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In my opinion, this show has evolved into the best adventure on KZfaq.

As a sailor, seeing you at 10:54 without being strapped to the boat with a safety harness really made me shiver! Recording a video is one thing, but safety as a lone sailor is the most important!!

Deep respect Erik you are an inspiring sailor. I enjoy your documentation of your adventures very much indeed. One of the best real sailing channels on KZfaq. Excellent!

Brilliant Erik. One of your best episodes ever (especially considering you are not at full physical strength). You really captured the challenge of solo sailing in challenging weather conditions. Bravo. I've been working on various alternatives of reefing/dropping the mainsail while headed downwind, to avoid having to turn back into high seas and strong winds. I haven't quite mastered it yet, but your video convinced me to keep working at it. Fair winds my friend.

NBJS is one of the few (and the best) SAILING channels. Most others are ‘floating lifestyle in tropical environment stories’. Eriks videos inspire and envourage me as I sail a 33 ft sailboat on the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean (sometimes) too. All the best Erik!

Thank you NordVPN for keeping this inspirational sailor moving. WOW such a strong guy!

Also Erik, thank you so much for allowing us to come along on your great adventure. You are one blessed brave man!

Fantastic video, Erik. The reefing was a bit too exciting 🫣The shots of the Faroese landscape was breath taking. Better than any BBC nature documentary. You outdid yourself this time.

This one is one of the finest, because there is so much fine sailing in tough weather. Brilliant. And I can’t wait for the next one.

Braving FEROCIOUS WEATHER, with 20-30knts of following wind and uncompromising sea/swell, this Viking reduces to bare pole, goes below to eat bacon sandwiches and rests on his bunk. Episodes are few and far between, whose cinematography depicts such heroic seamanship and sailing capabilities, this Viking again out did himself sharing this amazing footage. Sleep well my friend after 40 plus hours of single handed sailing on the terrifying North Atlantic waters during August, you'll need your strength to tackle the passage between ports.

What I love most about his adventures is that they are better than most programmes on terrestrial TV. He inspires people and I know I'd love to do this, he's an amazing and appears to be a down to earth guy. Keep up the good work. Skol

My favorite sailing channel by far! Minimal music other than the natural sounds of the wind and waves, and then well chosen music to enhance the effects of what we’re experiencing with you Erik. Your storytelling abilities are only getting better and better. This is real sailing, and a little bit concerning at times (when reefing without a harness.) But you are living your life to its fullest, and we get so join you vicariously.

Hi Erik, having watched all of your content since you started this channel and never left any comments before, as i rarely comment on anything on line. This current production has compelled me to comment for a number of reasons, the totally imersive nature of your productions, the tenacity to record and document your passages sometimes in the most arduous of situations , the epic cinematography of the landscapes visited, the post production to turn what you capture into such engrossing watchable film, your unwaivering enthusiasm to what you do even in the face of adversity with your illnesses and your humble and genuine nature to camera is magnificent. This channel compared to many of the other sailing related channels that are genrally set in warmer climates with bikini clad eye candy offer no comparison to the gritty true nature of what you present NBJS. Having spent most of my life mountaneering as a hobby i have only recently took up sailing (4 years ago) with my 14 year old son and he too watches your videos with me and is totally inspired by watching you and knowing that you also cut your teeth sailing small dinghys like we do at present (in a topper and a wayfarer) and hopefully we will progress onto bigger vessels. Thank you for your films and we wish you luck with your health so you may continue to make more great content and make it to Greenland !

HELLO ERIK! I'm on a education as a boat builder in Denmark, from Greenland. My journey started in January, and i started from the bottom. Sailing the waters is my ultimate goal! You are a huge inspiration!! I hope you will succeed sailing to Greenland someday!

Your drone work is unparalleled.

Ahhh, the Faroe Islands. Seeing them I get very homesick 😢 Especially my hometown Tórshavn. Always beautiful but rarely sunny 😝 Many thanks for this great video. Can't wait for the next one 👍🏻

I miss the music accompanying sonar beeps from some other videos so good and a must watch for anyone with adventure at their core I just love it thankyou.

love your honesty about health and mental states you include. a great example of manhood, sailor, and documentarian!

finally i found a sailing channel that has actual sailing, i am so glad that it is not a cooking channel or a cook out on the beach with our rich friends or hiking the terrain. a sailor that shows what he is doing to sail the oceans and not having his wife talk about it and look worried, Yep it is man against the sea cooperating with mother nature to travel the oceans. Bravo my friend keep up the good work and the wonderful videos of actual sailing!

