Well, it's 3 years later and I got AI to help me transcribe and translate it to English :) Seilmagasinet - Hi Sven! You are calling from Porto Santo. You started from Ålesund earlier this summer. Sven Yrvind - I think it was June 27. Seilmagasinet - Right. And so you sailed to... First to the Azores. Tell us a little about that trip. Sven Yrvind - Yes, it was very... The border was blocked between Sweden and Norway, but thanks to the fact that I could see it as work for Seilmagasinet, I got through, I told them that it is important for Seilmagasinet and then let go they passed me and then we went down to Ålesund and then we went out to those tunnels. There are tunnels out there, an airfield, it goes out to... God's Island (Godøy) it's called. And the weather was very nice that day. It was just calm, but eventually a little wind came and then a little more wind came and then... you know outside Ålesund, outside Bergen. There are oil rigs and stuff like this. But outside Bergen, or outside Ålesund, it's deep water, you know, and there's not much traffic either. And then I sail north of the Faroe Islands and down the channel between the Faroe Islands and Iceland. But outside the north of the Faroe Islands, it was completely windless for several days. - And after a while, a helicopter came out and thought it was strange that there was a Swede out there without moving. But then I put my thumbs up and he went away again. And then it was very cold there and very foggy and dark, it was cloudy. But sometimes there's severe weather, you know, and sometimes it was less severe, but it was very cold all the time, so I had to have two sleeping bags and a blanket. And then I had thermal pants and thermal pants on the outside. And there was a lot of condensation back there and in front of the hatches. But I sailed so slowly and so slowly, sailing east of the Hebrides and west of the Faroe Islands. So west of Ireland, was a good way out on Biscay, you know, so it would blow in there. And it was cloudy and bad all the time. But I had fantastic solar cells, so they gave me power for everything. And then I had 10,000 books on such an iPad so I could read. And then I was drawing on the next boat as well. - Eventually I arrived, after 78 days, I was able to make landfall over there in the Azores, at Faial. Seilmagasinet - How did you manage with water and provisions during that time, 78 days? Sven Yrvind - Yes, you know, I had... It was 78 days, and I had 130 liters of water with me. And I used 65 liters. So I could have been out for another 78 days. And the same with the food. There I think I used a quarter or a fifth. As for the food, I may have been out for over a year. Seilmagasinet - But you ate a lot of porridge then? Sven Yrvind - Yes, it was some kind of porridge. There was oats and then there was almond flour and then there was powdered milk and then there was water and such. Every day I ate a can of sardines too. Seilmagasinet - Yes, but you didn't fish yourself? Sven Yrvind - No, I'm not much into fishing, but I mostly lie down and read books and draw and write and stuff like that. And so it is. So I don't. Seilmagasinet - But now you say you want to build a new boat. What is wrong with the boat you have then? Did it not work on this trip? Sven Yrvind - It's like, you know, Volvo built a car in 1950, but then they designed a new car, and then they built a new car in 1970 that was better, and then in 2000 they built an even newer car. So it's not like there's anything wrong with this boat. But there was something wrong too, but above all, it's development. It moves forward and you come up with new ideas and develop them. Just like the cars and TV and computers and the whole world is doing, coming up with new products every year. Seilmagasinet - How was it to sail with this boat on a tack, i.e. against the wind? Sven Yrvind - No, that wasn't so good. I sat and ate in the back and then I looked at the tiller and it was lying to the lee. That was curious. Yes, but now I have moved the mast back about one and a half or 1.7 meters, and you can see that on my website. Seilmagasinet - You have two masts. Sven Yrvind - The boat has two masts, but there are three holes for the masts. I moved it backwards and now it looks fine. Now it should cruise better. Seilmagasinet - But then you were there in the Azores for a while, on Horta, weren't you? But then you decided to sail on and came to the Canary Islands. Or to Madeira? Sven Yrvind - Madeira, yes. Seilmagasinet - And then there was quite a lot of wind? Sven Yrvind - Yes, right before I arrived, 2-3 days before, it was very bad weather. That was it. But it came from behind, so I made very good speed and was averaging 5.3 knots for many hours. And there was only two square meters of sail up then. Seilmagasinet - Were you afraid? Were you afraid that the boat would tip over a few times in the waves? Sven Yrvind - It doesn't do anything to this little boat. The masts cannot break and everything is fixed. And I have seat belts on me. And we've tested it, so it's self-righting, so it doesn't