The Search

Trip #5 began with much anticipation…we tried really hard to locate the Minke-Whale we have seen yesterday…the weather was again “Icelandic” but it shows that our “April-passengers” are well aware of the weather conditions in this time of the year. All well prepared clothing-wise we headed out and faced the cold wind and drizzle. This…

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Hurray!

Trip #4… In good spirit on our trustworthy KNÖRRINN we saild out again. The weather still cold, a bit rainy, and very, very Icelandic:-) Passengers dressed well for the weather and were also provided of course with our Overalls and rain-coats. Once again a cold wid in the face we headed out and it took…

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On we go…

The 3rd trip of th season…the weather has changed. it is getting more windy and colder again. well, just a typical Icelandic April:-) Today we used our good old boat KNÖRRINN for the first time again. To the delight ofg our passengers, once again a larger group of Harbor Porpoises were showing up, quite nicely…

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Season start 2012

The first tour of the season was on April 2nd. The weather was beautiful but really cold with some fresh snow around and a couple of minus centigrades. The second tour was today and the weather was a little bit milder and the sea was quite flat. We sailed out across the bay towards the…

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A succsessful introduction tour

Recently North Sailing, in cooperation with Fjallasýn and Eagle Air offered introduction tour for 16 travel agents from Reykjavík. The reason was the upcoming flight schedule of Eagle Air which kicks off on April 15th. See further information on combo tours this upcoming season: Edge of the Arctic with Eagle Air

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GEO's photo of the day

A photo from North Sailing’s Greenland tour has been chosen the readers’ photo of the day at GEO magazine in Germany. The photo is taken by captain Heimir on his tour to Greenland in 2010 and shows Schooner Hildur by this amazing glacier in Scoresby Sound fjord.     For the original news click here.

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Mid Atlantic Seminar & Trade Show

The Mid-Atlantic Seminar & Trade Show, organised by the airline Icelandair, was held in Reykjavík in early February. It is an annual key event in tourism and offers the ideal setting for travel industry professionals from around the globe to meet, work together and exchange ideas. Conveniently located in Iceland, midway between Europe and North…

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Happy new year!

The whole staff of North Sailing would like to wish everyone a very Happy & Prosperous New Year! Let us all hope that 2012 is a great year for the Whales & Marine Life we love and respect so much !  

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Mark Carwardine is inspired by Iceland

Zoologist Mark Carwardine is an award winning writer, media personality and wildlife photographer who visited us last summer. We are honoured to post this interview on our page and hope this will “inspire” you to join North Sailing for a magical whale watching trip! Zoologist Mark Carwardine is an award winning writer, media personality and…

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Autumn works

Our webpage’s newsmonger is on duty again and will during the winter report regularly what is happening within North Sailing during the winter, so keep posted !!!   North Sailing’s boat fleet is now being moved to the shipyard for it’s yearly restoration and makeover.   Stefán Gunnarsson and Garðar are renewing the heating system…

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Season 2011 has come to an end

Ahoy!   A very successful 2011 season has come to an end. In general, this was probably one of the most exciting seasons of the company´s 17 seasons so far! We had all of our 6 beautiful oak boats in full operation going on very diverse tours; from the 3 hour Original Whale Watching, to…

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Humpbacks and minkes still around

Both yesterday and today we have seen two species of baleen whales, the humpback whale and the minke whale. On yesterday’s tour we first saw a minke whale and got some really nice views at it, before we continued sailing and trying to find the humpback whales, that we had seen a couple of days…

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Sailing again!

Today we went out at 10 o´clock after two days of bad weather. There are southerly winds in the charts until Sunday afternoon so hopefully we´ll be able to take out adventerous passengers to see the whales in Skjálfandi Bay during the next days.   We´ll post some news about today´s tour later today.  …

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The Humpbacks are back!

We went out this morning into the area where we had seen a minke whale yesterday, but even though we were scanning the area carefully, there was no sign of the minke. So we decided to sail a bit further out and that paid off!   From a distance we saw first one, and then…

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Dolphin day in Skjálfandi Bay

The tour this morning was quite similar to the tour yesterday, there was still a lot of life in the bay. Just a few minutes after we left the harbour, captain Már spotted the first black dorsal fin of a dolphin. In the beginning we were wondering why this dolphin was travelling alone, but soon…

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Minkes and dolphins

We left the harbour at 10:00 this morning in hope to find the humpback whale again. We did not find the humpback whale again on this tour, but found several minke whales and also some nice white-beaked dolphins. The weather conditions were also pretty nice so all in all it was a nice tour.  …

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Successful afternoon trip

We didn’t go out this morning at 10:00 because of bad weather. But regarding to the weather forecast there was less wind in the afternoon, so we decided to give it a try and sailed out at 13:30. So I left the harbour together with captain Hrólfur and 30 passengers on „Bjössi Sör“.   There…

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