Bergen

25 July 2019

We finished our trip to Bergen and participated in the Tall Ships Festival. Today we had the Sail-Out and tomorrow the start of the race to Århus. But we leave the races and go our own way.

In Bergen we were all the way in the harbour at the fish market. During the Parade of Sail there is a certain order that the ships have to follow, and we had to wait after we casted off. This meant we had time to set as much sails as possible. Because we did this in the harbour there were lots of people standing at the quay watching us.

At the end of the Sail Out most ships set course south to the race start. But we set course north. With a variable wind mostly from the south we spend the afternoon sailing. We are now sailing along tons of islands and rocks up the coast. The plan is to visit Runde tomorrow to spot the many seabirds where the island is known for and then sail to Ålesund to spend the night.