Time has flown ... i can't believe that almost a year has passed since my last blog entry. if anything, it proves that i've been busy, and haven't been traveling much. the only traveling i've done has been a couple of trips home to stavanger and working my ass off this summer for hurtigruten on ms nordnorge. in case you have no idea what ms nordnor

Tanna in vanuatu is all about the volcano, so needless to say when we were there, we were all about the volcano. it was awesome. we spend an entire afternoon and an hour after dark witnessing the fury of the volcano. it is amazing. anywhere else on the planet we wouldn't have been allowed as close, but on tanna: no problem, but look up for falling

I started this blog almost 2 months ago. normally 2 months of silence would indicate that maybe i had gotten second thoughts ... or even given up. leaving this as one of the many 1 post blogs you find around. this is luckily not the case, as i have been planning, thinking, dreaming and talking to people about the sailing project. most importantly i

Bora bora has been amazing. the image above is from a hike we did to the top of the 2nd tallest mountain on the atoll/island. i'm holding bret and chad off broken compass's huskie makai. here are my feelings after getting to the top after what was a relatively strenuous hike: behind me on the next picture you see the tallest mountain ... so close,

When we sailed away from tonga the plan was to sail straight to tanna in vanuatu. that did not happen, because the winds abandoned us 20 nm away from the lau islands (part of fiji) a full 700 nm away from vanuatu. being a bit unorthodox, i decided to put in a highly illegal stop at the ongea atoll, because it seemed uninhabited in the guides i had.

The trip from niue to tonga was a fast one. our stay on tonga was almost faster. it basically boiled down to hanging out in vava'u for a couple of days, before we did a couple of cave dives and then sailed on for vanuatu. the reason for this sudden increased pace is that i got accepted to a maritime school in bodø in norway ... and it started 3 we

A lot has happened since my last post. this is not surprising, as i have done a lot since then: first of all i went sailing in the first week of october on the very fp athena 38 that made me think about catamarans in the first place. since october i have been a 100% committed catamaran convert. i was fairly sure before then, but now i am 100%. afte

After an awesome time with the volcano on tanna it was time to lift anchor and move on. we had a really nice sail to new caledonia, where we sailed straight to noumea. we had planned to see more than just noumea, but ended up staying there until we cast off for australia. why did we stay? … well, it is a great place to socialize. we met several f

3 months has passed since i last wrote. much has happened since then. i spent february and march planning like normal: talking back and forth with hans lange at lange maritime, working out the details for the brand new ovni 395 i wanted to buy. the plan was to spend this year working out the details and buy it next year. sounds simple? … it could

We've clocked in to the new year and at the moment of writing we now have 2 years 11 months 11 days 6 hours 37 minutes and 18 seconds before 2010 is upon us. i've looked at the things i need to do and then started counting backwards. the plan is to start the circumnavigation in 2010. prior to that i want to have sailed the boat for a year, giving m