You always find the mental energy to shoot footage, even whilst not feeling 100% fit. You fully deserve your channel success. Fair winds. S

Like others have said, this channel just gets better and better. Thank you Erik, and keep staying on the boat :). This last set of videos looks like you've moved to a more natural color rendition on the videos. Looks very nice and natural, though I liked the other desaturated look as well. Cheers!

Erik Aanderaa I hope you understand how many people you’ve impacted along your amazing journeys. This is the type of content we all need, Inspiring 🤙🏼

I enjoyed the video vey much Erik, the seamanship and good spirits you maintain in adversity are admirable.… But Erik, I could not take my eyes off the small shackle that retains your upper mainsheet block to the boom. In the conditions you were in the strain on that fitting is enormous and I cannot imagine the disaster onboard if that shackle (or the fitting under the boom) breaks. Loosing the connection between mainsheet and boom would be catastrophic. Please double it up somehow, maybe with a soft shackle through the block to another fitting under the boom or some other form of backup. On a 50 foot trimaran I experienced the breakage of a stainless “D” ring the thickness of my thumb connecting a mainsheet block to the boom in similar conditions. Luckily, the mainsheet ran along the boom to another block so we did not loose the boom. But you don’t have that option. Please be safe, and my apologies for the unsolicited advice.

Another fascinating, jaw dropping adventure. You're absolutely crazy. I think my neighbours heard me screaming at the TV to put your safety harness on. Honestly, I got cliffhanger sweaty hands when you went forward to start reefing the mainsail, and then that huge wave came rolling in. That was really scary stuff, and I'm just watching. But yes I understand the reasons you don't utilise the safety harness all the time. It's still scary stuff though. Last night my partner watched the episode as well. Right from the get go she was like, why is this man out there doing all that on his own, is he crazy. When I explained your health issues to her she then seen for herself how brave, committed and dedicated you really are. You're an amazing man Erik. I've nothing but the height of respect for you.

An excellent episode Erik, in keeping with some of your early episodes with their great mix of adventure and good videography! Couldn't agree more with you about what one does on lone, difficult passages: eat, sleep (or try to sleep), work hard, and drink a lot of water! "Been there, done that!" During those long, rough passages, that's about all the is to do! Of course you know I'm going to rant about you not wearing your PFD and snapping onto jacklines. I KNOW it slows a person down a bit but when you're out there alone, it's dark, the seas are 3-4 meters, the deck is wet, the boat is pitching up/down and side to side, they're absolutely essential to your safety. All it takes is one misstep, one twisted ankle, or one moment of misdirection for you to fall, or be tossed, overboard and since you and I both sailing in very cold waters, we're very well aware that if it's cold, dark, and you're alone and go overboard, that's how you're going to die: cold, dark, and alone. I had a crew member slip on the deck, land on his ass, slide across the entire wet deck, and almost go overboard about 10 years ago. Only thing that saved him was the lifelines. Of course, there were 3 people on the boat and I'm sure the other 2 of us could have gotten him back onboard but after 5-10 minutes in the water, he would lose the use of his hands and probably couldn't grip onto the boarding ladder, which would mean we'd have to hoist him out of the water using a halyard, and a block and tackle I keep onboard. That would mean I'd have to get into my survival suit, attach a line to myself, get in the water, attach the line from the block and tackle to him (since he can't really use his fingers to open and close a carabiner), and have the onboard crew member hoist him out. Then, I'd have to try to get out of the water and onto the boarding ladder in my survival suit. Do you see how difficult this would be for even 3 people on a boat? Now, imagine you going overboard, by yourself, at night, with the auto vane steering Tessie away from you at 6.5 knots. To put it mildly, you're going to die. The boat's not coming back to you. When I solo sail, I snap on when it starts getting a little rough. Like less than a meter seas. I also snap my personal locator beacon onto my D-ring on the self inflating life vest, I also snap my DeLorme inReach on, so I can just hit the SOS button, in case I do go overboard on the downwind side and get dragged by the boat. Because I have an autopilot with a waterproof remote, I also snap that on, so that I can steer the boat toward the shore so that PERHAPS she'll run aground and I can then make it to shore and out of our cold Alaskan waters. I leave nothing to chance Erik and so should you...

You know, you should really be a film producer. Your talent for content creation and cinematography is literally unmatched.

Thanks for another great and Awsome Video like you always have done before! ... but however I do not agree with the not wearing the safety harness. What does it matter if the harness can slow you down if you may end up outboard of your sailboat? Safety harness is paramount for safety in all weather conditions. Please do not forget to use specially when you admitted you were not on top physical shape ... please be Careful out in the Ocean.

