Friday Statsraad Lehmkuhl slowed to a full stop, and lay still for a couple of hours.

- We heaved to today, Captain Jens Joachim Hiorth wrote in his daily report.

What he ordered was to turn the sails so that they braked Statsraad Lehmkuhl up, and kept the ship still against the wind. Two instruments were to be fired several hundred meters into the depths.

The ship is equipped with instruments that take samples of the water automatically around the clock. The content of CO2 and oxygen, the amount of phytoplankton, temperature, and salinity are measured once a minute. 

These samples are taken from an intake on the side of the ship, and thus only tell something about the conditions just below the sea surface. The researchers will investigate the depths as well, and on Friday a special sampler was used for the first time.

A metal frame with a white and red plastic cylinder in the middle was hooked onto a 750 meter long line, and dropped to the bottom. The instrument is called CTD, which stands for conductivity, temperature and depth.

Conductivity tells how well the water conducts electricity, and is a way of measuring salinity. The pressure tells how deep down the instrument is at all times. The temperature is recorded all the way, and is used together with salinity and pressure to calculate the density of the water, or the weight if you will. The instrument also measures how much light from the surface there is left.

The information is stored in the instrument, and loaded into the PC and sent ashore after the instrument has been hoisted back on board.

- It is cool that we can see all the graphs immediately, says Erlend Mundal, one of the two students responsible for the sampling.

In the video below you see the instrument being used. When the bottom is reached, the line is connected to a counter, which measures how much line that is hauled in using a power block.

The CTD in use

After the CTD is back on board the ship, a plankton net is attached to the line. The net is lowered to 200 meters and slowly hauled back. The plankton caught the net collects in a container at the end. The contents of the container is preserved on alcohol, and taken back to scientists on land.

The guard teams on board have different tasks. One of them is to stand buoy guard; to watch and cry out if anyone should fall overboard. You quickly disappear in sight in the waves out at sea, so this is an important job. 

The buoy guard also keeps the garbage diary. Here entries of plastic garbage seen floating around is noted, along with time and direction.

Heave to

Seasickness is a horrible experience. You get nauseous and miserable, you vomit, and have more than enough just taking care of yourself.

Ingrid Wollberg, the content producer on board Statsraad Lehmkuhl, has suffered a few rounds of nausea and misery.

Fortunately, it is possible to prevent seasickness from ruining the voyage completely.

Ingrid sliter litt med sjøsyke

We become seasick because the body gets confused. The balance organ in the inner ear consists of three fluid-filled tubes. The tubes are lined with microscopic hairs that perceive movement, and send signals on to the brain.

The balance organ enables us to keep our eyes fixed even when we move our heads. But in waves it screws up. The balance organ gives signals that do not match what the eyes see, the brain becomes confused, and we get sick.

Or to be precise - some of us gets sick. Some are never seasick. Most of us gets over it after a while, and others are completely wiped out until they return to dry land.

You may have spent a lot of time in boats without getting sick, but you will not know for sure until you get out to the open ocean. Beneath the waves on top, sea swells are rolling. The swells are so long that you hardly notice them, even the ones a few meters high. You are just slowly lifted up ... and then down again.

In her video Ingrid admits that she can't sit below deck and work.

– To sit and look into the PC-screen editing videos, is the worst.

No wonder, that's when the eyes and the balance organs in the ear are really fighting. 

– Stay on deck, be active, and don't worry so much about seasickness, Ingrid encourages.

A good advice: Do as Ingrid does, stay on deck. There you can watch the waves and move with the boat. Don't fight it, trying to "stabilize the world". 

The sea is beautiful, even when you are ailing. It is magical to see the sun disappear like a glowing fizzy dot into the sea, experience dolphins up close, and see fulmars swoop by.

But the ocean can be damp and cold. Maybe not on the way to Las Palmas, but the North Sea is cold even in the middle of summer.

A good advice: Dress well. You get seasick easier if you freeze, and the sickness feels even worse if you are cold.

For Ingrid, having meals down in the galley is a challenge. She is not the only one. The odour makes the appetite disappear, and the stomach is busy holding on to what's already in it.

A good advice: Avoid food odours, tobacco smoke and other strong smells. Eat and drink little at a time, but often. Dry biscuits, nuts and raisins are smart. And drink sports drinks, they also give you a little salt. Have some food with you up on deck, then you don't have to go below to eat. Under deck, your body becomes even more confused.

