Small boat & big dreams. After one year of living aboard, we started our journey around the world in May 2005.  

Feel free to sign our new GUESTBOOK or send us an email:

WEBSALBUM. 

We cruised along the Norwegian coast, Stavanger - Tromsø and back, the summer of 2004. The photo shows BIKA in front of the Øksfjord glacier in Kvænangen, Northern Norway, 70ºNorth.

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January 3rd, 2008: New travel article from our stay in Colombia a year ago posted. All well in the Canadian wilderness.

December 10th. 2007: 3 new travel articles from the ABC-islands, San Blas/Panama and Canada posted. We are enjoying our stay in the Canadian North, and wish all who follow our journey a merry christmas and happy new year. The coming spring we will return to BIKA, which is stored on land in Toronto.

October 5th. 2007: New guestbook is available. The crew is onshore, deep in the Canadian forest.

Sept. 9th, 2007: BIKA will be stored on the hard in Toronto, while we'll be staying in a cabin by Bistcho Lake, NW Alberta, until April/May 2008. Together with our new furry crew kitty Erie we'll be offline in the wilderness, among wolfes, moose and eagles.

Sept. 4th, 2007: Everybody is invited to join us and the rest of Scarborough & Bluff Sailing Club in Toronto for their corn roast and potluck Saturday 8th of September, from 6 in the evening. We will give a talk about our travels in BIKA after the food.

Aug 25th, 2007: We have arrived in Toronto, Canada, and is anchored in the Lighthouse Pond.

Aug 10th, 2007: We are at Troy/NY, just about to start the Erie canal towards Lake Ontario. We have been giving talks to various boat clubs/companies in Connencticut and New York lately. If this could be of interest to anyone along our route (from now until mid October: Erie canal, Lake Ontario, Toronto, Trent Severn canal, Georgian Bay), please send us an email (se address above).

Aug 1st, 2007: BIKA at a mooring at the 79th Street Boat Basin on Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York. We will continue up the Hudson River in a few days.

July 25th, 2007: Leaving Branford for New York tomorrow, and will start up the Hudson River in a few days.

July 5th, 2007: New travel article posted, from the time in Trinidad & Tobago.

June 26th, 2007: Instead of waiting out the Northerlies in Beaufort, we sailed/motorsailed the Intracoastal Waterway to Norfolk, Virginia. Then sailed offshore to New York (spectacular!), where we tried twice before getting through the currents at Hell Gate in East River. Arrived in Branford, Connecticut yesterday. BIKA stays at Indian Neck Yacht Club for some weeks, while we visit familiy and friends.

June 6th, 2007: After three days of sailing North we turned South again to escape the tropical storm Barry. We spent a day hove-to in stormy weather (40 knots), then turned North again and arrived in Beaufort, North Carolina, USA, yesterday night.

May 29th, 2007: BIKA leaving Abaco, Bahamas, heading for the New York area, USA.

May 18th, 2007: Bika is now in Marsh harbour in Abaco, Bahamas, waiting for the right weather to sail up towards New York.

April 10th, 2007:  After 4 days at sea, BIKA arrived Cienfuegos, Cuba.

April 2nd, 2007: We will leave Grand Cayman tomorrow morning, bound for Cienfuegos, Cuba.

March 29th, 2007: After five and a half days beating into strong winds we arrived in Grand Cayman, a Caribbean tax haven with high prices, nice caymanians and one million sunburnt cruiseship tourists.

March. 23^rd, 2007: The weather forecast is good and Bika will set sail for Grand Cayman tonight or tomorrow

March 19th, 2007: After 3 ½ days sailing with slow speed, Bika arrived Providencia.

February 12th, 2007:  After 3-4 weeks in Kuna Yala (San Blas) are we now in Portobelo, just south of Colon/the Panama Canal. We are awaiting our new passports here, and preparing for sailing to Cuba and later New York/the Great Lakes/Canada. We have decided to drop spending the next hurricane season in Guatemala, and instead head for Georgian Bay/Lake Huron, where we hope to find a cabin for the winter (and put BIKA on land). We will try to be in New York by June this year.

January 25th, 2007: Bika will soon leave San Blas, heading for Panama.

January 8th, 2007: We are sailing to the San Blas in Panama today, for at least some weeks. There are no phones nor internet there, instead there are kuna indians and traditional indian life. We are looking forward to this!

December 23rd, 2006: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all who follow our travels. All is well in Cartagena, Colombia, we will celebrate the holidays together with the 250 other foreign sailors here.

December 1st, 2006: Travel route updated.

November 23rd, 2006: Yet another travel article posted, from our Atlantic crossing. Eleven months after, it still hurts to think about what happened to us there.

November 21st, 2006: New travel article posted, from our stay in the Canaries and Cape Verde Islands. We are still enjoying Colombia, have done some inland travelling and a short trip back to Norway.

August 19th, 2006: Cartagena and Colombia is so nice we have decided to stay here for the rest of the year.

July 7th, 2006: After a week east of Santa Marta on the North coast of Colombia, we sailed down to Cartagena. What a lovely city! We´ll stay here three months, to escape hurricanes.

June 11th, 2006: Finally a new travellog posted. It's from our sailing in Spain, Portugal and Morocco. We have reached Curacao now, planning for Columbia next.

