Sailing Fabule
During this rainy, cold and windy week, we stayed in Stavanger. It was time to took care of cleaning, provisioning and putting the affairs of daily life in order. In addition, Stavanger has good museums (really liked the Norsk Oljmuseum, Arkeologisk Museum and Norks Hermetikkmuseum) and a movie theather. Worth mentioning this week are the […]
We spent a week exploring Lysefjord. The name means “light fjord”, in reference to the coloured granite rock of its cliffs. Lysefjord is 42 km (26 nm) long and offers several impressive hiking opportunities. Getting to Lysefjord To get to Lysefjord, we passed under 2 bridges, one to leave Stavanger and another at the entrance […]
Stavanger was our entry point to Norway. We stayed several days in this lively town. Coexistence of modern and old With around 230 000 habitants, Stavanger is the 3rd city of Norway (after Oslo and Bergen). It expanded a lot over the last 50 years, when oil was discovered in the North Sea. Stavanger became […]
It was time for us to leave the Scotland and to cross the North Sea to Norway. The passage from Inverness to Stavanger is 345 nautical miles. There are alternative routes, where you do a first leg along the East coast of Scotland to place your starting point closer to Norway. However, since we had […]
We left Oban on a gloomy morning and made way toward Fort William, starting point of the Caledonian Canal. This canal connects the West coast (Fort William) and the East coast (Inverness) of Scotland along the Great Glen, a geological fault in the earth’s crust that creates a passage between the Scottish Highlands. When we […]
When arriving in Oban, we could feel that this was an international tourist hub. This town situated on the mainland is the gateway to the islands and close to the Caledonian canal. No where else during our journey had we heard so many different languages spoken. We decided to take advantage of a relaxing day […]
Welcoming our daughter Romaine aboard Fabule meant a lot to us. She was involved in the project since the beginning and visited second-hand boats and boatyards with us. Now she would discover the boat and live on it for a couple of weeks. She landed in Glasgow which is an easy train/bus travel away from […]
A loch is basically a corridor between more or less high mountains. Inside this corridor, the wind can be accelerated or diminished. In addition, its direction can be changed. It felt completely erratic at first. After learning how to manage longer passages, we now had to anticipate frequent changes and constantly make adjustments to sail […]
When we set sails from the marina of Troon, we were a little anxious about the new experience ahead of us: spending several days at anchor in an unknown destination with a rainy weather forecast. The journey started with windy conditions, providing good speed but also a bumpy ride. As we progressed north and entered […]
After crossing the North Channel, we entered Loch Ryan for our first night in Scotland. To our surprise, we saw that there was another Boreal already anchored there. During that windy night, we both monitored our anchors carefully to make sure they did not drag. The next day, we invited the crew of Askell Wenn […]