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Stories in English

 

Colombia to Panama

Colombia to Panama single handed

March 2011 |||| A journey along the coast of Colombia to Panama on my own.

 

Curaçao to Colombia

Curaçao to Colombia 2011

February 2011 |||| "It's going to be a nice downwind sail, all the way to Colombia...." I don't think people have done the trip when they say that, but this is my story of the "nice" sail.

 

Rainy Curaçao

Rainy Curaçao 2010

November 2010 |||| The sunny Caribbean island Curaçao, has turned into a rather moist place.

 

Tsunami Thailand

The tsunami in Thailand

August 2010 |||| In 2004 I was on Phi Phi Island, Thailand when the island was washed away by a tidalwave caused by an underwater earthquake north of Sumatra, Indonesia. Around 4000 people lost their lives on the island, this is my story.

 

Ireland Project

The Ireland Project

May 2010 |||| A place on Mars was to be named after an island in Ireland and I was going to part of this project taking photos. For ten days I was with The League of Imaginary Scientists, friends from Los Angeles.

 

Broken toilet

The Broken Toilet

April 2010 |||| The holiest room, the most visited room and the most enjoyable room on the boat, the shitter, couldn't be used.

 

Outboard Story

The outboard story

March 2010 |||| Back on Solitude we ate dinner, had some rum and beers and went into a bar with the dinghy and my old Nissan 8 horsepower outboard on.

 

2010 Crossing

2010 Crossing

January 2010 |||| We hugged the shore of Curaçao before we sat sails for the north eastern corner of the Lesser Antilles.

 

Reunion with my ship

Reunion with my ship

January 2010 |||| It was such a good feeling to be back on my sailboat after five months in Denmark.

 

Shark dive Fiji

Shark dive in Fiji

December 2009 |||| In 2002 I was in 30 metres of water surrounded by sharks....

 

Alternator story

The Alternator Story

June 2009 |||| My face was already gas blue and I mentioned a few bad things into the air about The Workshop. I tried to measure the power from the alternator on every wire but could not figure it out.

 

Back in the right element

Back in the right element

February 2009 |||| An hour later the tractor had taken Solitude from the stilts and into The Caribbean Sea and was tied up in the launch slip.

 

World of sailing

The world of sailing

December 2008 |||| At happy hour I would be the youngest skipper of them all.

 

Edvard Christian Antonius Nielsen Ørtoft

My Grandma's uncle was a king...

August 2008 |||| Every one he talked to, told him not to go to this island, the locals were called the Tiger people, were cannibals and extremely violent.

 

Tractor pulling

Tractor Pulling experience

June 2008 |||| Not many from the city come to these areas and on regular bases they have these events far away from Copenhagen.

 

Nevis

Nevis, the place to be...

April 2008 |||| I might consider Nevis in the Eastern Caribbean Sea, the place to be.

 

Saba

Saba, a rock sticking out

March 2008 |||| A couple of sharks were visible out in the blue but only so you could barely see them.....

 

How is Curacao?

How is Curaçao?

January 2008 |||| He scratched his head and knowing it would be illegal, replied: “We just do it at night!”

 

I meet the devil himself

I meet the devil himself

November 2007 |||| 10.000 dollars is a lot of money and there were no way I could pay that. With out a blink of an eye Mr. Foyt said that he was going to impound Solitude until I had paid the fine.

 

Web radio Curacao

Last months in Caribbean

May 2007 |||| The sail back to Curacao was the best sail I had so far, the wind was perfect, very little waves and two happy not seasick friends.

 

Crossing of a sea

Crossing of a sea

April 2007 |||| With an instant they were 1 mile away and we went back to our course to Curacao still with no wind.

 

Looking back

Looking back...

April 2007 |||| We were just sailing and the world could have exploded with out us knowing. When we finally arrived in Puerto Plata I didn’t even feel like going on the internet.

 

British Virgin Islands

British Virgin Islands

March 2007 |||| After 3 days of rolling back and forth in Roadtown, Tortola I had enough and sailed 6 miles south to Deadmans Bay by Peter Island.

 

Cruising Bahamas

Cruising through the islands

February 2007 |||| The Flemming Channel was in sight in the morning and for the next 5 hours we cruised on the most beautiful turquoise water, all we had to watch out for was coralheads and the depth sounder.

 

Getting ready for adventure

Getting ready for adventure

January 2007 |||| Zack, the autopilot man called this morning. With my lungs not moving I carefully listen to him explain that the 3500 dollars autopilot, had been fixed and was up and running, best news I heard in a while.

 

S/Y Solitude

Finding "Solitude"

December 2006 |||| In the search of a sailboat, my dream for the past five years, I made around 100 phone calls and spend hours talking to people with boats, we drove over 1000 miles to look for different sailboat.

 

Seach for a boat

The search for a sailboat

December 2006 |||| At the moment I'm interested in around 10 sailboats all with inboard motor and around 40 feet in length. 6 of these 10 I really like but it's very difficult.

 

Chile

Chile, South America

January 2003 |||| During the night the wind picked up and almost blew the tent to pieces. I was outside to fix the damn tent 3 times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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