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a year ago the family left Lien/Nordhagen, who we got to know in two seasons of the series “Flaskepost from the Pacific ocean”, Norway on course for Portugal, and the Caribbean.
Dramatically for coronafast NRK-family
– Now we are almost home after a voyage that was completely different than what we had imagined, ” says captain Thomas Lien on board the sailboat “Vaki Vaki” to the Newspaper on the phone from Scotland.
Corona and disease
Together with his wife Susann Nordhagen and children Ivi and Jack left the movie director Lien from their home country to experience new adventures and make a new season of “Flaskepost”-the adventure – but this time from the Atlantic ocean.
GALE: Thomas Lien to take a picture of your party in the “Ali Baba” before the weather really was bad. Photo: Private Show more
– After coronaen struck, we were sat on many trials.
-We had to cancel, suspend and change many plans. We lay coronafast in two months in The dominican republic, ” says Lien.
FATHER AND DAUGHTER: Thomas Lien and a daughter, Ivi, as we know from the NRK tv-series “Flaskepost from the Pacific ocean”. Photo: Private Show more
So was his wife ill, and had operated in the abdominal area due to a severe inflammation.
Met with the “Ali Baba”
Where they were also arrested and locked up in a harbour together with a number of other sailors from all over the world, before the in June got to leave the archipelago with stevn against the united STATES and Florida. In South Carolina met Lien-the family sailing yacht “Ali Baba” and his nephew Jørgen Brevik with the crew.
Nephew was also with the “Flaskepost”series.
GREENLAND: Dronefoto of “Vaki Vaki” in a near by, where Eirik the Red founded the first settlement around 1000 years ago. Photo: Private Show more
– Jørgen and his friends have been out on a cruise around South America and Cape Horn in two years. We agreed to keep together the last part of the journey, and headed north toward New York and in the direction of Canada. We rented bikes and walked around in an almost folketomt New York city, a ghost town, ” says Lien.
– Was refused to get in the country
your party was the whole time a little in advance of the strictest coronarestriksjonene, and had acted and come in the country. Now it was bikinis and swimwear replaced by woollen garments, termodresser and waterproof vindtøy.
WILD, wonderful AND WET: the Sailors had to pass the violent ice masses. Fascinating, but dangerous. Photo: Private Show more
the Trip went now on to Newport, and then to Newfoundland and the city of St. John’s.
” We got permission to bunkre and buy food, but didn’t get to go in the country. We took the opportunity to pull slightly on your legs and swim, but then got a telling off from the immigrasjonsmyndighetene.
Bikini against woollen garments
Here began the gravity again. The sea directly north towards Greenland is at this time of year, full of ice, but with ice charts and warm clothes, put the in July heading toward the southern tip of the vast iskontinentet.
NRK-the SAILORS: Here, the family has changed out of the bikini and the town’s small streets with woollen garments. From v. Ivi, Susann, Jack and Thomas. Photo: Private Show more
– After two weeks, which went very well, we arrived at Greenland.
– We sail between the ice into the south side of Greenland, where Eirik the Red founded the first settlement around 1000 years ago. My sister and her husband, parents to Jørgen, signed up to be on the last through strenuous journey.
Storm and dangerous waves
Now was the target Island and the fastest way to Norway and Oslo, ” says Lien. But the forces of nature, it would not so. Powerful winds made it impossible to go north east towards Iceland.
CHANNEL: Here resier procession through Scotland via the caledonian canal. Photo: Private Show more
– We had to fall off and the bow pointed towards Africa, he says:
the Wind did not, and we got two weeks and three kulingperioder by storm in the castes. The waves were eight meters, and ten meters as the highest. We found it dramatically. A hatch to the baugpropellen loosened, and we feared that it could lead to water intake.
Soon at home again
Thomas Lien tells that it gave a certain security that there were two boats in his company. They were in værets violence now, but the wind turned so that they could add the course to Scotland. When the Newspaper talk with the Lien, they are soon through the scottish Caledoniakanalen.
– Now only remains sjarmøretappen, ” says a relieved and happy captain.
SCOTLAND: Finally, over a stridig Atlantic. From left: Julie Marie Skaanes, Eirik Bommo, Maud Elisabeth Dedichen, Christian Brevik, Marianne Lien, Ivi Lien, Susann Nordhagen, Jack Lien, Thomas, Lien and Jørgen Brevik. Photo: Private Show more
Although the north Sea can be unpredictable, it is nevertheless only a fis in relation to what we have been through. Next weekend we sail hopefully into the Oslo fjord. Then shall the children back to school, ” says Lien, who is glad that the whole family got to experience the return trip over the sea and did not travel home from Canada by plane.
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