Towards Northern Norway
Tomorrow we start out towards northern Norway! Finally, after all that repairing, upgrading and planing, tomorrow around lunch time we start our journey! And of course I made an accompanying video outlining my plan and giving a tour of the boat. So enjoy! Until next time a few nautical miles closer to the arctic circle!
Sleipner Side-Power SE50 Bow Thruster Review
At the start of this year I managed to install a bow thruster in our boat, namely the Sleipner SE50. I made a review of that product, which you can find in the video below. The whole process took about 2-3 weeks. Instead of a full blown tutorial I concentrated on the product review. There…
How to Test a Depth Transducer on Land
I installed a new depth transducer in Syvsover and wanted to test if it works before the boat goes back into the water. Neither the transducer manual nor the instrument describes any testing procedure on land so I tried another method which I describe in the video.
Saildrive Anodes & Galvanic Corrosion
When I took our boat on land for some maintenance I found that the anodes on the saildrive were used up very unevenly. The anode on the saildrive looked almost new but the one on the propeller was completely gone. I suspected a fault of some kind here and started “troubleshooting”. But after reading up…
Boat Heating
After the old heater broke for good I decided to install a newer version of the Eberspächer M10 in Syvsover. While doing that I also rerouted some of the heating flow to get hot water without using the engine. I outlined the whole process in the following video. As promised in the video, here the…
Splicing Cheap Rope
In the past I sometimes had difficulties splicing double braided ropes. Especially the ones which were rather cheap when I bought them. Milking back the cover into the core after creating the eye was impossible even when using excessive force on a winch. I tried a lot of different techniques and finally found two methods…
Lifejacket and PLB for Solo Sailing
I made a video on how to integrate an Ocean Signal rescueMe PLB1 into a Spinlock Deckvest 6D. I got both items in preparation for more solo sailing this winter and the coming year and they seem to work fine together. For this topic I decided to try a new format, i.e., video. Hope you…
Haugesund and Back
Two friends of mine, Diego and Pelayo, and I planned to sail to either Germany or Denmark (depending on the corona situation) some time ago. Before venturing on such a trip, and especially crossing of the North Sea, we decided to trial Syvsover together on something a bit shorter, i.e., sailing to either Haugesund or…
First Overnight Trip
Finally there was an opportunity for us to go on an overnight trip. The weather was forecast to be excellent (not enough wind for sailing though), and I planned for going in a northerly direction. Studying different sources for suitable anchoring spots I looked forward to explore a place called Uttoskavågen, a natural port protected…
Whitsunday to Skjelanger
Recently we had some friends visiting from Oslo, the weather was finally getting nice (about time at the end of May). We decided to make a day-trip, heading to the northern parts of Askøy where there are several nice mooring options, especially one of them, which Laila and I investigated on an earlier trip. We…
Day Trip to Midtre Rotøyna
Yesterday we had a nice trip to Midtre Rotøyna, which is located west of Askøy right below Hanøy. My parents-in-law told us they were going to go there with their boat Maja and see if it is a viable place to collect cockles, and we decided to tag along in our own boat. The trip…
Some Needed Maintenance
As mentioned in the post before there were some items which I wanted to have fixed right away. It is still winter and not the best weather to get out anyways. But also not too pleasant to work on a boat either. Space on dry land is quite limited in our harbor, the nice thing…
Bringing It Home
So I bought the boat, now it was time to get it into its home berth. Having so little experience on boats in general, let alone navigating one that I don’t know for the first time on my own was obviously out of the question. In need for somebody experienced, both with navigating the Norwegian…
Found a Boat
Or better yet, I bought one. But lets start from the beginning. For some time now I own a berth in a nearby marina. They are hard to come by, especially if you want them at a reasonable price and close to where you live. So when the opportunity arose I took a leap of…
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