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A sailor aboard Dus, a boat being prepared in Oslo, announces a solo summer passage to Bornholm one week before departure.0:24 The motivation is personal: the skipper is one-quarter Bornholmer, his grandfather Ole — who died last autumn — was from the island, and the family owns a summer house there.0:38 Arriving by sea rather than land has been a lifelong goal.0:54 To prepare Dus for the trip, he has completed a range of work including installing a new chartplotter, a new breaker panel, and other electrical upgrades, plus fitting a new mainsail shackle; a compass installation remains.Watch The planned route runs from Oslo south past Færder fyr, then across to Læsø, Anholt, København, Bornholm, and home via the Swedish coast.1:39 Updates are promised every other day on seilmagasinet.no and social media.1:31

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