Sailing Galápago

I've been dreaming of sailing ever since dad took me and my two brothers on a boat cruise around the Galápagos islands. This was way back in 1975. I was nine years old. The Galápagos was still intouched by mass tourism, and we had the islands and the passageway between them all by ourselves.

Fast forward to summer 2021. The previous year, I purchased my third sailboat, a Beneteau Oceanis 343. I live in Oslo, but the new boat had it's current home in Sandnessjøen, in the middle of sailing paradise of Northern Norway. With me, I now had my son. He joined me to experience this wonderful piece of nature, sailing along the coast and all the way to Oslo.

What a journey it was. And the island of Træna resembled the magnificant island of Bartolomè. The circle had closed, but the story continues.

In 2022 my new-born grandchild joined me, so we sailed on easy waters: the Göta channel in Sweden.

- Christian Willoch, sailor on sea, sailor in life.