North Sailing News

In the final days before Christmas our webpage’s newsmonger took a stroll to the harbor and watched with interest while some North Sailing employees were at work.

Recently, several employees of North Sailing have been busy restoring the new workshop at Höfðaver, both internally and externally.

As already mentioned in our latest news, one of North Sailing’s boats, Náttfari is being restored this winter.

This summer, North Sailing opened a branch office in the heart of Reykjavík, Austurstræti 17.

The newsmonger was visiting the capital last week and thought it ideal to visit one of North Sailing’s employee, Þórdís Jóhannesdóttir.

The oil tanks have been emptied and cleaned, the gearbox, the steering gear, the axle and propeller have been removed and taken to the workshop for inspection and revision.

North Sailing is very focused on recycling and re-use of every kind of metal or woods possible.

The gearbox of Náttfari was hauled out and transported to the workshop for revision

In the past weeks some of North Sailing‘s staff have been working on the new timber workshop in Höfðaver, installing a ventilated room for oil and varnish work.

A hole was cut on the starboard side to extract the broken Cummins engine out of the engine room

Two boats, Bjössi Sör and Náttfari have now been moved to the shipyard for restauration and makeover

On June 19, the engine of Náttfari, one of North Sailing‘s most important boats broke down.

Our whale watching season 2010 has come to an end ....

The past days have been really good; good weather and good whales. On Saturday three humback whales were seen along with two minkes and yesterday our guide, Christian, describes the trip so:

On the 18th of August 2010 the schooner Hildur set sail from Húsavík, Iceland on it’s journey to  the east coast of Greenland.  Captain and expedition leader was Heimir Harðarson and most of the crew were employees of North-Sailing.  The destination of the journey was Scoresby Sound which extends about 350 km into the coastline and is considered to be the longest and largest fjord in the world.