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Sailing Insights: How Jon Amtrup sails all year round! ⛵️❄️
January 24, 2026 · 29 min · 3K views · Fredrikstad, Norway
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Jon Amtrup, a Norwegian sailing journalist and professional skipper based in Fredrikstad, sails year-round and logs roughly 12,000 nautical miles annually, targeting at least 100 nautical miles per month.0:00 He has sailed the Norwegian coast top to bottom at least 20 times, including winter passages, and skippers a Swan 48 for 59 North in the Faroe Islands and Iceland.4:03 He also captains Witness, a 76-foot Greenpeace research vessel, on expeditions from Ålesund to Jan Mayen and Svalbard to document seabed life in areas targeted for deep-sea mining.4:13 Amtrup sails aluminum boats exclusively — currently a 40-foot one-off named Njord, built at Valstedts in Denmark, previously an Ovni 435 — citing ice resistance and superior insulation as the practical reasons; at minus 20°C the interior stays warm.7:38 He heats the boat with a Refleks diesel stove that draws no electricity.6:38 For winter sailing he stresses enclosed steering positions, redundant safety plans, weather vigilance, and water and power conservation.10:03 He runs high-latitude sailing courses out of Bodø covering Lofoten and the Vesterålen coast.9:49 For sailors wanting to transit the full Norwegian coast, he recommends spreading the trip over two seasons and joining the Race Tour in Arctic, which departs in early June.17:36
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