July 2023

FOG AND SCENERY We left our anchorage at Ebeltofthamna at 0400 in the morning, to catch a good weather window to make it up [...]

OTHER-WORLDLY Anchored at Ebeltofthamna, once the wind dropped, we sat in an almost silent world. In front of us, and astern of the boat, [...]

MORE ICEBERGS After coffee and cookies with Maarten, Matthijs and Deborah on Saraban’de, we dropped our lines and headed northwest across Kongsfjorden to Krossfjorden [...]

After a night at anchored at Engelsbukta, our next stop was going to be Ny-Ålesund.     Frederieke was [...]

So far, other than in Longyearbyen we had not been on land in Svalbard, what with polar bears being around and not having the [...]

WIND IN SVALBARD The next day the forecast suggested that the wind would back into the east. Naïvely, we thought, this might allow us [...]

TRYING TO GO NORTH Keen to get out of the harbour, we left Longyearbyen in the afternoon and looked for an anchorage relatively close-by [...]

THE CAPITAL OF SVALBARD Longyearbyen is the operational centre of Svalbard, a town that prides itself on being functional. This is a town that [...]

After a long-long sleep, we awoke the next morning to the sounds of walrus blows. Our friend was still feeding around Yuma! And over [...]

Icebergs Happily anchored and just plain tired our plan was to wait here at Isbjørnhamna for 6 hours. This would allow us to avoid [...]