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A 50 to 60m yacht the Stockholm Archipelago in the summer window (June through August 2026) runs $255,000 to $370,000 per week plus 25 to 30 percent APA, takes 10 to 12 guests across 6 cabins, and carries 14 to 18 crew. The Stockholm Archipelago at this LOA is a Baltic summer product on a 30,000-island grid running 80 kilometres from the Stockholm inner basin out to the Söderarm and Almagrundet outer light, with the active 50 to 60m fleet at any summer week sitting at 1 to 3 yachts on prior positioning from the Northern European basin. The bracket runs the destination on the Stockholm Saltsjöbaden KSSS (Royal Swedish Yacht Club) inner-archipelago base, the Sandhamn KSSS eastern hub on Sandön, the Vaxholm central clearance port on the Stockholm channel, and the Utö plus Möja plus Finnhamn outer-archipelago at-anchor footprint. The pilot bench through the Swedish Maritime Administration (Sjöfartsverket) and the prior chart-route through the rock-strewn fairway is the load-bearing technical question on the wider archipelago routing.
Why the bracket calls the Stockholm Archipelago specifically
The Sandhamn KSSS eastern hub and the outer-archipelago anchor product. Sandhamn on Sandön at 59 degrees 17 minutes north holds the bracket's structural eastern anchor on the KSSS marina at the Royal Swedish Yacht Club summer regatta calendar with the Round Gotland Race (ÅF Offshore Race) start-line tradition in the last week of June. The bracket runs the Sandhamn anchor on the outer Sandhamn Yacht Club roads or the alongside on the KSSS outer pontoon on prior allocation through the club agent. Möja on the eastern outer archipelago, Finnhamn on the central outer reach, and Utö on the southern outer reach hold the bracket's protected at-anchor product on the Granö Beckasin southern anchor and the Möja Berg Westerlund local-restaurant shore call.
The Vaxholm and inner-archipelago corridor. Vaxholm on the inner-archipelago channel at 59 degrees 24 minutes north holds the bracket's central clearance port on the Vaxholm Kastell daylight shore call and the Vaxholm Hotel and Café Hembygdsgården shore programme. The bracket runs the Vaxholm anchor or the alongside at the commercial quay on the prior Coast Guard (Kustbevakningen) coordination, and the bracket-fit guest weekly transit through Vaxholm sits inside the wider Stockholm-to-Sandhamn corridor on the structurally protected hold.
The Stockholm inner basin and Saltsjöbaden KSSS base. Stockholm inner basin at 59 degrees 19 minutes north handles the bracket's western embarkation through the Stadsgården commercial-cruise quay or the Strömkajen alongside on the prior commercial-traffic coordination. Saltsjöbaden KSSS Grand Hotel base on the eastern Stockholm suburb at 59 degrees 16 minutes north handles the bracket-fit alongside on the deep-water KSSS Grand Hotel pier with the 60m-plus capacity on the inner basin. The base runs 10 minutes by sea-taxi or 25 minutes by road from the Stockholm central commercial district for the chief stew provisioning at Östermalmshallen and 50 minutes by road from Stockholm Arlanda (ARN) for the bracket-fit guest transfer. ARN takes direct fixed-wing from JFK, EWR, ORD, BOS, LHR, AMS, CDG, FRA, CPH, OSL, HEL, and the wider transatlantic and intra-European network on the SAS, Finnair, Lufthansa, KLM, and the British Airways codeshare structure.
The cross-archipelago shore product. The Drottningholm Palace UNESCO daylight on the Mälaren western lake, the Gripsholm Castle daylight on the Mariefred southern shore, the Birka and Hovgården Viking-age UNESCO daylight on the Björkö island, and the Vasa Museum on the Stockholm Djurgården central daylight run the bracket's land-side shore programme on the prior tender or coach coordination. The Sandön southern outer-island Sandhamns Skola old-schoolhouse shore call and the Söderarm island lighthouse-shore daylight on the bracket's far-eastern reach hold the structural outer-archipelago shore extension.
Weekly rate map for summer 2026 to 2027
Rates below are firm summer pricing (June through August 2026, with the 2027 calendar repeating), before APA at 25 to 30 percent (the lower APA reflects the structurally protected light-swell Baltic hold and the lower Swedish fuel cost relative to the wider North Atlantic basin) and gratuity at 12 to 15 percent. The Drottningholm Palace and Birka UNESCO landing-coordination, the KSSS Sandhamn outer-pontoon allocation on the regatta-week shoulder, and the Swedish Customs clearance run through the APA on the daily basis. The 25 percent Swedish VAT on charter activity applies on the wider basis and the captain's agent runs the prior coordination on the bracket-fit chartering structure.
