Following a wonderful time exploring Bergen and Hardangerfjord, it was time to make our way south. Except for a short period of time between Hardangerfjord and Stavanger, most of our time along the SW shore of Norway is in the North Sea. Westerlies are the prevailing winds in the North Sea during the summer, and […]

We’ve had a great month of good weather, sailing across the North Sea, and exploring Bergen, Norway and Hardangerfjord. North Sea Crossing Bergen, Norway is about 200 miles due east of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands. We (friends Curt and Meg with us) waited several days for favorable winds, picking our “weather window.” We motored

We’ve had a busy month. We were almost ready to post this a couple of weeks ago, and then our friends/crew, Megumi Ishiyama & Curt Feldman from Osaka, Japan (formerly from Hawai’i) joined us and then we didn’t spend any real time working on our laptops. This post covers the final month of our time

This is a “clickable” map showing this leg of our sailing. If you click on this map, you can zoom in and out and see different perspectives of this region. You can also shift to the Google Earth view : A couple of points to explain some odd tracks in our route: You’ll see we

After a week of cold, rainy, and windy weather in Tarbert, we were able to set sail (or motor-sail) and get on with exploring west Scotland. From Tarbert we went to Campbeltown near the SE corner of the Kintyre peninsula. This positioned us for rounding the Mull of Kintyre (required careful timing with the weather

We enjoyed our week in Largs and we were excited to go to Tarbert on 28 May. We had a nice sail to Tarbert, and then the weather turned. Currently we are waiting for a weather window when we can leave this very well-protected harbor to sail south to Campbelltown and then around the Mull

Honolulu to Scotland: A Scenic Route 1 May – 27 May, 2025 We departed Honolulu on 1 May and went to Boston to see Adam’s sister, Karla, and her husband Roger. Adam’s other sister, Julie (from Dallas), joined us there, as did Adam’s stepbrother, Jay and his wife (from New York), and cousin Ted and

Or, What we are doing in the off-season of cruising. Before Returning to Honolulu As noted in a previous post, we put the boat away earlier than planned due to cold and stormy weather. It was a relief to know the boat was out of the water and safely stored indoors for the winter months

Largs, Firth of Clyde After our lovely anchorage at the north end of the Kyles of Bute, we headed back across (southeast) the Firth of Clyde to Largs Yacht Haven for protection from the next bout of heavy weather. We made friends with a cruising couple from Germany who also own a Hallberg-Rassy (25-year-old HR!).

Holy Loch We enjoyed being on a mooring ball and hanging out in Millport, but it was time to go to a marina because the weather was about to turn. We went up a small loch to Holy Loch. The passage from Millport to Holy Loch was like a game of “dodge ’em” with ferries