Swedish and Finnish skerries: Shallows and grounding

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Swedish and Finnish skerries: how the place works

Thousands of rocks, many of them just below the surface and unmarked. The official channels are narrow and well buoyed, but a metre outside can be a boulder, and the chart does not show every one. The water is clear, which deceives: depth cannot be judged from above.

Swedish and Finnish skerries: what breaks there

Grounding is the damage here, and because of the hard granite it turns out differently than on sand: keel, keel bolts and hull root take the full energy, often with cracks in the laminate that only show in the crane.

Swedish and Finnish skerries: what this means for your policy

After grounding on rock the boat belongs out of the water before going on. Check whether the policy pays for the inspection and whether it covers damage to the keel root without deduction for age or wear.

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In the calculator this spot falls under EU inland waters

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