Northsailing News

According The Daily Telegraph, Iceland is among the 10 best whale watching destinations worldwide. The North Sailing speciality, beautifully restored fishing vessels are mentioned and a link is given to North Sailing's partner for 15 years, Discover the world in the UK.

Through the years, some foreigners have been working as tour guide‘s for North Sailing and majority of them are from Germany. Usually they have joined the company after been working for the Whale Museum for one or more season and got to know the operation by going out with our boats, doing research for the museum.

One of the whale species to be seen during summer time in Skjalfandi Bay is the majestic Humpback whale. In the past years the sightings of Humbacks has increased. Now it is one of he most likely to be seen whale during our tours.

Work continues in the shipyard in Egernsund where schooner Hildur is in the making.

The construction work in Gardar has been successful since new year, and non unforeseen problems have come up.

Work on Hildur is proceeding nicely in C.J. Skibs- og Bådebyggeri shipyard in Egernsund, Denmark.

As the Icelandic team is now leaving Egernsund for Húsavík, Schooner Hildur sees a turning point in her life.

For the past few days there have been up to 10 men working on Garðar in Húsavík harbour.

The last few weeks 4 Icelanders have been staying in Egernsund in Denmark, near the German borders in order to work on North Sailing's schooner to be

North Sailing has been nominated for the Icelandic Tourist Board´s  Environmental Awards 2009.

If everything goes as planned, North Sailing will welcome two new boats in their fleet in spring of 2010.

Restoration of our 109 ton boat Garðar is in full swing.

The 2009 season is soon coming to an end and from October 1st - 20th we´ll have one daily departure at 10:00.

Hildur came to port in Egernsund this morning and the journey was overall very successful. / Hildur kom til Egernsund í morgun og gekk ferðin á heildina litið vel.