Thu
1 May
2025

We cast off yes­ter­day (Wed­nes­day, 30 April) in Lon­gye­ar­by­en with SV Mean­der – Spits­ber­gen under sail 2025 gets under­way! Mar­vell­ous!

It’s ear­ly in the sea­son. This trip is still in the Arc­tic win­ter. Late win­ter, but win­ter, the snow is ever­y­whe­re and the tem­pe­ra­tures are below free­zing.

So we set off in good spi­rits, with Mario at the wheel and Jan at the pots, to men­ti­on names that might still be fami­li­ar to tho­se who have been on the Mean­der in recent years. Of cour­se, there’s also Fabi­an, Mar­tin and Nane. And me and ele­ven peo­p­le who have a tas­te for Arc­tic natu­re.

The first leg took us north to Skans­buk­ta, whe­re we also made our first shore lea­ve of the trip today. Skans­buk­ta in win­ter dress, beau­tiful and quite dif­fe­rent from what it usual­ly looks like!

The tra­vel blog will con­ti­nue to be updated over the next few days. And if this whe­ts your appe­ti­te, you are wel­co­me to join us on Mean­der in July, as we still have a few places available from 10 to 18 July (Ger­man spea­king trip). Get in touch if you are inte­res­ted to jon us on that one! Other­wi­se, pret­ty much ever­y­thing is ful­ly boo­ked.

Click on thumb­nail to open an enlar­ged ver­si­on of the spe­ci­fic pho­to.

Tue
18 Mar
2025

In this glo­rious wea­ther we just had to go, and one area we always like to visit is the east coast of Spits­ber­gen, here Mohn­buk­ta. Crisp -20 degrees, blue sky, blue-green ice … mar­vell­ous!

Click on thumb­nail to open an enlar­ged ver­si­on of the spe­ci­fic pho­to.

One more reason for a tour is, of cour­se, when you have a nice visi­tor. In this case, we were joi­n­ed by Ser­ge, who I’m sure some of you will remem­ber fondly as the cap­tain of SV Anti­gua in recent years. I am all the more plea­sed that Ser­ge will remain with us even wit­hout Anti­gua: as cap­tain, he will also accom­pa­ny seve­ral of our trips on SV Mean­der in sum­mer 2025! 😃👍

Ser­ge (right) and Rolf are loo­king for­ward to eating in Lon­gye­ar­by­en 😋
After 10 hours at -20 degrees, you don’t look quite as crisp as usu­al … 😵‍💫