Seydisfjoerdur and fixing a Halyard

Arriving in Seydisfjoerdur on July 9th at four a clock we didn’t expect to see anyone until the morning. But thru our binoculars we saw that there were a man standing at the dock. This man was the local customs officer. By previous experience sailing to Iceland, they are strict on going ashore before the proper check-in had been completed. So, after we were tied up, he came onboard to check us in to Iceland. He told us that the he had been contacted by the Icelandic coastguard, informing him that we were on our way to Seydisfjoerdur. This amazed us, on how good control they have, even on pleasure crafts entering Icelandic territory.

After getting a couple hours of sleep and some breakfast we headed out to explore Seydisfjoerdur and its surroundings.

After a walk thru the town, we headed for the mountains. Seydisfjoerdur are surrounded by them, so there were plenty to choose from. And with the blue sky and warm temperature, it couldn’t get much better.

Returning from the trip we ate a delicious fish dinner, before we started working on fixing the snapped genoa halyard. We started by trying to fish a small line thru the mast from the top to the bottom, and after many failed attempts we got it thru. We the pulled the new halyard thru, before Lars lowered himself down the forestay to connect it to the top of the sail.

He got the new halyard attached, but they were still not able to hoist the sail up. We have experienced that the screws holding the furling profile together have backed out before. So, with some brute force by a mallet Lars were able to hammer the sail past the screw so he could screw it back in. Now we were able to hoist the sail all the way up, and the job where complete.

The next morning July 10th, Siri and Atle left the boat and got on a bus to Reykjavik. They would spend a couple of days there, before Siri flew back to Norway and Atle got on a bus to Isafjoerdur to jump back on the boat.

The remaining crew, Bent, Catrine, Marselius, Stein and Lars set sail, to go around the northside of Iceland, but more on that in the next post.