Whales, Puffins & Sails NS

The sailing boat Haukur offers a unique opportunity to experience the spirit of time past. The boat heads first for Lundey (Puffin Island) one of Iceland’s largest puffin colonies. Then, weather permitting, we cut the engines, up the sails and go off looking for whales the traditional way. An excellent adventure tour that combines whale watching, bird watching and sailing on Iceland’s only schooner.

Haukur was built in Reykjavík in 1973 and was one of two very special boats constructed in the shipyard “John at Eleven”. For many years the boat fished from the Western Fjords of Iceland. It begun its whale-watching career in the summer of 1997. After five productive summers the boat was taken into dry dock in Húsavík and converted into a two mast sailing ship, similar to the fishing schooners which were common on the northern coasts of Iceland in the late 19th century.