do much. Seilmagasinet - But did you capsize? Sven Yrvind - No, that didn't happen. But up there, it was such high latitude, 62 degrees north, beyond that. Northwest of the Faroe Islands. There came very strong waves and threw the boat and it hit the side of it so that it got thrown, maybe a couple of meters and more. But it stayed on its keel the whole time. But the waves broke over the whole boat, it breaks over. But the hatches were closed and tied down so no water gets in. And the ventilation system is such that the opening to the roof is down there on the other side. Even if the boat is upside down, no water gets in. It doesn't. Seilmagasinet - But were you ever afraid? Sven Yrvind - No... no, no. This boat is safe. After all, I built it myself, and made everything strong. Seilmagasinet - You say that the boat is like a woman, capricious and with many different characteristics. Sven Yrvind - Yes, haha, well, it's like that, in some ways... If you get hold of a woman, it's the case that some things are good, some things are bad. It's always a compromise you have to make. It is a balance between the good and the bad. And that's how it is in life, too. So if you use the money to buy ice cream, you might not be able to buy coffee. You know how it is. You get to choose. Seilmagasinet - But originally your idea was to sail to New Zealand, wasn't it? Sven Yrvind - Yes, it was. Seilmagasinet - But that won't be relevant now? Sven Yrvind - No, it didn't work. It was too ambitious, you know. Yes, I'm always certain when I'm sitting at home, you're always brave in the beginning. You lie at home and think about what to do. That's how you think. Now you have to perform some great heroic deeds. But then when you get out into reality... The sea is the great judge, you could say. It is the one that brings you back to reality when you get into the water. And then it is reality and then you realize that it is as it is. A Swedish poet said that we can aim for the stars and maybe reach the treetops. Seilmagasinet - But when you're at sea... You say you get to read a lot, but you get plenty of time to think about life and many things. Sven Yrvind - Yes, yes. Sure, you think about life and all sorts of things. There are so many mysteries that we haven't figured out yet that you can think about. And then, I'm old, I'm over 80 years old. You think about what you have been a part of, and you think back to how it was in the past. People you've known and... I've been around many parts of the world and met a lot of different people and... I have this iPad, you know, I have 10,000 books on there. And then I have lots of notebooks that you can draw and sketch on the next boat. And then you think about it and then after a while you realize that maybe it wasn't so good, but then you make a small change and then you realize... There is a development all the time. So I'm very happy to be out at sea. I sail, I think and more.
Continuing… Seilmagasinet - Do you enjoy your own company? Sven Yrvind - Yes, actually it's the case that I'm quite happy with myself and my company. So it is. Seilmagasinet - You don't miss the news about COVID in Sweden or the presidential election in the USA or something? Sven Yrvind - No. But now you have that chat too, you can receive SMS. I have a couple of friends in Sweden who send messages about how the weather is going to be a bit rough. "Now there is severe weather" and so on, and then they say "yes, but now there is a problem with so and so" and so on. But it's very rare that you get news, it's only 160 characters you can get. Seilmagasinet - But now you're in Porto Santo on Madeira and you're wondering if you should leave the boat and travel back to Sweden? Sven Yrvind - Yes, now I have decided. I have now bought a plane ticket. On November 26, the flight and I will go to Stockholm if they haven't canceled because of COVID. They can also cancel planes, but as it looks now, I will fly to Arlanda outside Stockholm, and my friend will pick me up with a car and drive me to my apartment in Västervik, and then I won't have to be with a lot of people and take buses and trains and stuff like that. I have to be afraid of COVID, because Sweden has bad politics. If you are over 70, they give them morphine instead of oxygen, so that people die like flies in Sweden. It is 6000 who have died. Seilmagasinet - But when you get home to Västervik, are you going to build a new boat? Sven Yrvind - Yes, I will start with a model in scale 1:10 and then scale 1:5 and then I will make one in wood which will be, yes, it will be a bit bigger actually. Or, it will be full scale so I can sail with it and sleep, and then when it works and I have made the necessary changes, I will build a new composite one that will be the finished model. Seilmagasinet - But that's approaching a conventional boat, because it will be one of 8 meters length or so? (Correction: 5.8 meters) Sven Yrvind - Yes, although there is a centerboard on it and there are balanced sails and such. But it's very narrow so it's seven times the width so you know. A regular