A relaxed morning this morning. A bit of shopping and a bit of visiting …. Once that was done, we headed off around lunchtime to Oldenborg. The weather was bright sunshine and calm when we left, but this is Norway
From Smenessundet we decided to head further inland into the fjords behind Kristiansund. We headed for a small jetty mentioned in the pilot book called Tingvoll. This is just outside the Tingvoll Hotel and while it would be very exposed
There are various chunks of the Norwegian coast which the pilot books warn about and just north of Ålesund is one of them. it is known as the Hustadvika. It is a part of the mainland, so you have to
With a few days to spare before a crew changeover, we spent some time exploring Ålesund. The first morning we got up and spluttered into our tea when we saw that they had built a huge block of flats at
With reasonable weather today, but strong winds forecast at the weekend, we decided to keep moving on. We left Sandsøya just before 9am and motored and motored and ….. The wind simply didn’t oblige, rarely getting above 5 knots in
The Stad (sometimes written as Stadt, Statt, or Statlandet) is a headland between the cities of Bergen (to the south) and Ålesund and is an unavoidable obstacle when heading north or south on the Norwegian coast. It is a 500 metre high
Another day, another early start …. heading closer to the Statt. We had a couple of options to position ourselves ready to go round the Statt, but in the end decided on Måløy. On advice from a local we routed
A moderate start this morning at 7am to head another 45 miles or so north up to Florø. We are now starting to look ahead to try and find a suitable gap for rounding the Statt headland. This headland has
After a very pleasant day in Bergen, we decided, with a reasonable forecast to try and get some further miles north done, so we headed off once again at 4am. The early hour was partly as we had a fair
We waited one more day in Haugesund. This was mainly through necessity (strong northerly winds!) but also enabled a continuation of the sociological study of homelessness in Norway which we had been undertaking, being moored close to the home for