North Sailing News

Over one night almost a meter thick layer of snow accumilated in Húsavík. This is the heaviest snowfall in one night for a long time. This snow will ensure us white christmas which is of course essential to enjoy the holidays to the full.

Back in 1997, North sailing bought the historical house “Hallandi”, located just off Husavik´s main road, with great views of the harbour and Skjalfandi bay. Last year the company started rebuilding the house and that way, guarantee its presence in the town for years to come.

Whales and dolphins come in all shapes and sizes. In this section you will find some amazing facts and figures about these incredible animals.

From www.wdcs.org

A group of lifeguards practising off Ocean Beach near Whangarei on New Zealand´s North Island have recently revealed how they were protected by a pod of bottlenose dolphins. The lifeguards reported that they spent approximately 40 minutes surrounded by the dolphins. It is believed that this altruistic behaviour was due to the presence of a 3 metre great white shark in the area. After herding the lifeguards together the dolphins continually circled around them, becoming more agitated and tail slapping as they went, while the shark approached as close as 2 metres to the swimmers. Eventually, the dolphins managed to ward off the shark and the lifeguards managed to swim the 100 meters safely back to shore.

Recently, people from North Sailing visited the famous expedition vessel Dagmar Aeen when she had just finished her record breaking journey around the North Pole.

Although North Sailing´s boats have been docked for the winter, the company´s staff has been busy preparing for the winter.

North Sailing´s scheduled whale watching trips are over for the 2004 season. The last trip was made Saturday 18th but due to bad weather, trips have been cancelled for the last 2 days.

This year, Vestnorden Travel Mart was held in Reykjavík, Iceland, on 13 - 15 September.

On the 10th of september, over 100 school children from Húsavík´s elementary school, Borgarhólsskóli, sailed with North Sailing across the bay and took land on in the mountains in Naustavík (Nausta-creek).

More pictures from Naustavík.

The Whale Watching season in Húsavík is nearing the end but still, every day so far in September, quite many travelers embark North Sailing´s tours.

This summer, quite many journalists and film crews have joined North Sailing on our whale watching tours. Yesterday, a film crew from BBC went out with one of our boats.

An exciting phenomena has been sighted floating around off the north cost of Iceland for the last days.

This summer, quite many sea-angling trips have been organised by North Sailing for groups, even though these trips are not on schedule.

This summer we have had the pleasure of having the Catalan marine zoologist Pere Morera as part of our crew. Pere´s area of expertise are marine mammals and he has been doing some research in Húsavík this summer.