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A small dark-hulled ship at anchor in a fjord at dusk, lights on, hills behind
Port 01Bergen · 11 h ashore
612
nautical miles · seven ports

Ports, not products.

48 guests. Seven ports. Nine hours ashore in each.A ship small enough to tie up at the town quay, and a timetable that treats the port as the point. No casino, no buffet, no sea day sold as a feature.

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01 · The line

Seven cleats. One rope.

0
hours ashore · whole sailing
Bergen · alongside 07:00The fish market opens at seven. So do we. The gangway goes down where the ferries dock, three minutes from the first stall.
A varnished teak rail along a ship's side, sea and low hills beyond
02 · The ship

Small on purpose.

48

guests. Twenty-four cabins, one deck, everyone knows the way to the bridge.

3.8 m

draught. Deep enough for weather, shallow enough for the town quay.

1

dining room. One sitting, one menu, bought in the last port.

0

casinos, atriums, art auctions, or announcements after nine.

A stone harbour wall running out to a red beacon under a grey sky

Tie up where the ferries do.

Big ships anchor out and tender you in at ten. We come alongside at seven, in the middle of town, and the gangway stays down until the last restaurant closes.

Sailings

Three sailings. A year.

Each one runs once, in the month the ports are best. We don't repeat a route in a season and we don't sail in the months the locals leave.

May · 8 nights · Norwegian coastBergen to TromsøSeven ports · 612 nautical miles · north

Fish market, island churches, a town that runs on the mail boat. Midnight on deck in daylight.

From £4,900 · cabin for two
September · 7 nights · Adriatic islandsSplit to KotorSeven ports · 380 nautical miles · south

Stone harbours at the end of the season. The restaurants stay open for us and then close for winter.

From £4,400 · cabin for two
June · 6 nights · HebridesOban to StornowaySix ports · 290 nautical miles · west

Distilleries, machair, a whisky bought at the quay. Weather is a port too. We wait for it.

From £3,900 · cabin for two
What a port gets

What nine hours buys.

Most ships give a port four hours and a shuttle bus. We give it a working day. That changes what you can do in it.

Thick mooring rope wound around a yellow bollard on a quay
07:00
AlongsideBefore the town wakes. Coffee is ashore, not aboard.
09:00
One walk, with someone localTwo hours, eight people, no flag. Then you're on your own.
13:00
Lunch is your problemWe give you three addresses. The kitchen doesn't cook lunch on port days.
16:00
ProvisioningThe chef goes shopping. Dinner is what the port had. You'll see it come aboard.
22:00
Gangway upSailing is overnight. You wake up somewhere else and never lose a day to it.
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Twenty-four cabins.

Tell us which sailing. We'll hold a cabin for seven days while you check the dates, and send the deck plan with the cabin number pencilled in. No deposit to hold.

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