Vessels with mast and sails are more stable in the sea than vessels without. The wind pressure against the sail prevents rolling. But even in relatively calm weather, ocean swells can make you acutely seasick. 

Statsraad Lehmkuhl, have separate vomit holes, funnels with pipes running outside. They work fine as long as you remember to use the ones on the lee-side. If you run to one on the windward side, the sea can send your entire delivery in return.

A good advice: If you are in a smaller boat and have to throw up, do not do it over the railing. You risk a lot of mess, and you may fall overboard. Use a bucket with a rope attached, which you rinse in the sea afterwards.

On a long voyage you must at some point go inside, to sleep and go to the bathroom.

Getting undressed and go to bed can be a real challenge if you are seasick. But as soon as you lay on your back and close your eyes, it all gets much better. After just a few hours of sleep, you often feel completely fine for quite some time.

A good advice: Get to bed quickly, and get back on deck quickly. Sleep fully dressed if necessary, and by all means do not sit down to read or study maps. Go to the bathroom after you have slept, then you are most alert.

Does none of the above advice help? The safest remedy is to let the old salts keep ocean sailing, and enjoy protected waters instead. Being in a boat is supposed to be nice, and there is no point in bothering yourself.

But if you have signed up for a leg with Statsraad Lehmkuhl, you will be stuck on board for some time. It is therefore wise to have some medication packed.

A good advice: If you want to avoid seasickness completely, there are two remedies: 1 - Seasickness patches that are attached behind the ear and work for 72 hours. You need a prescription from your doctor to get these. 2 - Seasickness tablets, which comes in different versions. Talk to your pharmacist to find out which one you should use. Remember to take the tablets a couple of hours before you go on board, if you have already become ill, you risk vomiting them up again.

How to avoid getting seasick

On the leg from Arendal to Cadiz, the students Erlend Mundal and Erik Furevik were responsible for the scientific instruments on board. Erik disembarked in Cadiz, and up the gangway walked Ragnhild Beck Hestness.

On the next leg south to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, it is Ragnhild's turn to take care of the equipment, take samples, fish, and look for whales, together with Erlend. He did not worry about how it would be to work with the new student. Erlend knows her well - he and Ragnhild are partners and live together.

- I think the collaboration will go well. When I get a little into what is to be done it will probably be finr, when I am not so dependent on him, Ragnhild smiles.

Ragnhild is studying biology and chemistry at the University of Bergen, and will take a master's degree in marine biology, focusing on aquaculture. A voyage on an ocean research vessel is perfect.

- It is very cool to be part of real research. We have done a lot of experiments as students, but only to learn things, not to use the results.

It was not planned that Erlend would get Ragnhild as a partner. The student who was to replace Erik had to resign, and Erlend suggested that Ragnhild could take his place. The Institute of Marine Research gave the thumbs up.

- Very cool, I just had to grab that opportunity even if it was very short notice, says Ragnhild.

So short that it was not time for thorough preparations before she travelled to Cadiz.

- I have not quite understood what my duties will be in detail, but I know that we will spend a lot of time in the engine room taking samples, and that we will fish and look for marine mammals.

So it will be Erlend's job to train her. Exactly that was the plan from the very beginning, that the students who muster off teach the new ones. There is a lot that needs to be figured out along the way, and it is important to pass on that experience.

Ragnhild has got the hammock up, and has had the first night on board.

- It went very well. A bit cramped and not very comfortable, but I think I'll get used to it, she says.

Life on the sea is new to Ragnhild, and she looks forward to to be under sail, and learn about how a sailing ship works.

- And to be out on the open sea. I have heard that there are very nice sunsets, she says.

There is only one cloud at the horizon - Ragnhild has been seasick on ferries. She hopes Erlend can take care of the instruments in the engine room in the beginning.

- It is probably smart that I stay on deck the first few days, and fish in the fresh air.

A new partner for Erlend

All the way around the world, Statsraad Lehmkuhl collects data, both on the weather, and on the conditions of the sea below the ship.

One of the instruments on board takes continuous water samples, completely automatically. Students Erlend Mundal and Erik Furevik monitor the system, and make sure it works properly.

Sampling is stopped when the ship is close to port.

- This is to prevent clay, sand and other micro-rubbish from entering the system, says Erlend Mundal.

All data collected is shared with researchers on land, and now the first analyzes are getting ready.