June 5th, 2006: Our stay in Trinidad lasted much longer than planned. We sailed to Los Testigos off Venezuela the 30th of May, and stayed there a few days. Today we reached Bonaire, one of the ABC-islands.

May 10th, 2006: Chaguaramas in Trinidad is full of yachts being fixed up, or stored while the owners go home for a while. We are fed up with boat maintenance and hope to get away from here soon...

April 20th, 2006: After two weeks in Charlotteville, we are back in Store Bay, south in Tobago. Trinidad next, and then further west to escape the hurricane season.

March 17th, 2006: We plan to cruise slowly clockwise around the paradiselike Tobago, and have reached Store Bay. Palms and white beaches, warm sea, lovely fruits and a grand time. There are a few new photos on the websalbum. We are sorry for taking so long to write the travelouges. The Norwegian travelouges have plenty of photos, - for those who do not want to wait, just go to the Norwegian site and click on "Reisebrev".

March 11th, 2006: Left Brava the Feb 21th at 1500 hrs, and arrived in Scarborough on Tobago today, March 11th at 0030 hrs. Quick passage!

February 20th, 2006: After almost three weeks on the lovely island of Brava we are ready to cross the Atlantic, for Tobago. We are sailing tomorrow.

January 29th, 2006: We had it all planned for Africa. Maps and guides, visas, vaccines and malaria tablets. The right courtesy flags. Sigarettes for harbour masters and fish hooks for trading with fishermen. Kiddie clothes, pencils and scrap books. Contact with a french sailing doctor in Casamance, whom we would like to help out in one way or the other. Great Expectations. The only thing we had not been able to arrange, was the weather. The wind turned against us. After two days of heavy weather sailing enroute to Banjul, we turned the bow and went downwind instead, back to the Cape Verde Islands, to Praia. We should have left for Banjul from the Canaries. Instead of having our East African Adventure, we will now  cross the Atlantic for Tobago.

January 19th, 2006:   BIKA have been weather-bound on the island Boa Vista for one week.  They hope to be able to continue, bond for Banjul, Gambia within a few days. All well onboard.

December 27th, 05: We did not leave until the 15th, and reached Mindelo in Cabo Verde December 26th. 11 days of force 7, days and days of rain and almost calms and finally the steady trade winds, and x-mas eve out in the big blue. All well. 

December 14th, 05: It will take us 7-10 days to reach the Cape Verde Islands from the Canaries. We are sailing today, and hope to make it before christmas. Merry Christmas to everyone who follows our journey, and thank you for all nice emails and guestbook greetings.

November 30th, 05: During the tropical storm Delta, 80 knots of wind was registrated in marina Rubicon. A 80 ton boat got loose, and threathed to smash boat BIKA and other boats. We think we were very lucky to escape without any damages. After a short stop in Las Palmas we´re off for the Cape Verde Islands.

November 26th, 05: New travelouge finally posted, about crossing Biscay. A few new photos in the webs album as well. We are leaving Arrecife in Lanzarote for a mail pick up in Playa Blanca. Shortly after we plan to set sail for the Cape Verde islands.

November 7th, 05: We spent 2,5 days crossing from Morocco to Lanzarote. All well aboard.

October 29th, 05: In two days good winds are predicted; and we will sail to Isla Graciosa near Lanzarote. Morocco has been a true adventure!

October 19th, 05: We used five days between Portugal and Safi in Morocco. We are tied up to a fishing boat together with a German cruiser, and have entered a world different from all we have ever known. After five lonely days at sea, all the smells, all the people and noise is very exhausting, we need to take in Africa bit by bit. Still it is grand being here, we are amazed.

October 11th, 05: After Cascais, Sagres, Baleeira, Lagos and Alvor, we are now in Portimão, waiting for northerly winds. Morocco next.

September 19th, 05: First English travelouge finally posted. We may leave Porto for Cascais tonight.

September 13th, 05: Arrived at Porto, a brilliant city!

September 3rd, 05: Staying at Bayona, just north of the Portuguise border. In A Coruña we got a new crewmember; Luna. She´s the finest kitten of all seas. Leaving for Leixoes in Portugal in a few days.

August 11th, 05: After Ribadeo we spent a few days in Ria de Cedeira. We arrived in A Coruña last night. Lovely summer, all well.

July 28th, 05: We left the Isles of Scilly July 20th, bound for Galicia. We had 6 days in the Bay of Biscay filled with flat calms, dolphins, force 7 from south west, seasickness, stormsail, heave to during the nights, and then finally: the lovely smell of land. We made Ribadeo in Galicia, Northern Spain, our first port of call (July 26th).

July 11th, 05: Bika arrived Scilly and enjoying the summer. They are planning to start sailing for Galicia, Spain next week.

APRIL 05   BIKA is still in Tananger harbour (near Stavanger) in southern Norway. We have tossed out the inboard engine, replacing it with a small outboard. This opens up lots of storing space, and will hopefully give us less mechanical headache and expences than the old inboard. Our new windvane (Windpilot Pacific Light) just arrived from Germany, so we won't have to handsteer around the world. The ever increasing to-do-list is sometimes giving us sleepless nights, but we still think we'll leave May 15th.