It’s below freezing, the wind is blowing 25 knots and we’re in a 2m swell. Barba is dancing over the waves, the pot of soup we made first thing in…
Norway
Lofoten Islands: Is this Arctic paradise the world’s most beautiful place?
I could already feel the wind pick up while I was sitting at the navstation of the Bowman 57 Oriole as she dug in and started to heel assertively. A…
Sailing to Svalbard: Arctic archipelago yields up its stark beauty
“Congratulations, captain.” Dave McKay, one of our regular crew aboard Isbjörn, had those words for me as we dropped anchor at 77°N in Spitsbergen. We’d made it to the high…
Faeroes to Norway in a Wayfarer dinghy – Frank Dye’s extraordinary tale of sea survival
When I was a student in Liverpool in the mid-1960s, sailing the university’s Firefly dinghies when I ought to have been studying, the local hero was a young man called…
Off-piste sailing: serene rock-hopping footage from Kragero, Norway
Close encounters of the rocky kind are normally the stuff of sailors’ nightmares, but the unique glacial grooves cut into the coast of Norway have left something of a playground…
King Harald wins YW Round Antigua Race
In the prequel to Antigua Sailing Week, HM King Harald of Norway wins The Yachting World Round Antigua Trophy aboard Whisper
Adrian Flanagan sets sail for home
Adrian Flanagan begins the final leg of his 'vertical' circumnavigation 2/5/08
Popular Watski Skagerrak Twostar
150 boats entered in double-handed race along rocky Scandinavian coast
World champs add 49er European title
Spanish World Champions Iker Martinez and Xabier Fernandez triumphed in a tight finish in Grimstad, Norway at the 49er European Championship.
49er Europeans
GBR sailors Chris Draper/Simon Hiscocks and Paul Brotherton/Mark Asquith are currently lying in third and fourth places respectively at the 49er European championship in Norway