North Sailing News

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.

North Sailing´s newest boat, Hildur, sailed off to Denmark on August 31st where she´ll be converted into a two mast schooner this winter.

The sun is shining again and our boats are out on the bay searching for whales again.

The past two days have been very bad for whale watching. The strong winds from the North have stopped us from going out to sea altogether.

The Marine Research Institute of Iceland just reported on their webpage that they have been tracking a blue whale that was tagged in Skjálfandi Bay earlier this summer.

Like in the last days the minke whales are playing the main role in the bay.

This morning our North Sailing boat, schooner Haukur reported some exciting news to the rest of the fleet: "Some BIG whales out on the horizon north west of Puffin island!"