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 […]
…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 […]
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 […]