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Passage logs
Hat overboard!
2026-2A | ISBJORN | Women's Sail Training Camp
On June 4, we reviewed our passage plan before our departure from the marina in Hjellested.
Departure from Bergen!
2026-2A | ISBJORN | Women's Sail Training Camp
The crew on the women’s sail training on Isbjorn is settling into a great routine for managing the boat and life onboard.
The sun sets on another journey
2026-6 | FALKEN | Tahiti-Bora Bora Cruising
The hardest part of sailing across French Polynesia wasn't the night watches, the heat, or the open ocean — it was the prospect of being trapped on a small boat with a group of strangers. First-timer Natalie boards as a self-described land crab and discovers that the sea has a way of reshaping both your sea legs and your assumptions. What follows is dolphins, sharks, the Milky Way in full technicolour, and a crew that somehow made the whole thing better than she ever imagined.