1. Description: 'Wild Adventure' is a well equipped spacious family yacht or filming platform
 with plenty of headroom, with good visibility from the saloon and a sociable galley that overlooks it, 
again with excellent all round visibility.  The Southerly design incorporates unusually high freeboard, disguised by a teak strake, which makes for exceptional headroom throughout the yacht.  
There are both cockpit and interior steering positions.
There are two overlapping bunks forward, a double and single in the saloon and a double
  and single in the aft cabin which has its own heads and is separable from the rest of the yacht.   There is 
a substantial pulpit that is fun to sit out on when sailing and which makes access to the pontoon when 
moored bows-on easy.  There is an excellent 'dive platform' on the transom with steps to the deck.  
This is good for swimming from and convenient for access to the dingy and when diving.
 And of course it is an exceptional safety feature should someone fall overboard!  
A remarkable and important feature of 'Wild Adventure' is her swing keel which,
giving her a depth of just 65 cms (29 inches) with the keel up, allows her to edge into sheltered 
anchorages and bays that other yachts cannot reach, or to cross reefs or explore up rivers 
where others dare not follow.  
Indeed in tidal waters she can be beached upright as the tide goes out. 
The Gulf of Finland, being virtually fresh water, is kind to yachts, this 
combined with the fact that 'Wild Adventure' has been kept ashore and inside for eight 
or more months a year and looked after by the boatyard has ensured that she is 
in exceptionally good order.

2.Equipment: 'Wild Adventure' has newly installed Raymarine Radar and C-Map Chartplotter with colour monitor.  The C-map, covers the whole of the Gulf of Finland and West to the UK.  
She has a state of the art forward-looking Echopilot  sounder and Raymarine sounder.  
She has the latest Raymarine Autohelm autopilot.  
She has Webasto heating and ventilation and hot water system, 
Rutgerson Self-tacking foresail system, 
in-mast mainsail furling, 
Furlex genoa furling.   
There are grey-water tanks, a ring-main,  
a calorifier for the hot-water run from both the mains and the Webasto heating system.  
There is a powered windlass with remote.
There is a new Avon dingy that packs away neatly.  
The interior lighting is bright new Halogen low voltage. 
The Yanmar engine is newly serviced as is the keel lifting mechanism which is hydraulically operated, and as are all through-hull valves.  The fire extinguishers, life-belts and flares are all in date.  
There is an excellent inventory of tools and spares, plus paper charts, hand-held GPS and VHF, binoculars, safety-harnesses, life-jackets, wet-weather gear, instruction manuals, boat-handling books, guides to the region, navigation test cards and check-sheets.  
There are also excellent yachting guides to the Finnish Archipelago.  
There are pillows, duvets, sleeping bags, sheets, duvet covers and pillow cases.

3. Location:  'Wild Adventure', a British registered yacht, is currently berthed at 
Dalsbruk/Kasnas in the south-west corner of Finland, gateway to the extraordinary Finnish Archipelago, 
one of the finest yachting areas in the world.  The Archipelago, a maze of 30,000 pine-covered islands 
is a World Heritage site.  At times the well-buoyed channels weave between islands so close 
one could almost touch them, at other times they emerge into wide sweeps of sea with distant shores.  
There are no significant tides.  The waters are generally sheltered.  
Almost all the larger islands have marinas, with hot showers and saunas, power and fresh water, 
woods and villages to explore, restaurants and shopping.  There are of course innumerable sheltered
 coves and inlets for a boat with the shallow draught of 'Wild Adventure'.  
And dare we say it, if you do nudge a rock then the swing keel is an excellent shock-absorber!  
 In addition to the Archipelago there are other exciting adventures to be had; 
the Aaland Islands between Finland and Sweden are fun to visit.  
This is the home of the mighty Pommern - the last of the great grain ships.  
Just a days sail to the south is Tallinn, the extraordinary medieval capital of Estonia.  
Then two days sail to the East is St Petersburg.  That really is a city to sail into!!  

We have excellent contacts and advice regarding visas and visiting St Petersburg 

having sailed there, via Tallinn. 
Kasnas, home of Finlandia sailing is on an island just to the south of Dalsbruk 
(Dalsbruk is the Swedish name, it's in a Swedish-speaking corner of Finland, 
Taalintedaas is the Finnish name).  There is an excellent yard at Dalsbruk.  
They look after 'Wild Adventure'  and keep her in good order.  
There are good shops here and an excellent restaurant - Portside.  
There is internet access in the Marina office.  Mobile phones work throughout the region.  
This is after all the home of Nokia!  Almost everyone speaks excellent English.  
They are very friendly and pleased, if not intrigued, to see you if you are British, or whatever nationality.  
You'll be something of a novelty here and well looked-after.

4. Climate:  Finland is as far to the east of Copenhagen as Copenhagen is to the east of London.  
It can catch the central European high pressure systems giving long hours of sunny weather in the summer.  
Long hours can mean from 6 in the morning to ten at night.  And it's a warm sun not a scorching sun 
as in the Med.  So it's tops off all day rather than hide from 10 till 4!  
The long hours of daylight are invigorating rather than enervating, the children still swimming at ten at night!  Then you sleep well. The daylight means that the seawater, which is virtually fresh, 
warms to 22 or 23 degrees - swimming pool temperature.  
And of course there is not much night sailing to make one anxious - simply because there is not much night.  The winds tend to be moderate and steady in the summer months.

5. Getting there:  Dalsbruk and Kasnas are a two and a half-hour drive from Helsinki 
or 3 hours by bus which takes you right to the yacht.  From the UK, Flying Finn 
(a low cost internet airline, 98 Euros each way) has an excellent direct flight 
that leaves Stanstead at 11.15 in the morning, arriving in Helsinki in time to catch the bus direct to Dalsbruk, arriving in the evening, when of course it's still sunny.  
Return flights leave Helsinki at 9.15 am, arriving at 10.15 UK time. There's a 2 hour time difference.  
There are several other low-cost flights from Heathrow or Gatwick perhaps best accessed
 through Opodo on the net, just type in Opodo.  
For advice on travel from the UK feel free to ring Simon Normanton, 
owner of 'Wild Adventure' on 0044 1406 351 522 any time.

6.  Cost:  Magnus Eriksson of Finlandia Sailing, (see contact details above) manages the charter 
of 'Wild Adventure'  and ultimately he will make all arrangements with you 
though feel free to ring or email Simon Normanton at any time. 

simon@lighthouse-films.co.uk  
Charter cost per week, which runs from Saturday to Saturday
 are between 1700Eu and 2500Eu (£1,200 and £1,785) according to season.  
The boat is insured for charter.

Good Sailing!

Lighthouse Films