boat, it's maybe three times the width. So a boat that is two meters wide is six meters long. But this one is 120 wide and 840 long, so there are other shapes on it. And there is a lot of it, with the centerboard, with other arrangements and, with the sails and that. Seilmagasinet - So in theory, you can take one more sailor with you on that boat? Sven Yrvind - Yes, that's right, maybe I should have one. Now I am over 80 years old, but I thought maybe I would meet a lady or a woman who wants to go somewhere. So there should be room for one. Seilmagasinet - A skilled, adventurous woman. There are certainly many of them in Sweden. Sven Yrvind - Yes, maybe even in Norway. Seilmagasinet - Yes, that could be. We will post a personal advertisement for you in Seilmagasinet, you might get a lot of inquiries. Sven Yrvind - Yes, yes. Thank you. Seilmagasinet - But you are satisfied with the trip? You have been out for 78 + 22 days, 101 days you have sailed. And has it been 101 happy days for you? Sven Yrvind - Yes, it has. And then when spring comes in April/May, then I'll fly back here. And so I continue sailing with this boat during the summer. Seilmagasinet - Where are you going to sail then? Sven Yrvind - I'm not going to sail to anywhere, I'm just going to be out at sea, you know, but I'm going home from Madeira and then I'm going south-west and going away towards the Sargasso Sea. And then I throw out an anchor there and lie there and bathe and think and read books. There is a lot of high pressure there. And then when the measurements start to run out, I might sail up to the Azores. Then maybe I'll put the boat in the Azores and redo it the following year and go home in the winter and build. Or, well, I'll see. Seilmagasinet - When will the new boat be ready then? Sven Yrvind - No, there is no deadline, this will take time. It will take time, it will. Seilmagasinet - But you are in good health so you're not short on time? You can count on being able to continue doing this for many years to come? Sven Yrvind - Yes, many people say that now you are older, you must get a bigger boat. You may have heard that you should have a foot of boat for every year. So if you are eight years old you should have an 8' boat, and if you are 20 years old you should have a 20 footer. If you are 60 years old you can have a 60-foot boat. But I think, on the contrary, that you should have a small boat, because then you keep your body in shape and then you are flexible and you get to crawl around and you get to strain your muscles and stuff. Comfort is dangerous. The body adapts to comfort, the more comfortable the body is the weaker it becomes. Seilmagasinet - But what about when you sit in that boat for 78 days, then you don't get to move much. What's it like to walk when you get to land? Sven Yrvind - It is not possible to walk when you come ashore. Then you get to build up the muscles again. But you know, the body is adaptable. Now it has been almost three weeks and now I walk several kilometers every day. A body part that you don't use wastes away, and when you use it, it builds up again. That's how nature works. The next boat will have a deck on it, so I should be able to walk around a bit and then it will be better. Seilmagasinet - Yes, that will be a little different, it will be a real boat. This one is a small egg. Sven Yrvind - Yes, it will. Seilmagasinet - It's inspiring to talk to people like you who doesn't dependend on the comfort we have here. We live in a large city so there are no limits to how much comfort you can have. But you are totally free from that. For you, the thinking and the freedom of the sea means everything. Sven Yrvind - Yes! You know, it makes you happy. You know, the people, they get bored with all that comfort. But you know, the animals that live in nature, they are never bored. They think everything is nice and good. And a little bird can sit on a branch without having to watch TV or any entertainment, or eat any other food. You know, the cows, they only chew grass every day and the wolves only eat meat and they're perfectly happy with that, the animals. It's only us humans who who are not content, in civilization. The more civilization you get, the more discontent you become. Seilmagasinet - Yes, one can imagine that. If you manage to break away and enjoy life alone at sea and not be afraid of what happens, it is of course very nice. What you do is an inspiration to us all, to think a bit differently. Sven Yrvind - That's nice to hear. And you know this is good for the world too. You shouldn't consume so much stuff, save on resources, so it's good that way too. That you don't pollute nature. There is no engine in the boat and the sails are only four square meters, and one oar. Seilmagasinet - Very good. Well have a nice trip back to Sweden, and I hope you stay away from COVID and start building your next boat. We will follow that with great interest. Thanks for the conversation. Sven Yrvind - And say hello to all the readers! Seilmagasinet - Will do, thank you very much! Sven Yrvind - Thank you yourself! So long!
