Norway Charter Itinerary

Norway Itinerary

Norway Yacht Charter
The Norwegian coast is fifty-eight thousand miles long once you count the fjords and islands, which is roughly two and a half times around the earth. It is also, thanks to the Gulf Stream, ice-free all year at a latitude that ought to be frozen solid.





This route runs south from Ålesund to Bergen along the outer coast and into the fjords that cut it. Waterfalls fall directly into salt water. The mountains rise fifteen hundred metres straight from the anchorage. In June the light barely leaves.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read Norway; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Ålesund

Ålesund burned to the ground in 1904 and was rebuilt, at speed, entirely in the Art Nouveau style then in fashion ’ turrets, spires and stucco, all of a piece, spread across three islands. Climb the steps to Aksla for the view over the town and out to the Sunnmore Alps. Sail south in the evening.
Day 2

Stranda

Stranda sits under mountains that drop straight into the Storfjord, and the anchorage is deep enough that a yacht can lie close under the cliff. Mountain bike the slopes in summer, or take the road up Strandafjell for the view down the fjord system. The water is black, cold and perfectly still.
Day 3

Geirangerfjord

The Geirangerfjord is fifteen kilometres of S-bend between walls fourteen hundred metres high, UNESCO listed and among the most photographed places in Europe. The Seven Sisters fall as seven separate streams; the Suitor faces them across the water. Kayak beneath them. Abandoned farms cling to ledges nobody could reach today.
Day 4

Måløy

Måløy is a fishing and export harbour on the outer coast, and the sea here is a different proposition ’ open Atlantic, and the weather arrives with no warning. Fish for cod and herring, climb Veten for the view, and see the Kannesteinen, a rock the waves have carved over millennia into something like a mushroom.
Day 5

Florø

The westernmost town in Norway, set among an archipelago of low skerries and lighthouses. Take a lighthouse safari ’ several are still manned, some let rooms ’ or kayak between the islands in water that is glassy in the lee and lively everywhere else. The Coastal Museum handles the shipbuilding and the herring properly.
Day 6

Flåm

Flåm lies at the head of the Aurlandsfjord, an arm of the Sognefjord, and the Nærøyfjord beside it narrows to two hundred and fifty metres with cliffs on both sides. Ride the Flåm railway ’ twenty kilometres, nine hundred metres of climb, and a waterfall stop that is pure theatre. Then back to the water.
Day 7

Bergen

Bergen was the Hanseatic League’s northern trading post, and Bryggen ’ the wooden wharf, leaning, burnt and rebuilt a dozen times ’ is UNESCO listed. The fish market is the obvious lunch. Take the funicular up Fløyen for the whole city and its seven mountains. It rains here. Bergen has made peace with that.

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