Tur/ retur Elnesvågen via Bjørnøya på en sommer er faktisk mulig, for en pensjonist. Turen tok 3 måneder og ble til sammen på 3011 nautiske mil. Det er langt dette landet, det meste er nord... Klikk på bildet om du vil se mere fra turen ENGLISH A retiree could actually complete a round-trip voyage from Elnesvågen around Svalbard via Bjørnøya in a single summer. The 3-month trip covered a total of 3,011 nautical miles. Click HERE to get the Logg in English

Now, this system has been tried and tested and it's been a great success. A total of 3,200 nautical miles were sailed all together during our Svalbard expedition this summer, consuming around 800 litres of diesel. This figure also includes the fuel used for heating via the Webaso system, which heats the onboard radiator system and the oil-fired stove in the salon. Clean diesel is absolutely essential for both heating and engine propulsion, to operate without problems. That's why we installed a diesel conditioning system last autumn, and we usually activate the system if we know the engine will be running for a couple of hours or more. Eeach time we refill the day tank from the main tank, we monitor the Racor 500 filter housing through its glass dome to see if any of particles or water add up inside the housing, and at regular intervals we open the filter housing and check the filter element to see if diesel microbes builds. Very litle was to be seen through out the summer. To achieve a

Fuel consumption became a major concern on our expedition to Svalbard this summer due to poor wind conditions, which meant we had to use the engine far more than ususal .. Read more about that here...

As usual, I checked the engine compartment after starting the engine. I immediately noticed that the alternator drive belt was loose. The second time that good routine paid off was with the leaky raw water pump

The summer voyage has finally got underway, but it got off to a slow start. It took nearly two weeks to defuse a '"ticking bomb" which was on the verge of serious malfunction. The captain is alone on board; Katrine has to stay at work for the first half of the summer. A brisk southwesterly wind is providing good headwinds as I sail north along the Helgeland coast. I just need to make it there in time for when Katrine and her crew arrive by plane to sign on in Tromsø. A nice cup of tea and a slice of Katrines "Expedition Cacke" (Mormors recipe), higly helps on the motivation of a singlehanded sailor. Regarding the "ticking bomb" insident, Read more about it here.

The electrical system was significantly upgraded three years ago, and it was now time to make some adjustments based on experience. The most important change was to replace the fuses to improve safety. The second change was to relocate the rectifier, which was mainly for comfort, reducing odors and noise.