The map below was mailed to the students this weekend.

Meike Becker is a scientist at the Department of Geophysics at UiB, studying the CO2 content in seawater.

- The ocean absorbs a lot of CO2, about 25 percent of what is released into the atmosphere, she writes in an email to Erlend and Erik.

- Of the rest, 30 percent is taken up by the vegetation on land, the rest stays in the atmosphere.

So, knowledge about the ocean is important for the researchers trying to understand the mechanisms behind climate change.

Water dissolves CO2 by forming carbonic acid. The formula looks like this:

Not all CO2 is converted to carbonic acid, some "floats around" in the water as CO2 molecules. It is the amount of these molecules Erlend and Erik measure; pCO2.

- The temperature and pressure determine how much is dissolved, Becker explains. But in general, cold water manages to dissolve more CO2 than warmer water.

This is one of the reasons the ocean does not absorb the same amount of CO2 everywhere. The area near the poles, as in the North Atlantic, absorbs a lot, while the sea near the equator often emits more CO2 than it absorbs.

Since temperature is a factor it is not surprising that pCO2 varies throughout the year. pCO2 is highest during the winter, decreases through spring when the amount of phytoplankton increases, and is lowest in summer.

The map Meike has sent plots pCO2 measured on the way south to Cadiz.

- Sailing into the shallow areas in the southern part of the North Sea, concentration is rising. This is both because the water is warmer here, and because the phytoplankton her has used up all the nutrients, and dies. When the plankton then is broken down by bacteria, nutrients and carbon are released. Then the amount of CO2 that is dissolved in the ocean and thus also pCO2 increases, Meike explains.

The further south the ship sails, the warmer the sea gets, and the more pCO2 is expected to increase.

The sampling did not start until the ship was west of Denmark, it took a while to get the equipment up and running. As you can see, the map also lacks the last stretch towards Cadiz.

- Meike follows the measurements from land, and at a point she realized that there was a small gas leak, Erlend says.

Erlend and Erik asked the chief engineer for advice. He sprayed soapy water on the pipes in the instruments to see where gas was bubbling out, and fixed the problem by tightening the leaking coupling.

Research

The first analyzes are ready

One of the ambitions of One Ocean Expedition is to focus on sustainability, how to behave so our way of living does not destroy the planet.

So, it's not a coincidence that the expedition rides the wind around the globe.

In total Statsraad Lehmkuhl has a sail-area of 2026 m2. If laid flat out on the ground, you could easily fit four normal family-houses on top of them, including a little garden.

- We have a fantastic opportunity here on board, we can sail. We can get from one place to another without burning fossil fuels, says Captain Jens Joachim Hiorth.

Sailing is smart for another reason as well. Statsraad Lehmkuhl is faster sailing, up to over 18 knots, than motoring. Even with 1125 horses, the top speed using the engine is 11 knots.

But the wind is not always blowing exactly as you would prefer. 

A sailing ship reaches top speed when the wind is aft across, blowing from behind and a bit to the side. Then all the 22 sails catch wind.

Statsraad Lehmkuhl can sail a little bit upwind, but that makes the trip a long zigzag-voyage. This was taken into account when the expedition was planned.

- 55,000 nautical miles is a long voyage, but 20 months is also a long time. It varies slightly from stage to stage, but as an average the speed is not more than 4 knots.

Captain Hiort calls this sustainable route planning.

- Sailing is without comparison the best thing we can do to make the expedition sustainable.

But of course, the engine will be started from time to time. To manoeuvre safely and if the wind is getting too troublesome.

- In sum, we will probably sail a lot, says Hiort.

This is why sailing is smart

Statsraad Lehmkuhl visited La Coruña August 28-29 2021.

La Coruña is situated well protected inside the Golfo Ártabro, northwest in Spain. A nice harbor to sail into after crossing the Bay of Biscay.
The city is a modern busy port, and the industrial and financial center of this part of Spain.

Normal maximum temperature in August: 22.8 ℃
Normal precipitation in August: 35 mm

La Coruña

La Coruña, Spain

Statsraad Lehmkuhl visited Lisbon September 2-5 2021.





Lisbon is the capital of Portugal, and is located at the mouth of the river Tajo . The city is the second oldest capital in Europe, after Athens. Its age still leaves its mark on the city, which has a tangle of narrow streets between small houses..



