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The Standing Mast Route – Part 1
Farewell to Reitdiephaven After six cold, wet winter months in the Reitdiep Marina in Groningen, our contract was up and it was time to leave. Yuma in Reitdiep Marina. [...]
The last passage of the year
A SMALL WEATHER WINDOW Four days later the winds had dropped and the waves at the river mouth had settled enough to allow us to get out. At the [...]
Where to next?
DENMARK IT IS This hopping along the Norwegian coast had now got us to the country’s southern most point. Here we needed to make a call, is our next [...]
Maybe not the best call
(Note: this time no photos because of weather) WEATHER AND DECISION MAKING All the way down the Norwegian coast, literally from the Arctic to the very south, a distance [...]
Looking for weather windows to the Netherlands
COAST HOPPING SOUTH The journey south from Bergen now descended into a series of even shorter hops along the coast. Ideally, we had wanted to do the crossing south [...]
Back in the cinnamon bun capital of Norway
THE BEST BUNS IN NORWAY Bergen was on its best behaviour for us – grey, wet, sometimes a bit windy but mostly not, my (D) favourite kind of weather. [...]
Making our way to Bergen
'SAILING' THROUGH FJORDS We left Silda the next day with 10-12kn on the nose and headed into the Måløysundet. Along the way we were accompanied by various rainbows, very [...]
Rounding Statt in good weather
SUNNY SAILING After spending three days in Ålesund, the weather gave us a chance to sneak further south along the coast. We filled up at the fuel dock in [...]