| LOA bracket | Motor yacht (low to high) | Sailing yacht and motor-sailor (low to high) |
|---|---|---|
| 50 to 53m | $255K to $290K per week | $215K to $250K per week |
| 53 to 57m | $290K to $325K per week | $250K to $290K per week |
| 57 to 60m | $325K to $370K per week | $285K to $325K per week |
The peak summer window runs the last week of June through mid-August on the Midsommar and the central Baltic-light calendar and pulls a 4 to 8 percent premium against the early June and late August shoulder edges. The KSSS Round Gotland Race window in the last week of June runs the structural Sandhamn-base premium on the 4 to 6 percent uptick. The May and September shoulder windows run the wider Baltic depression frequency and read structurally short at the bracket. The Stockholm Archipelago all-in week at the bracket runs roughly 15 to 22 percent below the equivalent Iceland summer week, roughly 8 to 12 percent below the equivalent Scotland Hebrides week, and roughly 12 to 18 percent below the equivalent Norway Bergen-base week. For broader context see 50-60m Norway, 50-60m Scotland Hebrides, and the Northern Europe charter season how-to.
What you actually get in this bracket
Cabins. Six standard. The Stockholm Archipelago summer pool at the bracket runs the on-deck master plus VIP plus four guest doubles as the layout, calibrated to the multi-couple Baltic summer-week pattern with the protected at-anchor hold across the outer-archipelago footprint.
Crew. Fourteen to eighteen. The Stockholm Archipelago call rewards a captain bench with prior KSSS Sandhamn outer-pontoon tenure, prior Vaxholm and Saltsjöbaden clearance routine, prior Stockholm-to-Sandhamn fairway pilotage on the rock-strewn central channel, and prior Swedish Maritime Administration (Sjöfartsverket) chart-route bench. The chef bench runs the Nordic and Stockholm local pool with the Östermalmshallen provisioning, the Möja Berg Westerlund local-fisherman langoustine delivery, the Roslagen northern beef and the Söderhamn shellfish supply, and the Operakällaren and Frantzén Stockholm fine-dining shore-programme on the tender shuttle structure. The deck-team bench with prior Stockholm-channel fairway routing and the protected at-anchor tender programme through the rock-strewn fairway is the structural question.
Tenders. Primary 10 to 11m fast tender plus a 7 to 8m beach tender plus a chase boat plus a dedicated water-toy tender. The Drottningholm Palace shore landing, the Birka Viking-age daylight, the Sandhamn Sandön southern-Skola shore call, the Möja and Finnhamn local-restaurant shore programme, and the Vaxholm Kastell daylight run tender-heavy on the central archipelago routing. The Stockholm inner-basin shore shuttle takes the primary on the Strömkajen or the Nybroviken alongside.
At-anchor stabilizers. Recommended at the upper end, optional at the lower bracket. The Baltic inner-archipelago protected hold runs the structurally light-swell window through the central summer calendar (the Baltic at this latitude runs the residual 0.5 to 1.5 metre swell on the outer fringe and the protected zero-swell hold on the inner archipelago), and the bracket-fit at-anchor stabilizer reads as the structural comfort feature rather than the load-bearing technical requirement at the lower-LOA end.
Beach club. Load-bearing at the bracket. The Baltic water temperature runs 17 to 21 degrees through the central summer window (the warmest Baltic latitude in the summer-rise calendar) and the beach club open-platform daylight runs the structural day-anchor swim programme. The bracket-fit guest swim runs the open beach-club deck on the Möja and Finnhamn outer-archipelago at-anchor hold and the inflatable water-toy platform on the prior captain-coordination structure.
Helipad. Touch-and-go on the upper end, not load-bearing on the wider bracket. The cross-archipelago helicopter shuttle from Stockholm Bromma (BMA) and Arlanda (ARN) to the Birka UNESCO daylight, the Mariefred Gripsholm Castle daylight, and the Stockholm Visby Gotland day-trip shore call runs the bracket-fit upper-end product. The Cat A helipad reads as structurally light at the bracket relative to the wider Stockholm-area road and ferry network on the 1 to 2 hour ground transit, and the bracket without the helipad reads structurally adequate for the wider archipelago product.
Trip shape that fits the bracket
The bracket's Stockholm Archipelago call sits inside a 7 to 10 night Baltic summer programme rather than a longer expedition routing because the 80-kilometre Stockholm-to-Söderarm footprint runs the destination on the structurally protected hold across the wider archipelago grid. The 7-night Stockholm-to-Sandhamn structural week runs Stockholm embarkation, one night at Saltsjöbaden KSSS or Strömkajen for the clearance, one night at Vaxholm with the Kastell daylight and the inner-archipelago shore call, two nights at Sandhamn on the KSSS outer-pontoon with the Sandön southern-Skola shore daylight and the cross-Sandhamn regatta-window day-anchor, one night at Möja on the eastern outer reach with the Berg Westerlund local-restaurant shore programme, one night at Finnhamn on the central outer reach with the Granö Beckasin southern anchor daylight, one night on the inner Stockholm return with the Djurgården shore call.
