7th Edition Updates #1

by phyllis on May 8, 2013 · 0 comments

Updates-BannerHow great is this! During the summer we’ll post updates to the Guide as we receive them. That way you’ll get them when they are most worthwhile—while you’re out cruising versus in the middle of winter.

If you wish to be notified when we post, just click on the red bar at the top of the screen. And continue to send in updates as you get them, that way fellow voyagers can benefit from what you’ve learned.

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Don’t Be The Guest of Honour

by phyllis May 5, 2013
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My Little Norway, a blog I follow, posted the other day on the tongue-in-cheek reaction of foreign news sites to the job posting for a polar bear spotter in Svalbard.

A Nice Review

by phyllis May 4, 2013

Over the years we have pared our subscriptions to sailing magazines down to two: Practical Sailor and Ocean Navigator. We feel these two are the only magazines left that haven’t sold out to the advertisers and that provide content that is relevant to people actually out there cruising. So it was a pleasant surprise when [...]

A Preview of Norway

by phyllis April 25, 2013
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Looking to get a quick taste of what cruising Norway will be like? One fun way is to watch the videos made by Paul and Sheryl Shard, Canadian cruisers who produce Distant Shores, a TV show of their travels.

The 7th Edition Is Done!

by phyllis April 22, 2013

Yippee! Yahoo! The 7th Edition is done and available for purchase right here. We’ve really enjoyed preparing this edition for publication and we’re also really enjoying being done!

Nautisk Fritid

by phyllis April 15, 2013
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Until recently, Nautisk Forlag was the largest purveyor of Scandinavian charts and cruising guides in Norway, and in previous editions of the Guide we recommended them as the place to get Scandinavian charts and publications. However, this past year they decided to get out of the retail business, so they shut down their online business [...]

Stattlandet

by phyllis April 2, 2013
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Notorious headland Stattlandet (NCG, Sognefjorden to Kristiansund) is an obstacle that all mariners have to round if heading to Ålesund and points north. Since the late 1800s, there have been intermittent rumblings that a tunnel should be built through the isthmus behind the headland. As we are talking about a tunnel big enough for ships, [...]

We’re Getting There

by phyllis March 19, 2013
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We’ve reached the home stretch on the 7th Edition of the Guide:

Living in North Norway

by phyllis February 17, 2013
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The two winters that John and I spent aboard our sailboat Morgan’s Cloud above the Arctic Circle in Tromsø, Norway is one of the highlights of our cruising life. Living through the darktime, experiencing Norwegian cultural traditions (especially the culinary ones!), making lifelong friends…it was a magic two years.

Back In The Saddle

by phyllis February 11, 2013
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John Wayne said, “Courage is being scared to death—and saddling up anyway.” Well, we feel a bit like that now that we are back at work on the 7th Edition of the Norwegian Cruising Guide after our unexpected 3 month hiatus—due, as I’m sure most of you know, to John’s broken femur. We’ve done a lot of work [...]

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