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11. Juni 2022

Faroe Islands

SV Johanna, was built in Sussex, England in 1884 and was sold to Vágur ten years later. She was in very bad shape and the people of Vagur restored her to a trasure

Just an hour later he took us on a short sail with a local school class. They are all well used to the ocean and it was a lot of fun.

Overtaken by a rowing boat

The next day a strom passed with up to 77kn (way more than 12Bft). Gudmundur is also chief of the fire station and took us with his car to show us "his" place

Stormy sea, not a good time to be out there

In the old days they went out fishing, trough the skerries

The wind blowing the waterfalls upwards

Visiting the fire station. The old truck - sometimes working better than the new trucks. Sometimes they have difficult missions with carfires in the long and steep tunnels belwow the sea

Gudmundur is already it's chief for more than 20 years. He leads also the search and rescue operations on the sea.

Houses for the fishing boats to protect them. In the wintertime they have winds up to 145kn (270km/h)

Old fishing knives

One of the few lovely days

Hiking over the ridges - fog coming and going

Looking for a less swampy path. Leonie, the skipper of the well known SY Passage joined us. Danielle and her knew each other in childhood...

Trying to catch some fresh water fishes with no luck

Hard sailing. Almost no wind behind the islands. But inbetween up to 40kn. Fortunatels almost no waves due to the protecting islands.

Going real fast with little sails left

Heading towards the northerly Faroe Islands

Entering the narrow channels between the Islands. Well know for their notorious tides.

Going aginst 4kn of streams - well outside the main flowing water which often look like rivers

Klaksvik, best protected harbour on the whole Faroe

Oldest still active fishing vessel in the danish kingdom. The captain has endlessly stories to tell about the waters around here

Going for an evening stroll

View to the the north, somewhere up there lies Iceland, our next destination

Strong currents around the corners

One of the many small fishing vessels

On most of the hikes we met rabbits

Oystercatcher

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