June 23rd, Thursday, we left Shetland at 01:45 (am.) when the wind changed to north. After the first couple of hours of sailing under full sails, wind picked up to Force 5 - 6 and we had to cross the North Sea mostly under two reefed main sail and staysail, with a little bit of jib out. I must say I could only enjoy seeing some lights on the oil platforms in the night, otherwise, it was not a very pleasent feeling to be at the North Sea. We reached Haugesund, Norway on Friday evening at 9 pm. and sailed the last couple of miles slowly under staysail finding our way amongst the rocks and skerries .
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| track through the oil fields |
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| entry to Haugesund from North Sea |
Sean was attracted to a boat he saw, one of the original Colin Archer sailing lifeboats and could not wait to moor next to it.
Once we had our Shengen entry stamps , we took our yellow flag down and after some rest , we started to head south.
Sean was attracted to a boat he saw, one of the original Colin Archer sailing lifeboats and could not wait to moor next to it. 
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