North Sailing News

In light of Iceland’s minister of fisheries decision to resume commercial whaling, North-Sailing would like to put forward its own point of view:

Last Monday morning, schooner Haukur sailed gracefully under full sails into Husavik harbour after having circumnavigated Iceland for the first time.

The trip took altogether 24 days but that includes shorter and longer stops such as a week in Siglufjörður and 8 days in Reykjavík. The schooner stopped in 6 harbours around the island and those were, Siglufjörður, Ísafjörður, Bolungarvík, Ólafsvík, Reykjavík and Vestmannayjar.

Today, schooner Haukur was sailing just outside Breiðdalsvík in the East Fjords on her way to Húsavík. We expect Haukur to dock in Húsavík around noon tomorrow (mon Oct. 2nd) and thereby closing the voyage around Iceland.

Haukur left Húsavík harbour on september 8th and has stopped in several ports around Iceland including Siglufjörður, Íslafjörður, Bolungarvík, Ólafsvík, Reykjavík and the Westman islands.

We´ll post some further details about the voyage shortly.

ÞH