The weather is incredible. The last few days the thermometer on land has risen to 31° in the shade. And it's absolutely calm. We constantly have to water the deck, otherwise it dries out. Life on board only takes place on deck. Even at 10 pm in the evening it's still 25°. We feel like we're in the Mediterranean. The fantastic scenery of the Lofoten Islands, which merge into the Vesteralen Islands to the north, is a bonus.

We make a brief stop in Nyksund, a former fishing village that slowly deteriorated into a ghost town after it was abandoned. It has now been revitalised by tourism and some artists who have settled there. The Dagmar Aaen does not fit into the small harbour due to its draught, so we send the dinghy ashore.
We then continue along the west coast to carry out measurements with the CTD depth probe. The exposed west coast is fully exposed to storms and swell and can only be navigated in good weather. If we were to sail westwards from here, the first land we would encounter would be Greenland.

We are curious to see what the analysis of the measurement data will show. We head back to the mainland via Andenes into the sheltered inner fairway. The weather remains consistently fine.

Our next destination is Tromsö, "The Gateway to the Arctic" as it is known.

Position: 69.131236, 16.519318