Tiziano Sgarbi, proud owner of Swan 78 Sulità, shares this cruising experience from Kokkola to Spain: “Leaving Kokkola by sailing to reach the Balearic Islands means to meet different European faces, all of them narrated by the sea. 
The frozen Baltic onto which Finland looks is a sheet of steel when it is quiet. Then, the Northern Sea, rippled surface and tricky for its colour, almost brown, below puffed up clouds. Therefore, the infinite Atlantic Ocean along the French coasts. And then the Mediterranean Sea; the wobbly horizon line melts with the blue of the sea, the green of the florid vegetation, the white of the tiny villages.
Pietarsaari, 46k residents, is a white paradise in winter, while in the summertime it opens to a little mildness, without forgetting cutting winds. The whole crew is bundled up: 10 persons including the captain, Stefano Visintin, and Anders Skogman, the Finnish reserved sailor who never speaks but knows each secret of the Northern Sea. Sometimes his gaze is our guide.
Thanks to two-hour shifts, we reach Stockholm, a city of almost perfect beauty, where the crew takes a rest to visit the city by bicycle.
Then another stop in Copenhagen and again by sea towards Kiel, an unmissable leg with its 100 km of artificial canal to save time.
Our trip continues with Amsterdam, the English Channel, Normandy, the Ocean, Gibraltar.
Finally, the sunny beauty of southern Europe welcomes us. The cutting cold is now only a vague memory.”