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And we’re off! See you later Shetland...next stop, Arctic Norway 🇳🇴 in about 600 miles! 🤙 🌊 ⛵️ #offshoresailing #feelalive #isbjornsailing #sailing
They say it’s bad luck to whistle on a sailboat, but jeeze, it was just so nice today sailing from Fair Isle to Lerwick that @schell_andy couldn’t help himself! #isbjornsailing #sailing #whistlingforwind #offshoresailing #fairisle #visitshetland
PUFFINS!!! Puffin party happened at 9pm last night on the cliffs above North Haven, literally about a 3 minute walk from Isbjorn. When I told the crew we’d be able to sit on the grass & hang out with the puffins they didn’t really believe me. But that’s Fair Isle for you! This place is magical and these little birds are SO stinkin’ CUTE! #puffinparty #puffinpatrol #fairisle #boatlife #sailing #isbjornsailing #pocketpenguin @psychedelicsteve Check our Mia’s #puffinpatrol hat, with PUFFINS! @linda_hammarberg we spent two nights here in a flat calm ;) @letyourlifespeak11 you’d have died & gone to puffin heaven!
Isbjorn & the ‘Good Shepherd,’ Fair Isle’s maritime link with Shetland, tied up alongside in North Haven. We have the harbor to ourselves. This is our 2nd time here in as many years, and if it’s possible, almost MORE magical than it was the first time around. #puffinpatrol #isbjornsailing #sailing #fairisle #feelalive #visitshetland #puffins
Fair Isle today, high seas & bound towards Arctic Norway 🇳🇴 tomorrow! Isbjorn crew for this passage includes Laura, the Dempster brothers Tom & Dick, and our first Aussie crew Rick! G’day Rick! #offshoresailing #feelalive #sailing #puffinpatrol #arcticbound #isbjornsailing
Excited to once again make landfall in Fair Isle. Had a very pleasant trip up from Kirkwall today with light wind and blue sky! What a start to the trip! #isbjornsailing #fairisle #puffinpatrol
New crew have arrived & Isbjorn will be bound towards magical Fair Isle in t-minus 60 minutes! #puffinpatrol #isbjornsailing #sailing #offshoresailing
Surf’s up 🏄 in the North Sea 🌊 for @benidoerr! #offshoresailing #feelalive #isbjornsailing #sailing #surfsup #schralpthegnar
The #fushing boats at sunset in Kirkwall. #fushingindustry #visitorkney #isbjornsailing #boatlife
Peaceful twilight here in Kirkwall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Just love that the sunsets get so stretched out here up north. It’s 10:15pm! This is just the start. Each day and each mile north they’ll get longer & longer until the sun simply will not set. We’ve never experienced that before. But in due time...for now, just enjoying this moment. #isbjornsailing #sailing #visitscotland #boatlife #sunset #dockside (@letyourlifespeak11 don’t think for a second I don’t believe Mom had a hand in this one...)
Land Ho! A happy crew despite the hour (0400) as we dropped anchor in Orkney last week after 600 miles across the North Sea. It was sad to see Brian, Sophie, Susan, Ben & Rob go back to their ‘real lives’ this week, but they’ve left their mark on Isbjorn. In a few days, the next crew will join us for the 800-mile sail into Arctic Norway 🇳🇴! Gosh I love this job! #isbjornsailing #boatlife #visitscotland #sailing #sailingfriends #isbjorncrew #offshoresailing #visitorkney #feelalive
Exploring new places is SO much more satisfying after having SAILED there across the North Sea! Orkney delivered a gorgeous day on Thursday for a lap around Mainland with some of the crew! 1-10: Stromness Harbour 🐟 // Orkney Brewery //🍻// Chillin’ with the 🐑// 🐧 Patrol // Scara Brae // Ben’s Mini 🚌 // Falconry🦉// 💥 // Ring of Brognar. #isbjornsailing #boatlife #visitscotland #visitorkney #sailing #landfall #offshoresailing #fush #fushing #thefushingindustry
DOLPHINS! 🐬 North Sea dolphins spent an afternoon escorting us towards Orkney! They’re bigger than your standard ‘Flipper’ bottlenose, & with beautiful black and white markings, almost like an Orca. Rob & Susan got up close with them on the bow. #isbjornsailing #sailing #offshoresailing #feelalive #boatlife
Moonrise over the islands as we made landfall in Orkney. 🌚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #isbjornsailing #boatlife #sailing #offshoresailing #landfall
Another sunny day on the North Sea, ripping off the miles towards Orkney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. #isbjornsailing #isbjornfreighttrain #sailing #boatlife #offshoresailing #feelalive #hellyhansen
The faces of seasickness 🤢 as demonstrated by @benidoerr & @sophie_darsy en route to Skagen 🇩🇰. “I leaned forward to just EASE the mainsail...even that was too much movement & ... 🤮!” As they say, seasickness will make you FEEL like you’re dying, it’ll make you WANT to die, but you WON’T actually die ;) Ben & Sophie opted for a scopolamine patch for the North Sea crossing proper & both came back to life! (Don’t miss Brian in the background, smiling & having a great time!) #boatlife #isbjornsailing #seasick #offshoresailing #northsea #sailing
Landfall in Orkney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 around 0300, Tuesday May 7. I always forget that we’re in the UK 🇬🇧, but on the same latitude as Stockholm 🇸🇪. It gets light out EARLY! Still needed a headlamp though to read the pilot book sailing into Deer Sound where we dropped anchor amongst a half dozen friendly seals and watched the sun come up over a wee dram 🥃 to celebrate our arrival! #isbjornsailing #boatlife #offshoresailing #sailing #visitscotland #visitorkney 📷 @sophie_darsy @ryan_and_sophie_sailing
Isbjorn crossed tracks in the North Sea 🌊 near the south tip of Norway with Norway’s 🇳🇴 traditional square rigger, the ‘Christian Radich’, the country’s sail training ship, built 1937. We were Orkney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 bound while they were Oslo 🇳🇴 bound. #christianradich #isbjornsailing #boatlife #sailing #oldschool #woodenshipsironmen #tallships
The North Sea has a gnarly reputation, but it can look like this too! ☀️ 🌊 @susan.e.chamberlin driving Isbjorn into the sunset & towards Orkney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #isbjornsailing #sailing #offshoresailing #feelalive #hellyhansen #shesailing
Dropped the anchor at 0300 this morning in Orkney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 just as the very first light of dawn cracked the horizon in the east. Time for a whisky 🥃 to toast our landfall! #isbjornsailing #feelalive #boatlife #rocnaanchors #arcticbound #sailing
 
 

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