This is now my fourth season as a whale watching guide at North Sailing‘s. Of course all of the summers have been great, plenty of whales and the success rate probably among the highest one can find worldwide. The seasons have been somewhat different from each others, for example, last year was truly the year…
DetailsOn June 18th, 2011 the North Sailing peer looked like a German car factory from the mid last century. Yes, it sounds weird but no less than 27 old Volkswagens gathered there with 54 people in their seats. All 54 then went whale watching and left their cars for other tourists and the locals to…
DetailsAugust 21st: News from Schooner Hildur at N71°16’ W25°12′ “We arrived at Sydkap this morning and have been slightly delayed due to ice on the fjord. We have already caught some fish which will end up on tonight´s BBQ at Jytteshavn, Bear islands. We´ve already spotted a Muskox, Seals and a few Snow hares. The…
DetailsThe last tours going out with our schooner Haukur, to observe the amazing puffins in the Puffin island and going whale watching, had great luck and great fun today! Always on the last tour of the season the experienced guide and boatsman of Haukur, Nils Bjartur, has a tradition of making the tour a little…
DetailsSchooner Hildur arrived in Scoresby Sund last night. The sailing was smooth until they reached Cape Brewster and ice was blocking their way. They sailed further north and managed to work their way through the ice and enter the fjord close to cape Tobin. When navigating through the ice, the crew…
DetailsThis morning was a little foggy, but during the day it lightened up and the sun started shining. I went on two tours today and both tours were very successful. We spotted white beaked dolpins, a minke whale and some incredably calm humpback whales that swam around us and were kind of curious about our…
DetailsThe last few weeks have been absolutely amazing whalewise. We have had lots of humpback whales, minke whales, white-beaked dolphins and we even had a blue whale coming into the bay for one day. The humpbacks are of course one of the best whales for watching, being calm, easy to approach, occasionaly curious and raising…
DetailsLast night Hildur departed for Greenland after a long preperation. The boat was on schedule and the crew was enthusiastic to get going. It was already getting dark when the boat left the harbour after the final goodbyes. One of our schooner deckhands was there with a camera and snapped some pictures. The boat…
DetailsThe first reason North Sailing’s owners bought Knörrinn, the first boat, was the preservation of old Icelandic fishing vessels; many of which lay rotting in harbours all around Iceland. As beautiful as the boats look today most of them were in bad condition when North Sailing bought them and it took a lot of work…
DetailsToday the weather was really bad out on Skjálfandi bay, and by bad, I mean bad. On the 10 o´clock tour we still managed to see three species, but on the 13:30 tour we were surpriced by a bigger friend of ours, the Big Blue. We had spotted a very high spout in a distance…
DetailsToday North Sailing owns and operates 6 boats. All of them are traditional Icelandic fishing boats, they are all oak boats, built in the 60’s and 70’s. Knörrinn is the oldest one, built in 1963 and is also the first boat North Sailing bought. First years of Whale Watching The Story Two…
DetailsThe weather forecast for Monday, August 15th is relatively good so hopefully we´ll be able to sail out at 08:50 and 10:00 o´clock, and according to schedule after that. For information and booking, please contact us via e-mail; info@northsailing.is or phone: +354 464 7272. NSO-1 Ólafsfjörður Whale Watching, will however, be closed for…
DetailsIn passing weeks we had two special guests going out whale watching on our boats. Anna Floistrup (Denmark) was a really enthusiastic whale watcher and wanted to try all of our different boats so she went for SEVEN trips in just a few days! Here is Anna happy onboard Schooner Haukur: A…
DetailsYesterday evening I went on the last evening tour of the summer. It was a fantastic and very romantic tour. We had to go a long way to find whales, but when we did we were surrounded by them. There were about five humpback whales and at least four minke whales. And at one point…
DetailsI just came in to work again yesterday, I had been abroad doing some other personal stuff. I had two trips yesterday and two today. And what a joy it was. The weather is just perfect, whales everywhere and the North Sailing crew has never been more qualified over all, since I started working here…
DetailsThis morning was cold and the waves were high, but there were a lot of whales in the bay. We found three or four humpback whales and around five minke whales. One of the humpbacks was incredibly calm and relaxed around us and came up really close to our boat, only 2-3 meters from the…
DetailsRunning a business, whether it is a whale watching company or a restaurant is kind of moot if nobody notices and so we have signs to point the way. At North Sailing and the connected companies we have lot’s of interesting signs to point peoples way towards our many establishments. A good sign does more…
DetailsPreperations for Hildur’s trip to Greenland have begun and everything is on schedule according to the crew. This will be the first time North Sailing will be doing this trip with passengers but last year a crew from North Sailing did a similar trip to check on conditions and prepare for the trip they are…
DetailsToday was pretty cold but the whales didn’t seem to mind and were staying on the western side of the bay. We found a minke whale on our way over there but unfortunately couldn’t find it again after it went down for a deep dive. We kept going and found a humpback whale on the…
DetailsToday I went on two tours on our biggest boat, Garðar, at 10:00 and 13:30. Both tours were a great success with several humpback and minke whales as well as white-beaked dolphins being spotted on both tours. But the second tour was really unique. I went out together with Þorbjörg and we took turns with…
DetailsThis morning we left the harbour at 11:00 onboard the sailing schooner Haukur. I had already been guiding on Haukur several times last year, but it was the first time for me this season, so I was looking forward to the tour. I went out with captain Heimir and we set the course north-west into…
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