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A few days in Ålesund
HOW NICE TO FEEL THE SUN! We spent a couple of days in Ålesund, again waiting for a good weather window to approach the next coastal danger area, Statt. [...]
A long and sunny passage to Ålesund
THE WEATHER IMPROVES Finally, the weather cleared up, and the swell and waves had calmed down enough to start thinking about continuing our journey south. The next leg included [...]
Spending time in the city of Kristiansund
THINGS TO DO IN KRISTIANSUND Kristiansund, it turned out, was a great place to wait out the gale. A pretty town with lots of things to see and do [...]
A long hop south
TRYING TO GET TO THE NORTH SEA Over the past few weeks we had been working our way south knowing that we were operating with an ever shrinking timeline. [...]
A walk around the Troll’s Hat
ANOTHER HOP SOUTH Two days later, we took advantage of the bad weather moving north to get a good day’s travel southwards. Our first destination was a small harbour [...]
Trying to find a place to shelter
LEAVING LOVUND We left Lovund with, yet again, a great feeling of excitement. We had a fresh breeze and it looked like we were about to get a lovely [...]
Damn fine coffees and hikes on Lovund
THE BEST COFFEE IN NORWAY The small boat harbour on Lovund is on the southern side of the town and in behind the industrial harbour with ulta modern-design salmon processing [...]
Passing by Verne and Poe’s Mælstrom
DEPARTING LOFOTEN Based on the forecast, we started out with high hopes of getting a good sail in across the mouth of the Vestfjord. And indeed, for the first [...]