About the project

A life between harbour, sea, and height

This is the story of picking up again an idea that began in Horta, came to a hard stop, and is now being built back up with Marthine as home, base, and direction.

This project is not about squeezing two hobbies into the same website. For me, sailing and running belong together. It is the transition between them that makes it interesting: coming into harbour, tying up, going ashore, looking up at a mountain, and feeling that the day is not over after all. That is where the whole thing really lives.

In short, this is a site about building something up again without stressing it to death. About living inside the project while it takes shape, and about getting sailing and running to belong together for real. And a little about keeping my spirits up while I wrench, train, tidy, and try not to make things any more foolish than they already are.

Where this comes from

I was born and raised on an island in Southern Norway and have been used to boats since before I could walk. I got my first sailboat when I was nine, and several more have followed since then. I have sailed a great deal up and down the Norwegian coast, lived for several years in an earlier boat, and had large parts of my life with salt water, rope, and weather as background noise. So sailing is not something this project suddenly invented. It is just an old rhythm being given a little more space.

Where running entered the picture

I got bitten by running early in my twenties and have more or less not looked back since. Over time, it was the longer outings that started to pull the hardest, and what still gives me the most is running in the mountains. Something special happens there. It is not necessarily the longest outings that stay with me best afterwards, but often the ones where terrain, weather, and the view come together in the right way.

Why Horta matters so much

In 2017 I helped bring a sailboat home from Horta in the Azores. Before we sailed away, I ran from the quay up to the summit and back down again. Later I went for another run when we reached Brest. It was not some grand revelation there and then, but something stayed with me. I felt how right it was to arrive somewhere by sea and continue up into the landscape on my own feet. That was where the idea started to take shape.

Why it is happening now

I tried to start a trip like this in 2018, but it came to a pretty abrupt stop. First came the injuries on board, and shortly afterwards I tore tendons in my ankle when I tried to run again. After that it took a long time to come back. Running disappeared from daily life for a while, and a lot since then has been about patience, physiotherapy, and rebuilding something that does not just sort itself out. In November 2025 I bought Marthine. She is not just transport in this project, but home, workshop, workplace, and the whole frame around what is going to happen next. There is a lot of maintenance to take care of, and I try to get a little done every day between work and training. It does not move fast, but it does move forward. That actually suits me quite well. I like challenges, but I do not feel any need to pretend that everything has to happen at full speed. Better steady and properly done than big and short-lived. The goal is to get the boat ready, sail south to Portugal, and from there return to Horta in the spring of 2027, ten years after the idea first appeared. Then I want to run the same route again. After that the journey continues north, stopping wherever there are good outings ashore, preferably up into the mountains. This is allowed to take the time it takes.

What you will find on the different pages

Journey

The main thread: the background, where the project stands now, and where it points next.

Running & mountains

Both Strava traces and outings that deserve a little more than numbers and a line on a map.

Boat life

The engine room, cool box, rig, deck, order on board, and all the jobs that are not especially glamorous but very important.

Journal

Shorter texts about pace, body, waiting, calm, irritation, and the small things that hold the project together.

Marthine

The boat's history, the type, the ferro-cement hull, and why this particular boat means so much in the project.