08.45 Local Time | Hjellestad, Norway
At the dock
The crew on the women’s sail training on Isbjorn is settling into a great routine for managing the boat and life onboard. We left Bergen practicing leaving a crowded dock in a busy harbor. We raised the main and sailed west toward Knarrvika. We tacked south with one reef in the main and two in the Genoa. We started to come together as a working crew with lots of controlled tacks. We had periods of sun and low wind and then higher wind and rain. Typical for Norway :)
We spent the night near Hjellestad. More great practice setting dock lines. We sighted a helicopter training exercise in the Raunefjorden. Amazing skills!!
Michele Charriez
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The basics
Somewhere northwest of Hawaii, Nordic Falken is locked in a relentless close reach—the kind of sailing that makes brushing your teeth feel like a philosophical crisis. The crew is pushing through fatigue, soaked clothes, and the slow realization that the tropics are well and truly behind them. But the high pressure is closing in, and with it, the promise of eased sails and something resembling normal human existence.
Pacific pace
Somewhere north of O'ahu, with the wind finally in their favor, ten strangers became something harder to define. Falken is moving fast across the Pacific — crew from every walk of life finding their footing, their rhythm, and each other. The passage has barely begun, and it's already delivering.
24 hours of resilience
Thirty knots of wind, a 2.7-metre cross swell, and a crew being pushed to their limits — the first 24 hours aboard Falken have been anything but gentle. Seasickness has taken its toll, but the boat keeps moving, carving north toward calmer conditions. Last night, between the chaos, the Milky Way stretched clear across the sky.