Sailing to Svalbard across the Barents Sea - my first ocean passage [ep8] 

Thanks for watching, hope you're doing fine during these times! We're still in northern Norway, where COVID19 restrictions are slowly being lifted. Boat life resumes almost as normal, except that friends and family from Finland can't visit me right now. Next summer's cruising plans are potentially ruined, but that's a small complaint in the grand scale of things! 🙂 PS. The year (2018) shown at the beginning of the video is wrong , oops! This happened in 2019 ;) I'm currently going through old footage in chronological order and in about a month I think I'll be able to start posting real time updates.

No doubt this is one of the most interesting sailing channels out there. Keep up that wonderful work! Greetings from snow starving Austria.

What a refreshing change to the bikini-overloaded RU-vid sailing channel family.

To all those who disliked this video, try to live a bigger life and pause to admire people like this who still preserve a sense of wonder and adventure!

Wow. Great times. Good friends. Epic scenery. You’re the real deal.

Gorgeous footage. Over 100 belugas in one spot! That would be my heaven! 👍🏽🙏🏽

Walk a differnet path whilst you still can, open cockpit sailing in the Artic reminds me of sailing an open 60 to Antarctica, cold wet beautiful and just a little edgy. keep the videos coming loved your vid on heating solid and practical. I did Antarctica without heating it was worse than horrible the yacht was wet and cold and the only place to dry gear was the motor one of the reasons I use lots of wool gear. Was thinking of taking my alloy Kestallo 42 down to Tassie for a lap and think that little diesel heater looks great or maybe a toploading coal stove. My last trip across the southern ocean I only used candles to burn off the moisture not really enough when your hoveto in a storm for days on end. Would like to see loads more of your boating backyard, its still on my bucket list. Nice work

Such an amazing video. You are truly living the life. To see that kind of wild life in their natural environment is spectacular. People will pay thousands of dollars to see that and you get to experience it for free. All I can say is amazing.

Thank you so much for sharing this, the landscape up there is absolutly amazing

You my friend are living a life that I have dreamed of having. Maybe one day I'll get to have such an experience like yours, but with the amount of knowledge that you have I would be old by then. Still worth picturing and imagining it. Thank you for sharing your experience.

amazing journey and things you’re seeing along the way!

Truly amazing footage...what a wonderful experience.

Waw, awesome video and quite a spectacular scenery ! Good luck and I'm looking forward to see the next episode !

I wish you a lot of Adventure, Pleasure and the right Wind of course!! Youre Videos are Pieces of Art too, i like watching them. Thanks

Beautiful images! All the animals, the white snow/ice, the water so crisp and clear like glass. I wish I could have seen that with my own eyes. Thank You for sharing!

As I am reading The His Dark Materials series, just finishing up Northern Lights, this video brings me so much joy!

Very nice! Summer cruising plans are most likely changed for all of us, we just need to replan and go with the flow, what ever that has to offer. It's a time to adapt and enjoy what we have :-) Thanks for sharing some great videos!

It feels as if the time is nearing for us to step off our off-grid small farm to set sail. Watching you channel really made the arctic region sound very appealing. Very tempting, great content and we love your sense of adventure.

Man this is sick! Amazing scenery and overall mood. Ice patches, species and a carbine over the shoulder.

You really make sailing in cold places look fun. We do Patagonia next year on our sailboat...and we are praying our Cubic Mini woodstove, an engine heater and a little backup kerosene stove keep us warm on the boat, so we can have fun like you are! -Rebecca

Your videos are the line connecting dream with reality! Keep going!

Looks like the the best of both worlds, sailing and skiing. Love your channel Bee safe.

That is an awesome adventure mate - keep them coming!

Breathtaking natural beauty and wild life . this video makes my day in bored quarantaine !!!! Tanks my friend . Greetings from Belgium .

Amazing scenery. So serene.

wonderful videos,thanks a lot.

Das sind wunderschöne und beeindruckende Bilder! Ich finde es aber auch toll, wenn du nur auf dem Boot stehst und am Morgen Schnee schaufelst. Du hast ein besonderes Gefühl für Stimmungen. Vielen Dank!

Hello from brazil. I never see ice in my life ( here no snow). You is my inspiration. Thanks to my happy day. Nice video and amazing places.

Amazing adventure! Thank you for sharing.

Amazing !!! Strange to see sailing, skiing, wildlife, all combined.... thanks !!!

THis is great! Cant wait to see your friends documentary!

Hi Sorry to bother you in case that you still keep and eye on these old videos. I've started at your beginning as your "up to date" ones are always leaving wanting more. I have a difficult time to find your friend Hiro's documentary of this adventure to Svalbard. Skiing and all isn't my jam, but I enjoy your outings even so. What I wanted to see more of was your animal encounters and the research work as well. I hope that you are all well out there somewhere around Alaska by now. Your travels through that channel in Canada (I believe) was among the most beautiful places I've ever seen, and my family sailed Höga Kusten and Sankt Annas Skärgård and more, when I was young. I do know about the timbers though as they were plentiful in and around Kvarken. (Sorry, all these places are in the archipelagoes in Sweden, and to some extent Finland.) Our boat was mahogany, and as the oldest non commissioned child, I've been on many a timber watch in my time. Yours, Ann

wow sailing, trekking, skiing in one video. I'ts awesome.

Amazing and inspirational! Thanks for sharing.

That's what call living, well done!

I'm so happy that I found this channel. 💕

Some of the most amazing footage I’ve ever watched!