Your art and brave deeds are epic treasures. You set the bar very high. Thank you 🙏

Breathtaking video with fantastic filming and an incredibly resilient captain - thank you so much!

Well that was a wild ride. Very enjoyable to watch if a little sketchy at times.

Those seas are not as dangerous as the food you used to eat. Good to see the banana and the apple! Stay healthy!

I found this video just now, and even though I am not into sailing and I am terrified of the sea, I couldn't stop watching it. It is like a documentary made by professionals. The details, the quality, everything is amazing!

Tack ännu en fanastiskt spännande och välproducerad film! Du lever verkligen upp till ditt motto: NBJS! The viking spirit lives on!

I held my breath when you had to take down the main sail without your safety harness in extreme rough weather. Erik Aanderaa is the blueprint of what the ancient Vikings were made of! 👍👍👍THUMBS UP VIDEO ALL DAY ALL THE TIME👍👍👍

That´s real sailing, like a real viking! Not like all the other YT sparetime sailors that you see. Good man!

What an incredible adventure. I love your viking spirit and your film making skills. Many thanks.

Appreciate a sailing channel that actually sails and not just talks about the sunny places they arrive at.

What an amazing trip. Thank you for taking us with you

This is one of the most tense videos !!! Thanks for sharing ! You just missed the beer when you arrived ! Cheers Viking !

Spectacular!! You make me yearn for my County Clare Irish roots! Peace and safe travels. Sean Molony. Astrophotographer

Outstanding as always Erik. Not only a great adventure, but fantastic video as well. But go ahead and dig out that harness, eh?

Brilliant Eric, fair winds for the next passage.

Brilliant Erik. How you managed to get those incredible shots in mountainous seas , whilst fighting to stay on your feet, defies description. After the first 5 minutes, my eyes were glued right to the end. Well done.

Erik, teaches us on each adventure to test our knowledge and endurance skills

You are an amazing human being...To do this while in pain, and to bring us along.....Be forever safe...

Smooth seas and fair winds never make a skilled sailor. I admire your Viking spirit. Its hard not to be moved in Iceland and Faroes. Stay safe Erik. Between the flag and the Tinganes building is a small viking sundial carved in the rock. It's small and hard to find but worth looking.

these videos want to make me buy a boat and just sail and be free with the seas and my own toughts and watching these is showing despite the obsticles of weather and health and other things if you put your mind to it you can achieve your goals and fears

The understatement of all your videos......"Oops". Knowing you're safe I can say..."Thank you for sharing the excitement, thrills and yes, trepidation. It was a blast!"

Thanks Erik. Your vlog exemplifies the best in excitement, adventure, vast vistas of beauty and your own place in it as you sail through conditions that would have scared the shit out of me. I would be neglectful if I didn't add that the production value, especially considering the frequency of your posts, is truly remarkable. (An aside .. I've been a Nord VPN user for years without a problem.)

Thank you for another truly spectacular video Erik. I'm exhausted after that one. That jaw thing following dental problems is a complete pain. I had that after surgery and know just what it is like. You just want a proper mouthful of food and can't do it. Of course I didn't have to bash through the north Atlantic with it.

Best sailing channel there is. No comparison to this!

Excellent to see the whole reefing operation...active!! Well done

Unbelievable, amazing feat of skill and courage, and the shear beauty that you capture of the high seas and those incredible Nordic landscapes, breath taking....well done and thank you for sharing. But never take those risks of being unharnessed while venturing out of the cockpit.

Just wonderful Erik! Thanks for bringing us landlubbers along. Sail on sir!💕 Wishing you fair winds and skies.

Love it, love it, love it

I love the colorgrading, it makes it so much better.

Are you a Viking Eric? A warrior? A story teller, videogorapher or a hero? So much more than a sailor! Another amazing video and adventure. Even in poor health nothing stops you or changes your attitude 👏 👏 👏

At 82 I still wish I could be there. I did not enjoy rough weather but I can appreciate that feeling of achievement when one arrives in port.

I watch your channel for incredible landscapes and quaint places I will never see! Thanks for the ride!

amazing everything. Im impressed. The event, the attitude, the editing, the music, the storytelling and the passion. Congrats yet again Erik!!!

Nothing like having to make manual adjustments in the sails at night, where you can't see anything, including any oversize waves that might be coming at you. Your ship must love you very much, because she hasn't sent you overboard. It's also an excellent thing that you know your ship like the back of your hand. Otherwise, I might worry about you!

Mr. Aanderaa you have captured well the waves and motion of the boat, that demonstrates the excitement of sailing that I remember from my youth years. Thank you, so much.