Seilmagasinet - Do you enjoy your own company? Sven Yrvind - Yes, actually it's the case that I'm quite happy with myself and my company. So it is. Seilmagasinet - You don't miss the news about COVID in Sweden or the presidential election in the USA or something? Sven Yrvind - No. But now you have that chat too, you can receive SMS. I have a couple of friends in Sweden who send messages about how the weather is going to be a bit rough. "Now there is severe weather" and so on, and then they say "yes, but now there is a problem with so and so" and so on. But it's very rare that you get news, it's only 160 characters you can get. Seilmagasinet - But now you're in Porto Santo on Madeira and you're wondering if you should leave the boat and travel back to Sweden? Sven Yrvind - Yes, now I have decided. I have now bought a plane ticket. On November 26, the flight and I will go to Stockholm if they haven't canceled because of COVID. They can also cancel planes, but as it looks now, I will fly to Arlanda outside Stockholm, and my friend will pick me up with a car and drive me to my apartment in Västervik, and then I won't have to be with a lot of people and take buses and trains and stuff like that. I have to be afraid of COVID, because Sweden has bad politics. If you are over 70, they give them morphine instead of oxygen, so that people die like flies in Sweden. It is 6000 who have died. Seilmagasinet - But when you get home to Västervik, are you going to build a new boat? Sven Yrvind - Yes, I will start with a model in scale 1:10 and then scale 1:5 and then I will make one in wood which will be, yes, it will be a bit bigger actually. Or, it will be full scale so I can sail with it and sleep, and then when it works and I have made the necessary changes, I will build a new composite one that will be the finished model. Seilmagasinet - But that's approaching a conventional boat, because it will be one of 8 meters length or so? (Correction: 5.8 meters) Sven Yrvind - Yes, although there is a centerboard on it and there are balanced sails and such. But it's very narrow so it's seven times the width so you know. A regular boat, it's maybe three times the width. So a boat that is two meters wide is six meters long. But this one is 120 wide and 840 long, so there are other shapes on it. And there is a lot of it, with the centerboard, with other arrangements and, with the sails and that. Seilmagasinet - So in theory, you can take one more sailor with you on that boat? Sven Yrvind - Yes, that's right, maybe I should have one. Now I am over 80 years old, but I thought maybe I would meet a lady or a woman who wants to go somewhere. So there should be room for one. Seilmagasinet - A skilled, adventurous woman. There are certainly many of them in Sweden. Sven Yrvind - Yes, maybe even in Norway. Seilmagasinet - Yes, that could be. We will post a personal advertisement for you in Seilmagasinet, you might get a lot of inquiries. Sven Yrvind - Yes, yes. Thank you. Seilmagasinet - But you are satisfied with the trip? You have been out for 78 + 22 days, 101 days you have sailed. And has it been 101 happy days for you? Sven Yrvind - Yes, it has. And then when spring comes in April/May, then I'll fly back here. And so I continue sailing with this boat during the summer. Seilmagasinet - Where are you going to sail then? Sven Yrvind - I'm not going to sail to anywhere, I'm just going to be out at sea, you know, but I'm going home from Madeira and then I'm going south-west and going away towards the Sargasso Sea. And then I throw out an anchor there and lie there and bathe and think and read books. There is a lot of high pressure there. And then when the measurements start to run out, I might sail up to the Azores. Then maybe I'll put the boat in the Azores and redo it the following year and go home in the winter and build. Or, well, I'll see. Seilmagasinet - When will the new boat be ready then? Sven Yrvind - No, there is no deadline, this will take time. It will take time, it will. Seilmagasinet - But you are in good health so you're not short on time? You can count on being able to continue doing this for many years to come? Sven Yrvind - Yes, many people say that now you are older, you must get a bigger boat. You may have heard that you should have a foot of boat for every year. So if you are eight years old you should have an 8' boat, and if you are 20 years old you should have a 20 footer. If you are 60 years old you can have a 60-foot boat. But I think, on the contrary, that you should have a small boat, because then you keep your body in shape and then you are flexible and you get to crawl around and you get to strain your muscles and stuff. Comfort is dangerous. The body adapts to comfort, the more comfortable the body is the weaker it becomes. Seilmagasinet - But what about when you sit in that boat for 78 days, then you don't get to move much. What's it like to walk when you get to land? Sven Yrvind - It is not possible to walk when you come ashore. Then you get to build up the muscles again. But you know, the body is adaptable. Now it has been almost three weeks and now I walk several kilometers every day. A body part that you don't use wastes away, and when you use it, it builds up again. That's how nature works. The next boat will have a deck on it, so I should be able to walk around a bit and then it will be better. Seilmagasinet - Yes, that will be a little different, it will be a real boat. This one is a small egg. Sven Yrvind - Yes, it will. Seilmagasinet - It's inspiring to talk to people like you who doesn't dependend on the comfort we have here. We live in a large city so there are no limits to how much comfort you can have. But you are totally free from that. For you, the thinking and the freedom of the sea means everything. Sven Yrvind - Yes! You know, it makes you happy. You know, the people, they get bored with all that comfort. But you know, the animals that live in nature, they are never bored. They think everything is nice and good. And a little bird can sit on a branch without having to watch TV or any entertainment, or eat any other food. You know, the cows, they only chew grass every day and the wolves only eat meat and they're perfectly happy with that, the animals. It's only us humans who who are not content, in civilization. The more civilization you get, the more discontent you become. Seilmagasinet - Yes, one can imagine that. If you manage to break away and enjoy life alone at sea and not be afraid of what happens, it is of course very nice. What you do is an inspiration to us all, to think a bit differently. Sven Yrvind - That's nice to hear. And you know this is good for the world too. You shouldn't consume so much stuff, save on resources, so it's good that way too. That you don't pollute nature. There is no engine in the boat and the sails are only four square meters, and one oar. Seilmagasinet - Very good. Well have a nice trip back to Sweden, and I hope you stay away from COVID and start building your next boat. We will follow that with great interest. Thanks for the conversation. Sven Yrvind - And say hello to all the readers! Seilmagasinet - Will do, thank you very much! Sven Yrvind - Thank you yourself! So long!