Normal maximum temperature in September: 26.5 ℃
Normal precipitation in September: 33 mm

Lisbon

Lisbon, Portugal

Statsraad Lehmkuhl visits Cadiz September 9-15 2021.

Cádiz is located in southwestern Spain, not far from the Strait of Gibraltar, the entrance to the Mediterranean. The city is located on what once was an island in the Bay of Cádiz. It is one of the world's oldest port cities, built around 1100 BCE.

When the great European voyages of discovery began in the 15th century, Cádiz became one of Spain's main cities. Two of Columbus' journeys started from here.



Normal maximum temperature in September: 28.7 ℃
Normal precipitation in September: 23.8 mm

Cádiz, Spain

All fellow sailors receive a handbook describing the details of a tall ship before embarking Statsraad Lehmkuhl. The number of salty terms and expressions can be overwhelming.

The students from Åsane Folkehøgskole are no exeption, they have also read the handbook, trying to remember and understand.

They embarked in Lisbon. A few days ago, when the ship finally got fair winds and could shut down the engine and set sail towards Cadiz, it was their job to get the sails set.

High above the deck, struggeling with ropes, knots and canvas, you also have to hold on. Not easy when you stand on thin wires, waves rolling beneath you.

Reading the handbook is not enough, you have to practice before you climb up for the first time. So the crew has made a mini version of parts of the rig down on deck. There, the students learn how all the different knots are tied, and they practice folding the sails together right, so that they can be quickly set again.

It is not only the acrobatics in the rig that are a challenge to inexperienced sailors. Mikkel Volden (20) is on the white guard team, on watch from 04 to 08 in the morning.

- You have no choice but to get up ... you may call it late, or early, Mikkel smiles, and is happy that he is shaken out of sleep by those who go off duty.

- I would have been harder if I had had to wake up by myself.

The dog's watch is nice when you get used to getting up early. Daylight dawns, and you get to see the sunrise.

- I had chosen this guard again, says Mikkel.

- Sometimes I am on the buoy watch. Then you stand and watch to see if anyone should fall into the water. I stand at the helm, and we also do fire inspections around the ship, Mikkel says.

On the off-duty, people relax, talk and eat.

- Not too much, I have heard that you get seasick more easily on a very very full stomach, says Mikkel.

Below you see the page in the handbook that illustrates how the square sails are hauled up and then secured in place by ropes.

A lot to learn for a fresh sailor

Bjørn Olav Østeby (26) left Statsraad Lehmkuhl in Lisbon. Or, to be precise, wheeled - he brought his bike on board. For him the adventure is not over, Bjørn Olav is now cycling back to Norway.

Bjørn Olav Østeby has planned his trip for a year.

- I heard about One Ocean Expedition last autumn, and decided that I wanted to join in, he says.

The original plan was to travel by train and backpack home to Norway. But his brother's bike ride to Milan a few years ago inspired him. Could he bring a bike on board?

That was perfectly fine for Statsraad Lehmkuhl.

The plan is to cycle 100 kilometers a day, so the trip home via Madrid and Hirtshals takes a month or so. Bjørn Olav is a little bit anxious. He has hardly cycled since he was a child. The bike is brand new.

- It will be a new experience, he smiles. Tough for the butt in the beginning.

Bjørn Olav understands that he needs advice, and has talked a lot with people who have been on long bike rides.

- It is nice to experience how eager people are to share. I sat with my bike in Arendal before leaving, and that alone was enough for someone to come over to have a chat.

Bjørn Olav believes that the biggest challenge will be finding a good route.

- Which does not have a lot of traffic, but at the same time is nice to cycle on.

It is hard to plan ahead, which makes him a bit worried about getting enough food and water, and finding places to sleep.

- I am staying with someone named Arthur, in the Netherlands, whom I met on board here. Very nice!

Bjørn Olav is above average engaged in sustainability. He likes the fact that he travelled to Lisbon by sail, and then gets home again by bike.

- One of the UN's sustainability goals is about cooperation, and Statsraad Lehmkuhl is a good example of that. Mixing people from different nationalities and getting them to talk to each other, he says, and continues.

- For me, it is also something symbolic in that I will now cross national borders without this being a major obstacle.

The voyage from Arendal to Lisbon has given him new acquaintances, good memories and new knowledge. He has used his spare time to read about cycling, so he now knows more than before of both cycling and sailing.