The 10-night Stockholm-to-Gotland and northern-archipelago extension routing runs Stockholm embarkation, one night at Saltsjöbaden for the clearance, two nights at Sandhamn with the KSSS outer pontoon and the Sandön shore programme, two nights at the northern Söderarm and Almagrundet outer reach with the lighthouse-shore daylight and the protected anchor on the outer fringe, the southbound transit to Visby Gotland 100 kilometres south with the Visby Old Town UNESCO daylight (medieval-wall shore call and the Gotland sheep-and-saffron pancake fine-dining shore), one night at Visby Inner Harbour on the deep-water alongside, two nights on the northbound return through the southern Stockholm outer reach with the Utö southern anchor and the Ornö central-reach anchor, one night at Vaxholm, one night on the inner Stockholm return. Ten nights. The bracket-fit Stockholm-to-Gotland structural extension that holds the destination's strongest product separation.
The longer 14-night Baltic cross-corridor routing through the Åland Islands east and the Finnish Helsinki extension reads structurally long for the bracket-fit week pattern and we would route the standalone 14-night plan as a Stockholm-to-Helsinki cross-Baltic transit. Most bracket-fit clients route the 7 to 10 night Stockholm Archipelago plan.
What the bracket does not do well at the Stockholm Archipelago
The October through April plan. The Stockholm summer charter calendar runs the central late-June through August window only and the May and September shoulder edges hold on the structurally tight basis. The October through April plan runs the wider Baltic depression frequency, the structurally short daylight, the residual ice-watch on the outer-fringe channel through the late-winter calendar, and the closed marina structure on the wider winter shutdown. We would pass on any winter Stockholm plan and route the bracket on the Mediterranean wintering or the Caribbean rotation for the same calendar.
The non-pilot-coordinated transit through the inner Stockholm channel. The Stockholm inner basin to Vaxholm and outward to the Sandhamn corridor runs the rock-strewn fairway with the prior chart-route through the Sjöfartsverket on the wider bracket-fit transit. The non-coordinated transit on the captain bench without prior Swedish-channel pilotage reads as the structural blocker at the bracket. We would pass on any plan that does not have the prior Sjöfartsverket pilotage or the agent-coordinated chart-route confirmed in writing through the captain's office at the contract.
The deep-draft hull on the inner-archipelago fairway. The Stockholm inner-archipelago and central-channel fairway runs the 6 to 8 metre nominal depth on the structural waypoint and the deep-draft hull above 4.5 metres reads structurally short on the outer-fringe and Möja-Finnhamn at-anchor reach. We would pass on the 4.5 metre-plus draft on the bracket-fit Stockholm week and route the deeper-draft hull on the Sandhamn-only or the Gotland extension routing.
The high-volume town-shore-only Stockholm-Old-Town plan. The Stockholm Gamla Stan and Djurgården shore programme runs the bracket's land-side daylight on the 1 to 2 night basis, and the standalone Stockholm-Old-Town plan without the outer-archipelago Sandhamn-Möja-Finnhamn at-anchor reach reads structurally short on the bracket-fit product separation. We would pass on the Stockholm-only plan and require the outer-archipelago 2 to 3 night minimum on the structural at-anchor hold.
The pick
For two couples, 7-night Stockholm-to-Sandhamn structural week in mid-July with Stockholm embarkation, one night at Saltsjöbaden KSSS for the clearance, one night at Vaxholm with the Kastell daylight, two nights at Sandhamn on the KSSS outer pontoon with the Sandön southern-Skola shore daylight, one night at Möja with the Berg Westerlund shore call, one night at Finnhamn with the Granö Beckasin daylight, one night on the inner Stockholm return with the Djurgården and Vasa Museum shore daylight: a 53 to 55m motor yacht, 6 cabins, twin tenders plus chase plus water-toy tender, load-bearing beach club on the protected at-anchor swim, captain bench on the Stockholm-channel fairway pilotage and the KSSS outer-pontoon routine. Budget $310K per week, all-in roughly $415K including APA at 28 percent. Lead time 6 to 12 months for the July central-light window.
For a family of 10, 10-night Stockholm-to-Gotland and northern-archipelago routing in late July with the structural-fit shallow-draft hull on the bracket-fit upper end, two nights at Sandhamn with the KSSS outer pontoon, two nights at the northern Söderarm and Almagrundet outer reach, the southbound transit to Visby Gotland with the medieval Old Town UNESCO daylight, one night at Visby Inner Harbour on the deep-water alongside, two nights on the northbound return through the southern Stockholm outer reach with the Utö and Ornö anchors, one night at Vaxholm, one night on the inner Stockholm return: a 56 to 58m motor yacht, 6 cabins, shallow-draft (under 4.5 metres) for the outer-fringe channel fit, touch-and-go helipad on the upper-end Visby and Birka daylight, captain bench on the Gotland transit and the northern-Söderarm outer-reach routine. Budget $345K per week, all-in roughly $460K. Lead time 10 to 16 months.
Inventory
The live 50 to 60m Stockholm Archipelago summer inventory updates weekly through the June to August calendar.. For broker-side inquiry, see the brokers pillar and the Northern Europe charter season how-to.