Cruising into the entrance of the island of Dyrön, in western Sweden

While the Mediterranean rightfully gets a lot of coverage when the subject is yacht chartering in Europe, it only scratches the surface of unique and varied coastlines,  from the Algarve in Portugal to the west, past Scotland’s western islands to the north, all the way east to the archipelagos of Scandinavia in the Baltic.

Enter walled cities on the coast of France on the tide, pass through Germany’s Kiel Canal from the North Sea to the Baltic, and cruise to a rocky island in Sweden in June, navigating by the midnight sun. Europe’s geography, history and cultures offer a change of pace at every turn.