The weather determines our route through Northern Norway 🌬️🌧️🌦️

The beautiful summer weather we had over the past two weeks is over for now. The weather is unstable with lots of wind and rain. That's Norway for you 😅. We had planned to sail from Tromsø via the west side of the island of Senja and the Vesterålen to the south towards the Lofoten Islands […]

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A break in beautiful green surroundings and some useful boat jobs

After arriving on Sunday afternoon from Svalbard, we stay for two more days in the beautiful anchorage of Toftefjorden. The weather is lovely and sunny, so we spend a lot of time outside. Just sitting outside, doing some jobs now and then. Toine services the winches and I do the laundry. We relax wonderfully […]

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Svalbard (5) – Dutch history of whaling 🐋, return to the south and the crossing to Norway ⛵️🇳🇴

This is our last week in Svalbard! We don't know that yet at the beginning of the week when we are still in the northwest. But sailing back south, we see a weather window opening up for the crossing to Norway, which we want to take advantage of. Especially since the weather seems to be becoming quite unstable in the slightly longer term […]

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