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13th year of navigation for Fredoya after a winter refit session. Detailed program for autumn and winter. To read !

With a little bit of patience for the good weather and thanks to the quality of everyone’s listening, here is the keel and its cylinder waiting for the crane operator to take it out in the dry area for disconnection […]

Fredoya well set up and relieved of the maximum of material. With 1 round trip home in a van and a second in C3 we can see more clearly to attack the works. Contacts are made with a sailmaker to […]

Brittany on holiday under the sun (and sometimes a little drizzle).On the way to the Portes de l’Atlantique shipyard for 6 months, in order to redo major maintenance before leaving for Greenland-Disko Bay to honor the 3 months of charter […]

New electronic charts: the 2 computers do not give the same image and you have to juggle, reset everything to get a correct overview.But with 3 computers, including 1 with the old charts, Google, Marinetraffic and its OnCourse application, we […]

Departure from Svalbard “without” regrets but with a small pinch in the heart especially for the 4 who could not come to recharge their batteries in the cool.Many projects in mind, here is the beginning for the coming months.

It is a final decision: we will not return to Svalbard yet so attractive.A very pleasant first trip which allowed us to test maritime solidarity even with the big cruise lines, during a call for a Covid test.Beautiful memories filmed […]

With 15 days left, it was possible to juggle the weather and avoid other cruise passengers as much as possible.With the result of beautiful photos and drone image to come…Bear, beluga, seal, minke whale, fox and lots of flowers and […]

After a nice crossing of the Barents Sea, here we are in Spitsbergen where we will stay until the end of July.Then it will be Lofoten passing by Tromsø to bid farewell at the same time as the crew change. […]

As everything comes to the point, when tidying up the interior, we take out the wood laid 12 years ago, waiting for “…” Spring cleaning under a bright sun, we say to ourselves that we can put the saw in […]

After a windy and snowy month of January, the RETURN of the sun above the mountains and therefore on the mast of Fredoya which will patiently wait for the April thaw for maintenance.

End of the month and winter session under unstable and stormy but sunny weather by our 3 team members. Penultimate round to Skjervøy managing the winter depressions, between snow – rain and very strong winds, we were still able to […]

12 months ago, we were waiting to cross the Panama Canal, The Covid still creates a lot of anxiety for us but many of you have navigated through it to reach the board.We are therefore continuing in 2022 with the […]

Departure under the rain, able to stay awake until 4 a.m. to hope to see the Northern Lights … a great reward with the added bonus of the humpback whales which arrived in large numbers while the orcas, fishermen and […]