It is no accident that Shetland has attracted sailors of all types for thousands of years. Its position at the cross-roads between the North Sea and the North Atlantic, between Scandinavia, Faroe, Iceland, mainland Britain and the New World plus numerous safe inlets, voes, harbours and anchorages, especially on the East side, make Shetland an ideal stop-over or destination for the enthusiastic sailor.

Lerwick harbour was a port of call for the 1999 Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race; each year in May over 50 Norwegian yachts arrive to compete in the Shetland-Bergen Race and participants in the Annual Round-Britain Yacht Race enjoy a brief respite in Shetland before sailing South again. In addition, many hundreds of pleasure craft from all over the world visit Shetland each year just because they like it here.

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