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HOME NAVIGATION.
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Also the Swedish ooast-Bteamer early developed into a type which
is very characteristic for our country.
The Swedish coast-steamer is in general a vessel of medium size, about 60
meters (200 feet) in length. Very elegant in appearance, it almost resembles a
»pleasure yacht»; it is extremely well kept: painted, cleaned, and polished up
at very frequent intervals. The fitting-up affords every comfort: the saloons
are cosy, carpeted, well lightetf and ventilated; the cabins are furnished with
comfortable berths, and with large and soft sofas (hardly ever with
sleeping-berths placed above each other, as is so often the case on the steamers of other
countries). The attendants are exclusively female, and also the restaurant, which
is at the same time excellent and inexpensive, is usually conducted by women.
This perfect cheerfulness and comfort in everything, together with traveling through
sceneries of peculiar beauty, without any rolling of the sea and consequently
without seasickness, make the voyages with our archipelago- and canal steamers
a real recreation, which circumstance also of later times has commenced to receive
increasing attention on the part of tourists from foreign countries.
Of the Swedish boat-types for sailing the most noteworthy are
the Koster boat, the Roslag sloop, and the Bleking punt.
Roslag sloop.
The Koster boat, which has received its name from the Koster islands on
the coast of Bohuslän, is a particulary happy combination of a good and Bafe
fishing vessel, being able to take a considerable cargo, and of a good sailer, braving
with success the notorious gales of the Skagerrack. The Koster boat is decked,
very strongly built, and furnished with two sails, fore-sail and storm-sail. This
type is the one generally used in the pilot service.
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