I guess that it’s not every day that someone embarks on a long boat trip in a small 5-metre speedboat, let alone when it involves a father-daughter duo. But my daughter and I were pushing our boundaries and the river’s current as we set out on an odyssey down the River Danube. From the majestic […]
If you are planning a long trip, you probably know roughly what the trip will cost you. In that case, you can use this simple trick to make it much easier to save money for it.I expect that our next trip will cost € 18000 all inclusive for a year. If I divide it by […]
…in winter What they call a river in France, they modestly call a stream in Sweden 😀. And there is plenty of water in the Swedish streams – and the nearest ones are not far away from my house. But fortunately (or unfortunately for us river sailors), there are many hydroelectric plants, but not many […]
“Were you safe?” several people asked when we sailed to Morocco a few years ago. For a month we sailed in the North African country and moored among others, in industrial ports and small fishing villages. The fishermen took their catch ashore over our boat when they moored on our side. We saw sheep get […]
“The last idiot is not born yet,” people said when I told that I wanted to sail to the Mediterranean in a 17-foot boat from the ’70s. But I managed to get all the way through Europe to finally drop anchor off the coast of France. Now you can follow along in a series of […]
This spring I bought a small half-open motorboat from sometime in the 70s. Now I am sailing it to the Mediterranean on rivers and canals. But how is it going? “Usually we charge € 1 per meter,” says the harbour master in the small harbour on the German part of the river Moselle. He scratches […]
Allow me to introduce my expedition boat: A half-open Terhi 520HT from sometime in the 70s. It is in a cheeky orange color and equipped with a 70 hp. outboard engine from the 90s. The perfect boat to sail to the Mediterranean from Sweden. No, it may not be the perfect boat. The perfect boat […]
Blue water sailing is wonderful when you are well prepared, and for the most part it actually is more that wonderful. But if you are not properly prepared, it can also be absolutely awful. It is usually those who are well prepared, and who know what they will experience, who avoid the bad experiences. There […]
At a time when everyone else were staying at home, I was forced to go to Spain with three friends to sail our newly purchased boat home. The trip did not go as expected. Bad weather, closed ports and problems with the name of the new boat gave us challenges. This is the video-story of […]
Erik Aanderaa is a wild, Norwegian viking. He just finished a single-handed loop around the Norwegian Sea to the arctic island of Jan Mayen, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Shetlands and back to Norway. But Erik is a also a popular YouTuber with the motto “No bullshit, just sailing”. His latest voyage is documented in three chapters […]