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Hi everyone, hope you're doing good! Sorry that I don't have that much to tell you about! I haven't been able to put out a video because the last couple weeks have been stressful with lots of translation work and all around just busy trying to keep my life together..! I also rented a car and drove to Netherlands and spent a week there looking at several boats. There were only two that I was really interested in, but I had a look at a few others just to get a better idea on what's available on the market. For those of you that are interested in the technical stuff, I looked at two different Van de Stadt Normans, a Reinke S11 and couple Koopmans designs (the latter mostly just for fun).

Unfortunately due to my indecisiveness and some problems dealing with a broker, a quite promising aluminum boat that I inspected was snatched by another buyer. We've now been actively looking for over half a year and I've also spent a decent amount of $€$€$$ (for travelling etc) and especially time during this process. I really wanted to have the "next" boat by this winter so that we could spend a bit of time sailing it and getting a feel of what needs to be fixed/upgraded, before setting off to Iceland/Greenland etc. But now I feel like this winter might not be attainable anymore, so it is all quite frustrating...

Anyway, I've been collecting some video material throughout this whole process and I think it'll be interesting and useful.

I'm now still in Denmark and because of everything happening I haven't really been able to move during the last two weeks. Now that it seems like we might not have the "next" boat this winter yet I'm also torn between what I should do / where should I sail this winter.. Any suggestions?! 

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Jon Skogdalen

Seilsamvirket Nora Simrad did have their Cigale for sale in Asia, but I can not find it on finn.no anymore.

David C

Thanks for the update and best of luck on searching for a boat!