Restaurant Lightvessel Relandersgrund — Restaurant in Helsinki sub-region

Relandersgrund is a former lightvessel formerly located at the Relanderinmatala shallow in Rauma, Finland.

The ship was built from 1886 to 1888 in Turku at the Wm. Crichton & Co. shipyard. The ship's hull is made of steel and fastened with bolts. The ship's measurements are 27.1 by 6.7 by 2.1 metres (88.9 ft × 22.0 ft × 6.9 ft). The ship has a displacement of 168 tonnes. The ship originally had two masts and sails, a light emission device running on oil and a fog siren running on pressurised air. At the turn of the century the ship was fitted with a boiler for the foghorn, the anchor and heating. The hot-bulb engine operating the foghorn was moved to use an electric generator which powered a searchlight. This device, using an arc lamp rare at the time, was used for maritime pilots. All other lamps on the ship were kerosene lamps.

The ship was unpowered and moved pulled by a tugboat. The sails were usually only raised to lighten the burden on the anchor chain during harsh...

Nice idea to have a bar on a boat. Nice view and pretty quiet. As expected very expensive however the service was quite bad. We were waiting for about 10 minutes to order because the barman was busy doing other things elsewhere. Also it gets cold as soon as the sun sets but there are blankets. I am not sure if there is an option to sit inside. When i visited...

Whilst the location and selection is great, one star is removed because the til automatically adds a random surcharge (€0.70) for paying with a non-EU card, which I have never experienced in Finland before, or any other outlet in the EU either for that matter. This is basically an unfair “tax” on foreign visitors and isn’t applied by any other POS I have...