppsholmen adjacent to the beautiful Af Chapman sailing frigate, simply across the H2O from the regal palace. They bring several nutrient & gulp tents laid up... of particular banking concern complaint is the 1 fix past times Operakällaren, called Operabaren på Kajen (The Opera Bar on the Pier) amongst some swell dishes! The hamlet is opened upward every hateful solar daytime this weekend until 11pm, except Dominicus when they closed at 5pm. Full plan linked above.
The race itself starts at 11am on Sabbatum together with it is a staggered start. I watched it terminal twelvemonth together with it was quite fun to run into the boats tacking dorsum together with forth, getting into position. From Stockholm, the racers caput out through the archipelago to the sailing mecca of Sandhamn. From at that spot it is out into the Baltic Sea together with around the isle of Gotland. Last twelvemonth nosotros stood nigh Fotografiska (photography museum) which is simply a fifteen infinitesimal walk from the Rival Hotel, together with that was a proficient house to run into the commencement of the race... otherwise anywhere inwards the harbour should hold upward good. Especially the southward shores of the islands of Djurgården, Skeppsholmen and Kastellholmen.



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