Complimenti... ! Un Panorama bellissimo... Tutto quel bianco polare...freddo, colori straordinari.... Cielo, mare e, BELUGA ....., E orizzonti infiniti.....

Oh my! Just what I was hoping to do this year but now probably won’t happen. Great everything. Can’t wait to see next week and your friends “pro” version too. Please let us know where and when we can find it. Thanks again Juho

Bloody awesome young man. Enjoy it, passes in the blink of an eye.

Your videos never fail to disappoint .. can’t wait for the next one 🤘👍

Was getting nervous watching you climb that hill, if you broke anything up in that part of the world the cavalry would be a long time coming and you would probably be on your own, be careful brother and stay safe, dont push it to hard, fantastic video btw

Beautiful images, amazing places, and no one in your crew needs to shoot or kill any animal. That was just awesome.

Good to see the colder regions explored by sail. Nice videos. 👍

Gotta love the shots with so many Beluga whales! Very cool 😎

Spectacular! What a wonderful place on this beautiful earth. Loved the skiing. Please provide the information on your friend’s documentary. I’d really like to see it.

So, well worth it, Juho. This footage! Wow, Even if it is from some while ago, got me behind my laptop in the brakes that moment nearly upon the rocks there:) Thanks for the time to edit and post it!! grtz.

Amazing footage!! Thank you and enjoy 👍👍

I am so pleased to have found your channel today.Thankyou .

Packing the tender with ski stuff is the top!!

great visuals of very interesting, legendary and rare terrain. holy crap!!!!

"Nautical smiles": I love it!!!

Superb and amazing! Looks like an idyllic place, and skis on a boat-- how cool is that! hoping to at some point. Fair Winds

Fabulous vidéo... Great music. Great scenery. :)

Amazing captain absolutely awesome 👍👍

This is so much better than anything national geographic puts out these days

As I see this was send in April. I saw it only now. Amazing adventure. Thank´s for sharing.

That was awesome. Thank you for sharing.

Awesome video, yet again. Thanks for posting.

Great episode 👍😁

Dang!! That's pretty amazing! I think I would enjoy that more than the warmer climates!

Good afternoon "Friend" :) great stuff!

Looks lovely up there.

beautiful footage!!!

Nice fix for my longing back to Svalbard. We sailed there in a small fiberglass boat. It was so fantastic, we went back the next summer. Now we're home, and our boat is in Panama (we were on our way to Patagonia).

Thanks. The Balugas are absolutely amazing.

excellent photography, thank you!

Superb video and so unusual to see skis on a dinghy ;-)

Beautiful... so jealous... well done fellah 🇮🇪🍀

Just found your channel. Well done! Beautiful scenery.

Great footage, looks like you guys had a hell of a good time.

Happy and felt weird at the same time, I feel like I'm inside the boat bouncing through waves 😊

It is very brave to travel the by a cruiser monohulk. You need to have a vey, very experienced guide to do that. Amazing. This is the time of your life!

Love the video, it's beautiful.

Top video ! 😍

Simply awesome.

Wow....just wow. Every time you release a video I don't think you can better the footage...then you do. Thank you for sharing. UK lockdown makes an adventure out of dodging the police questions about why you stopped for a breath while exercising or surviving a walk around a supermarket. Not recommended. Stay safe.

Beautiful!

very good to see that in this moment^^

To call the Baltic Sea a lake , shows that you are quite good at what you do :) The Baltic Sea can be quite challenging at times . Good for you:)

Really interesting trip. Keep sailing, exploring and having fun! Stay warm on your boat! -Rebecca on SV Brick House

Inspirational! Thank you!

Another fantastic video, thanks so much for sharing. Hope you're doing well at the moment and aren't affected too much - Emily from Two Get Lost

Thanks for the video, I'm so in love with the Svalbard islands. Nice way to skimountaineer them by sailing boat. Better than by snowmobile in Atomfjella.

Que imágenes increíblemente bellas !!

Excellent, And thank you for putting this together. I think I recognize, maybe, some of those slopes. By any chance was the skiing in Magdalenefjorden? Love the videos.

Stunning

Nice, thanks for sharing!

Sultans of sail!

The wildlife! Wow! Would love to go skiing with my son. Where I live doesn't have snow sports because we don't have much snow 🙈😁

Fantastic. Thank you

Thank you for this nice video!

Pretty cool footage. Looks like you had a great adventure. I am sure there are not many people that can say "I skied down hill in the arctic circle on Svalbard Island"! Thanks for sharing.

How do you not have 100k subs? Awesome trip, really cool (literally and figuratively) 😁😂⛵️

Great to see this.

I always loved cruising to the North during the summer to beat the crowds in Maine. My last summer in Labrador and Newfoundland I didn't see another cruising sailboat for four months after I left Halifax. During my circumnavigation, I visited Iceland, the Faroes, the Shetlands and on to the Southern Ocean, and the inside passage in B.C. Do yourself a favor and beat the crowds in popular low latitude cruising grounds by exploring the North. You won't regret it I guarantee you.

Majestic ❤️ I love Belugas soooo much✨🐋

Wow, awesome wildlife! And the skiing looked really sweet, too! Is it scary to sail through ice or do you get used to it with growing experience on how to spot and avoid it?

Fantastic Juho thanks for sharing. Stunning scenery and wildlife. I noticed someone carrying a rifle, I assume for Polar a Bears. Did you see any signs of bears? Andy UK

So much fun ty from New Zealand🤍