Bjørn Olav promises to post travel letters on Instagram, 

The UN sustainability goals are the world's joint work plan to eradicate poverty, fight inequality and halt climate change by 2030.

The 17 goals are meant to be a guide for both states, businesses, and for me and you.

The goals are based on input from countries all over the world. Nearly ten million people had their say through a survey.

Sailing south, cycling home

Sailing from Norway to Spain and Portugal in great summer weather has been an adventure. But the voyage is first and foremost an expedition to gather new data, gain new insights, and then share the new knowledge.

All that can be measured, will be measured, from the weather and waves, to the conditions down in the sea.

Data collection is handled by students Erlend Mundal and Erik Furevik. They monitor the instruments that takes water samples, analyze and report, they look for whales and dolphins, and they fish. You read that right, fishing with a fishing rod.

Every morning, in the middle of the day and in the evening, the rods are put to use. One rod is for fish of normal size, the other so strong that it can catch fish weighing more than 20 kilos.

It was Geir Huse at the Institute of Marine Research who got the idea to equip the students with fishing rods.

- I don't think this has been done before, at least I do not know about it, he says.

Doing ocean reseach, it is common to use how much fish you manage to catch as a measure of how much fish there are in the sea in total. The researchers call it "catch per unit effort". The unique thing here is that normal fishing rods are used,  systematically around the globe - 55,000 nautical miles, 102,000 kilometers.

- What we manage to catch is exciting, but also to have a time series. How often do we get a fish on the hook, along the entire route, says Huse.

The catch is photographed, weighed and measured, and the ear stones are picked out. The ear stones are part of the balance organ of the fish. If you split them in two, you will see annual rings that tell how old the fish is, just like in trees.

- The size of the fish provides some information, but the age of the fish is much more important to us, says Huse.

The catch does not go to the seagulls, but to the chef. On a ship, there is a limit to what you can bring in provisions, and fresh fish is delicious. No fish - so far.

- Of course, two small rods in a large sea, it is not a given that you get fish, says Huse.

Counting the number of fish caugth is not sufficient. The researchers will also find out if there is a connection between how often fish bites the hook, and other conditions in the sea. So, before the cruise began, Statsraad Lehmkuhl was equipped as a modern research vessel.

One of the instruments takes water samples, completely automatically. The system is called "Ferrybox".

- It takes samples of CO2 and oxygen content, chlorophyll - that is the amount of phytoplankton, temperature, and salinity, about once a minute. Ferrybox is a well-established system, installed on many ships, the ferries that cross the North Sea for example. It gives very good data, but the limitation is that the samples are taken from the water intake at the bottom of the ship, only about eight meters down, Huse explains.

They will therefore stop Statsraad Lehmkuhl at regular intervals. The ship has a sampler that can be lowered all the way down to 750 meters. A valve is closed, and then the water sample is pulled back on board.

Once the ship is at rest, a plankton net is also sent 200 meters down. The net has a very fine-meshed cloth, which collects plankton when it is slowly hauled up.
Plankton are tiny animals and plants that float around in the ocean. In a liter of seawater there can be tens of millions of them, and they are important food for fish and other animals.

- The plankton samples give us a lot of information, but they must be analyzed by experts on land so the contents of the net are preserved in alcohol, Huse says.

The water samples will be checked for microplastics; tiny pieces of plastic bags, plastic bottles, remnants of ropes and other things, torn and broken by the waves. We also release microplastics when we wash synthetic clothes. The warm fleece jacket that is so nice and cosy has a problematic side to it. 

DNA, genetic material, is also extracted from the water samples. The technique is called eDNA, which stands for environmental DNA.

- I am very excited about this, says Huse.

The technique has been known for a long time, but has been in practical use only the last five years. Everything that lives in the ocean releases some DNA, and there are now large databases that the samples are checked against. A list of organisms present in the area where the sample was taken is issued automatically.

- Even if you do not get the organism up, this is a completely certain identification, says Huse.

Many organisms stay down in the depths during the day, and only come to the surface during the night. Since the water samples are taken around the clock, Huse and his colleagues can study how this "commuting" takes place, and see if there are differences around the globe.

Erik Furevik and Erlend Mundal takes water samples.

- To get DNA out of the water samples, we use special filters. Some of them are frozen and stored, while others are analyzed on board. So they get a species-list there and then, and that's a bit exciting. This is one of the more complicated tasks the students do, and which they needed a full day of training to perform, says Huse.

