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Do you like our title for this episode? Make sure to thank our Patrons who picked it out for us! Join our Patreon family today and maybe YOU will be naming one of our future episodes! https://www.patreon.com/mjsailing We've arrived to Lovund, aka Puffi...

We decide to try jigging for the first time and came away with quite the prize for our efforts!! This week's episode follows us on what starts out as a typical travel day down the coast of Norway...route planning, destination information and weather forec...

Would you ever sail your boat through a tidal current that can reach over 20 knots? Get even MORE of our story at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mjsailing While in the town of Bodø, Norway, we hop on a bus to visit the fastest tidal current in the wo...

Sadly, it's time to leave Lofoten, but our exciting journey is nowhere near finished. And as we make the overnight sail to Bodo, we also discover that although the sun may have set on us for a few hours, it never gets dark up here. Leaving at 10 pm, we s...

What's it like to live a board sail above the Arctic Circle through the whole winter? The whale watching is great and there's lots of humpbacks and orcas.

If there were ever the most idyllic and picture perfect spot on earth, this would be it! This is by far one of the most beautiful spots we've ever traveled and it felt like the scenery around us MUST be painted in because there is no way it could be real....

After having just landed in the Arctic, we woke up on our first day in Værøy, ready to climb some mountains...except our clear skies disappeared on us. Thick fog had rolled into the harbour, and even though sea level was still clear, we knew we would no...

We accomplished our first goal of sailing from Florida to Norway and next it was time to check off our next goal of getting to the Arctic Circle. Listed as any latitude above 66°33′47.8″N, we knew we could have made it this far north without checking...

We sail on to Norway, then along the Norwegian coast to the fjords above the Arctic Circle. I spent the spring refitting s/y Sylvia and finally moving aboard.

You can't always see the beauty each country has to offer by staying close to shore. Sometimes the best things are just a little further inland. While the boat sits in a marina in Ålesund, Norway, we rent a car for the day to explore the mountains, wate...

There is one spot in Norway infamous for bad weather...heavy winds and seas. Our next step was to get around it. Not being familiar with the area or knowing what to expect, we'd heard from enough people to take caution here that we wanted to listen. Wai...

We had that pesky little problem that we sailed into Norway without being able to visit a customs agent, so in this week's episode we make another day passage up to the town of Florø. Here we make a visit to the police station to clear in, which means we...