08/12/2015 14:03
Now we have been in 7 of the total of 9 islands down here, and we're pleasantly surprised. We were very negative to the Canaries before we came, and thought it would be two depressing months. But we've actually had a lot of fun! Gran Canaria is living up to his reputation as the tourist bomb it...
23/10/2015 15:43
Hola! Now we have reached the Canary Islands, and the first stop is La Graciosa, a small island just north of Lanzarote. Had heard great things about this place from one of the locals in Porto Santo, so almost the entire Norwegian fleet decided to head here. But to get port space one must apply...
02/10/2015 13:07
After some discussion, we sailed to Madeira. First stop was Porto Santo which is a small island with 5,000 inhabitants, about 40 nm northeast of the Madeira. We don´t regret, it is incredibly beautiful out here and the water temperatures are impeccable.
The crossing started with too much wind...
28/04/2015 16:59
Now we are back on Terceira, Azores. Halvard is here in April, and me for 10 days. There has been much needed to be done with the boat, but we are beginning to reach the end. First we had underwater hull sanded and polished, and so we have had in total 4 layers of primer and antifouling. The...
23/03/2015 00:02
Trondheim, mars 2015
Good evening. I´m sitting in my couch looking for new and old blogs about long distance sailors. Time is running fast, and we count the days until we set sail from Terceira in the Azores in August. The waiting is almost unbearable, but we try not to think too much about it....
20/05/2014 23:47
When it turned out that Halvard and the crew had to head to the Azores instead of Scotland, I went to meet them there, instead of Shetland which was the original plan. I had barely heard of the Azores until now, and very much looked forward to cruise around the islands. Azores, who is Portuguese,...
10/05/2014 08:46
Finn.no is for me, like many others, the ultimate supplier on everything we want and need in life. The fact that I have an office job where one of two screens constantly stood up with boat-advertisements did that I could all sail boat ads by heart.
One December day an...