Statsraad Lehmkuhl has a new echo sounder installed. Not for safe navigation, but to discover what lives down below the ship.

On the echo sounders installed in our day cruisers, many strange things show up as fish symbols. This is not the case here, the echo sounder on board know the difference between plankton and fish.

- You can not visually see very far down into the sea, but the echo sounders reach all the way to the bottom, and give us an incredible amount of information, says Huse, and explains.

- We can look at how much plankton there is in the Atlantic in relation to in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean for example. And we can see if there is a connection between what we register of phytoplankton measured by Ferrybox in the upper layers, and the amount of fish further down, for example. How deep down do we find the zooplankton? Is there a connection between the organisms and the amount of sunlight? 

If you put on a diving mask and dips your head into the ocean, it may seem empty and silent. But that's not the case. The animals that live down there make noise, and so do ships. The sound propagates more than four times faster in water than in air, and layers of water with different temperatures and salinity, creates "channels" that allow the song of a whale to be heard many kilometers away.

Huse will also investigate this, and has installed hydrophones on board - microphones made to function underwater.

- It will be very exciting to find out what we hear. What is man-made noise, and what is biological sound? And how the sound is distributed. We will look for relationships between natural sounds, noise, and other parameters, says Huse.

When you want to record sound using hydrophones, it is perfect to be in a sailing ship, which does not make noise itself.

- We can tow a hydrophone behind a boat with an engine as well, but now we remove noise from the ship almost completely. It's the same with echosounders. The fish are scared away by a boat that moves using a large propeller, Huse explains.

Erlend and Erik will also watch for whales.

At regular intervals, they will scout the sea with binoculars. When they see a tail fin, or a blow - the cloud of water and steam when the whales breathe, they note the position and time, and what species they have seen.

The latter is a challenge. Marine scientists usually bring in special experts for counting whales, people who can recognize the different species based on the way they behave.

- The students do not have that experience, but they can at least see that here is a whale, and then they can eventually wind up what species it probably is. But just knowing that there are whales, and their numbers, helps us to understand the productivity, the amount of phytoplankton and fish, Huse says.

So a lot of responsibility rests on the shoulders of the students, and Huse is honest - as the first two are Erlend and Erik are guinea pigs.

- They are in a way double test guinea pigs. They will have to get the systems to run smoothly, we have not run the systems, we have tested them, but have not run them over time. And beeing the first, find out how much one can expect to get done in the course of a day. Now, this it is a bit unclear simply.

Agenda Vestlandet, a foundation established by Sparebanken Vest, makes it possible for Huse to have students on board during the entire cruise. They have paid for the equipment that is installed, and cover the costs of the total of 20 students who will share the work.

Research using earmuffs and fishing rods

David Gold has wanted to be on a sailing ship since he was a boy. Now the dream finally came true, but only just.

- It's kind of a funny story, says 72-year-old David Gold from Boston in the USA.

Together with a friend, he planned to sail with Statsraad Lehmkuhl to Shetland this summer. But the corona pandemic prevented them from coming to Norway, to board the ship.

We should probably just get the tickets refunded then, the two thought at first. David called the office in Bergen.

- They said that the ship would soon be out on a new trip, It's the first leg of a wonderful trip around the world. It's just a little bit more money, but would you beinterested?

David talked to his friend, and the two decided to go. For David, it is an old dream coming true. When he was seven, his father took him aboard the naval vessel USS "Constitution" in Boston. The sailing ship was built in 1797, and is the second oldest naval vessel still in active duty.

- I said to my dad, I will sail on a tall ship one day. The dream now became true.

He's been lucky. The weather has been on the their side, and Statsraad Lehmkuhl has been under sail all the way to the Bay of Biscay.

The trip is over for David and his friend when the ship arrives in La Coruna, regretfully.

- If there is someway I can join the ship again, somewhere in the world at sometime, I am going to be on this ship, says David.

He has been up in the rig and learned a lot about how to maneuver the sailing ship. Today, the helmsman explained to him how a sextant works.

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Heave to

How to avoid getting seasick

A new partner for Erlend

The first analyzes are ready

This is why sailing is smart

La Coruña, Spain

Lisbon, Portugal

Cádiz, Spain

A lot to learn for a fresh sailor

Sailing south, cycling home

Research using earmuffs and fishing rods

An old dream

A new friendship

The students are on board

Finally - open sea

First night on deck

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