Time to leave the winter behind

April 25th - April 30th Orkanger - Brekstad 

On April 28th the most important items was checked of the to do list and Rulten (and I) was ready to leave the rainy Orkanger behind with hopes for brighter conditions on the coast.

With temperatures on the rather chilly side I had to pack my already significant body into quite a bulk of clothing to stay warm.

As it was weather got brighter further out the fjord.

After lunch on the day of departure from Orkanger (the 28th of April) the boat officially became my main office for the coming months, but the two days at Brekstad became the first full days. 

In the evening after work I got this kind of views - the ferry dock in the background doesn't look industrial at all with a sailing ship through the sunset.

Even the bathroom run in the morning became something quite nice.

The sailing ship Motig was originally a diesel motored fishing boat built by Gjert Eidesvik Skipsbyggeri in Rosendal in Hardanger in 1930. The boat was this first boat the legendary Leif (Shetlands) Larsen crossed the North Sea with bringing himself and others wanted by the Germans to safety to Lerwick on Shetland in February of 1941. Actually Larsen and his gang came to Turøy in the Bergen archipelago in a small motorboat not suited for crossing the North Sea in winter so they in essence stole the boat for the crossing. After the war Motig was returned to its owners and continued fishing for the next decades. In 2006 the boat was purchased by Harald Krogstad in Trondheim who rebuilt her as a sailing cutter and brought her to the pretty state she is at now.