Yachting Monthly

To Bergen at last

Julian Mustoe completed a 10-year solo circumnavigation in 2012, which he wrote about in his book Voyage of the Harrier. He now owns Zephyrus.

When approached from seaward, the coast of the central part of Norway, known as Fjordland, appears to be a continuous line of small, irregular mountains. It was August and I had just motor-sailed my Hunter Horizon 26, 200 miles across the North Sea in calm weather, and arrived five miles off the Norwegian coast at dusk. All seemed to be in order, but in a spirit

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