Imponerende seilas i en slik liten båt. Kan du si noe om hvilke soverutiner du følger? Hvor lenge kan du sove i et strekk uten å våkne opp? Går ut fra at du har AIS ombord innstilt på alarm?
One crazy old man, who once was a crazy young man. He survived more by luck than sound compentence. His little craft is no more than a life boat, a good life boat, best by test. I hope he goes on saling or whatever you wantvto call what he is doing.
Luck or a lack of misfortune, crazy or genious, call it what you will. Either case, he has sailed for thousands of miles and is still planning to set sail for New Zealand to buy ice cream at the age of 85. At least his compentence in boat design and boat building is high, judging from his latest creations. Very original, but fairly advanced.
Please translate this into english for your followers that don't speak swedish. snälla översätt till engelska för dina följare som inte talar svenska. google translate
Hej Båten är 5,8 meter lång
Inte 8 meter
Vänligen Yrvind
Fint intervju! Litt av en kar han Yrvind. Leste boka hvor han seilte en Albin Vega sammen med en unggutt over Atlanteren. Inspirerende!
Would love to see closed captions so I can read in English. Enjoy following you.
Yes please.
What he said. snälla du (swede please)
Well, it's 3 years later and I got AI to help me transcribe and translate it to English :)
Seilmagasinet
- Hi Sven! You are calling from Porto Santo. You started from Ålesund earlier this summer.
Sven Yrvind
- I think it was June 27.
Seilmagasinet
- Right. And so you sailed to... First to the Azores. Tell us a little about that trip.
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, it was very... The border was blocked between Sweden and Norway, but thanks to the fact that I could see it as work for Seilmagasinet, I got through, I told them that it is important for Seilmagasinet and then let go they passed me and then we went down to Ålesund and then we went out to those tunnels. There are tunnels out there, an airfield, it goes out to... God's Island (Godøy) it's called. And the weather was very nice that day. It was just calm, but eventually a little wind came and then a little more wind came and then... you know outside Ålesund, outside Bergen. There are oil rigs and stuff like this. But outside Bergen, or outside Ålesund, it's deep water, you know, and there's not much traffic either. And then I sail north of the Faroe Islands and down the channel between the Faroe Islands and Iceland. But outside the north of the Faroe Islands, it was completely windless for several days.
- And after a while, a helicopter came out and thought it was strange that there was a Swede out there without moving. But then I put my thumbs up and he went away again. And then it was very cold there and very foggy and dark, it was cloudy. But sometimes there's severe weather, you know, and sometimes it was less severe, but it was very cold all the time, so I had to have two sleeping bags and a blanket. And then I had thermal pants and thermal pants on the outside. And there was a lot of condensation back there and in front of the hatches. But I sailed so slowly and so slowly, sailing east of the Hebrides and west of the Faroe Islands. So west of Ireland, was a good way out on Biscay, you know, so it would blow in there. And it was cloudy and bad all the time. But I had fantastic solar cells, so they gave me power for everything. And then I had 10,000 books on such an iPad so I could read. And then I was drawing on the next boat as well.
- Eventually I arrived, after 78 days, I was able to make landfall over there in the Azores, at Faial.