As always , the passion you have not only in sailing but in life comes fluidly through these videos… they are works of art! Praying for your health man ! (Was worried for a sec when your channel ghosted..sucks it got hacked) From one driven man to another it’s awesome to see you push yourself beyond the norm ! Stay strong Erik, we all appreciate what you do🤜

Fantastic Erick . True Viking you are the legend ❤🎉🎉🎉😂.

Just came across you by accident. You are truly inspiring. Your videography is beyond exquisite. Can’t wait to see more!

Erik- Your attitude is so positive and I love it. You’re scaring me though, and it’s only because I don’t want to lose you! I suppose you’ll be doing what you love.

❤ Erik. This is real sailing. Amazing to watch and so appreciative that you offer a pure experience. Be safe. Joanne

Thanks Erik, I enjoyed your adventure greatly.

absolutely one of your best.

Eric ur an incredibly courageous stoic Man, I'm just in awe of ur phenomenal spirit and grace. Thankyou for taking me across the North Atlantic with u. 🇦🇺💪😲🌠

Excellent Eric, deep respect indeed. With nautical greets, Marc

Not ashamed to admit it - every time you head up to the front, in wind and strong wave, I just sort of yell at the screen to clip onto something. We have the footage, so we know all is well, and yet I find myself on the edge of my seat, almost holding my breath until you are back at a lower center of gravity. Bravery I could never muster, Respect I'd never earn. But you have both, in bucketloads.

Very impressed by your navigation. Congratulation for that and the shoutings so real

The landscapes were worth every discomfort along the way. Such raw beauty is something to be seen. Your video's are probably responsible for a sudden influx of tourism. And why not! It's amazing! Thank you Erik.

what a great channel and a nice dude ! Also many people upload in blurry 4k but this 4k here is quite pure ! I'm not only watching it, I'm almost living it.

Cliff hanger! My favorite kind of story! My gawd! What an adventure!!!

You never disappoint Erik. Extraordinary sailing and conditions. Huge discomfort, and you have health issues. A real joy and inspiration to watch. Thank you. ⛵️

Really love Tessie, so clean and kept up. Winches look great! ever think of adding night vision to the cameras so you can see at night? Wish you had made it all the way. Love seeing how you trim the sails and adjust the sheets along that way. people think sailing is just sitting in the cockpit and holding a rope and moving a tiller... :)

Awesome and inspiring. Your courage, challenges, adventures, scenary, video editing, commentary, music and shop are exemplary, without compaison on KZfaq and I watch a 'lot' of sailing channels. All this while not in tip-top shape healthwise is a credit to you. May your adventures long continue !

You make the craziest conditions look like a cake walk. Unless you have sailed, you would never understand how large those waves really are.

Tindholmur off Vagar is the most spectacular island I've ever seen. You have great shots of her. Keep all loose lines coiled & snugged away. Cockpit is a damn spaghetti. Good you are managing OK with your back injury.

Eric, some of the best sailing footage you have produced. Thank you.

Incredible adventure and congratulations on your achievement, thanks for sharing and good winds!

I'm always looking forward to your next challenge. This was a great adventure! Thanks for sharing . 👍👍👍

Stunning. Thank you for taking us along. I will likely never experience ocean sailing but I feel like I have. Well done

Best sailing adventure on YT. Keep your harness on Erik - we'd like to see you get home please.. awesome videos. Thank you.

Erik, you own all my mad respect. I am in awe

Un sacré marin et un vrai Viking! Sans Harnais, à prendre un ris dans la grand voile et avec les vagues de travers, chapeau! En tout cas superbe vidéo!

My god ! I do not know how you do it Erik. I never skipped a moment on this one nor do I on any of your videos. This was absolutely brilliant story telling and bravery at it's finest.

I hope you aren’t too disappointed by not making Greenland. You still had a grand adventure and explored new far off places which is still a win in my book!

Thanks Erik - I really enjoy your videos and your adventures, really awesome... Thanks for sharing - you're a real inspiration to me, and I am sure to all the rest of your fans as well. Cheers. 👍🙂

I can't find words. Absolutely, absolutely fantastic video! Also very informative since you talk a lot about your planning during the route. Tnx a million

Great to see you guys back, looking forward to the up coming videos.

Your videos truly make me appreciate being on land...

Unbelievable raw uncensored sailing video on KZfaq...this is what real saiing is all about!

This is one of your best videos yet, Erik -- that was such a magnificent sail. Thank you!

Brilliant Erik, thanks for this new fantastic video! Fair winds!

You my friend are a true hardcore sailor, none of those warm waters of the Caribbean, you sail the true ruff waters of the north seas.

Thanks for taking us with you on your adventures.