Route sailing out of Stockholm
The route out of the archipelago will go through Oxdjupet, Lindalssundet and across Kanholmsfjärden to Sandhamn.
We will set sail after Sandhamn.
Why we don’t set sails in the archipelago
We get a lot of questions about why we don’t set sail in the archipelago. The reason is that Götheborg is a big ship. She is the biggest ocean-going wooden ship in the world, and built for sailing the oceans, which means the margins in the archipelago are too small. Setting the sails takes a lot of time, which in the archipelago would mean that we’d have to start taking a sail down before even getting it up. To give some reference, setting all sails takes at least a day, and the same amount of time is needed to take them down.
The engines help us sail more
We are required to have engines, and we don’t use them out of laziness or convenience, but because we have to. The engines mean that we actually sail more. They help us to quickly get out to the ocean, where the ship really comes to her right. In the past, the ship had to wait for the wind to blow in the right direction, and thus to turn each time the route required a change of direction. This meant it could take weeks to just get out of the archipelago.
