From fjords to Norwegian Sea...

Day 38: Saturday 6th June, 2026

Floro to Honnisvag, Statt Peninsula

Duration: 7hrs 45mins

Sunny and settled conditions forecast for the next couple of days ahead - so a perfect time to move on, and bid Florø farewell...back into the inner leads of Froysjoen, with its rocky passes...

...then up Vagsfjord, more wooded and verdant...

...and then under the bridge at Måløy, through Ulvesund - a less pretty, and more industrial town...

...Then leaving the inner leads behind...

...we entered the open Norwegian Sea, to round the Statt Peninsula... the infamous windswept coastline, with its ocean currents, varying depths, and exposed waters that can see waves up to 30m high - an area that has seen 58 localized ship wrecks - where the Vikings would drag their boats overland to bypass the dangerous sea route... but thankfully for us the weather gods were kind and the Captain's precise planning meant the passage was beautifully calm with gentle rolling seas...

...happily passing Hoddevik with is long sandy beach...

...then Ervik...

...and then Vestkapp - the most Westerly point of Norway...

...and then on into Honningsvag....

... with its lovely wee sheltered sunny harbour...sharing it solely with a colourful wee dinghy, who camped ashore...

...Safely anchored and having had a bbq dinner...we rowed ashore for an evening walk...

...accompanied by the universally known musical tinkles of a surreally placed ice-cream van doing it rounds, and a friendly noisy goat which had to be manhandled by its owner to cease its evening stroll...

...Feeling our legs suitably stretched...(and with the Captain's twitcherlike tendencies happily satiated with a sighting of a couple of noisy Redwings and some equally chirpy Fieldfares)..

..we gently poddled back to the boat for a lovely sunny and peaceful night aboard...