Click on paddelkartan Kristinehamn (the Kristinehamn paddling map) and you will find suggestions for tours below for those who wish to paddle in Lake Vänern. This information is from a sign, which you will find at Kapurja at Vålösundsvägen.
Suggested tours
- Into the reeds, 1 hour, simple
- Icecream and swimming, 1-2 hours, simple
- Coffee paddling - Tjuven, 1-3 hours, 5 km, simple
- Around the island Lindön, 4-5 hours, average
- Around the island Vålön, 3-4 hours average/demanding
- Around the island Kalvön
- Around the island Sibberön, 5-7 hours, demanding
- Vålösundet and the guest harbour, simple
- Icecream and swimming, simple
- The picassosculpture, simple
Iläggsplats: Vålösundet vid Picassoskulpturen eller vid Kapurja. Här finns kajakuthyrning.
Think of
- Assume that other mariners do not see you easily.
- Stay away for your own safety.
- Paddle in a row, if you are several of you paddling.
- Paddle close to land and paddle outside the fairway, where possible.
- The fairway is within the dots, in the middle of Vålösundet / Hjälmarsundet. Paddling outside the waterway, where possible. Cross Vålösundet straight across, as fast as you can.
- Make sure you have a mobile phone in a waterproof case on you. Remember to keep it close to your body, so it goes with you.
- Check the sea weather forecast carefully. 8 m/s on Lake Vänern is a lot. 10 m/s and more stay at home or paddle inland. Tips: SSRS weather app.
- Notify someone on shore that you are paddling.
- Bring water with you.
Värmlandsskärgården
Lake Vänern, Sweden's largest lake. Here you can fish free.
Vänern
Raholmarna, 2, 68193 Kristinehamn