Seilmagasinet
- How did you manage with water and provisions during that time, 78 days?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, you know, I had... It was 78 days, and I had 130 liters of water with me. And I used 65 liters. So I could have been out for another 78 days. And the same with the food. There I think I used a quarter or a fifth. As for the food, I may have been out for over a year.
Seilmagasinet
- But you ate a lot of porridge then?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, it was some kind of porridge. There was oats and then there was almond flour and then there was powdered milk and then there was water and such. Every day I ate a can of sardines too.
Seilmagasinet
- Yes, but you didn't fish yourself?
Sven Yrvind
- No, I'm not much into fishing, but I mostly lie down and read books and draw and write and stuff like that. And so it is. So I don't.
Seilmagasinet
- But now you say you want to build a new boat. What is wrong with the boat you have then? Did it not work on this trip?
Sven Yrvind
- It's like, you know, Volvo built a car in 1950, but then they designed a new car, and then they built a new car in 1970 that was better, and then in 2000 they built an even newer car. So it's not like there's anything wrong with this boat. But there was something wrong too, but above all, it's development. It moves forward and you come up with new ideas and develop them. Just like the cars and TV and computers and the whole world is doing, coming up with new products every year.
Seilmagasinet
- How was it to sail with this boat on a tack, i.e. against the wind?
Sven Yrvind
- No, that wasn't so good. I sat and ate in the back and then I looked at the tiller and it was lying to the lee. That was curious. Yes, but now I have moved the mast back about one and a half or 1.7 meters, and you can see that on my website.
Seilmagasinet
- You have two masts.
Sven Yrvind
- The boat has two masts, but there are three holes for the masts. I moved it backwards and now it looks fine. Now it should cruise better.
Seilmagasinet
- But then you were there in the Azores for a while, on Horta, weren't you? But then you decided to sail on and came to the Canary Islands. Or to Madeira?
Sven Yrvind
- Madeira, yes.
Seilmagasinet
- And then there was quite a lot of wind?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, right before I arrived, 2-3 days before, it was very bad weather. That was it. But it came from behind, so I made very good speed and was averaging 5.3 knots for many hours. And there was only two square meters of sail up then.
Seilmagasinet
- Were you afraid? Were you afraid that the boat would tip over a few times in the waves?
Sven Yrvind
- It doesn't do anything to this little boat. The masts cannot break and everything is fixed. And I have seat belts on me. And we've tested it, so it's self-righting, so it doesn't do much.
Seilmagasinet
- But did you capsize?
Sven Yrvind
- No, that didn't happen. But up there, it was such high latitude, 62 degrees north, beyond that. Northwest of the Faroe Islands. There came very strong waves and threw the boat and it hit the side of it so that it got thrown, maybe a couple of meters and more. But it stayed on its keel the whole time. But the waves broke over the whole boat, it breaks over. But the hatches were closed and tied down so no water gets in. And the ventilation system is such that the opening to the roof is down there on the other side. Even if the boat is upside down, no water gets in. It doesn't.
Seilmagasinet
- But were you ever afraid?
Sven Yrvind
- No... no, no. This boat is safe. After all, I built it myself, and made everything strong.
Seilmagasinet
- You say that the boat is like a woman, capricious and with many different characteristics.
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, haha, well, it's like that, in some ways... If you get hold of a woman, it's the case that some things are good, some things are bad. It's always a compromise you have to make. It is a balance between the good and the bad. And that's how it is in life, too. So if you use the money to buy ice cream, you might not be able to buy coffee. You know how it is. You get to choose.
Seilmagasinet
- But originally your idea was to sail to New Zealand, wasn't it?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, it was.
Seilmagasinet
- But that won't be relevant now?
Sven Yrvind
- No, it didn't work. It was too ambitious, you know. Yes, I'm always certain when I'm sitting at home, you're always brave in the beginning. You lie at home and think about what to do. That's how you think. Now you have to perform some great heroic deeds. But then when you get out into reality... The sea is the great judge, you could say. It is the one that brings you back to reality when you get into the water. And then it is reality and then you realize that it is as it is. A Swedish poet said that we can aim for the stars and maybe reach the treetops.
Seilmagasinet
- But when you're at sea... You say you get to read a lot, but you get plenty of time to think about life and many things.
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, yes. Sure, you think about life and all sorts of things. There are so many mysteries that we haven't figured out yet that you can think about. And then, I'm old, I'm over 80 years old. You think about what you have been a part of, and you think back to how it was in the past. People you've known and... I've been around many parts of the world and met a lot of different people and... I have this iPad, you know, I have 10,000 books on there. And then I have lots of notebooks that you can draw and sketch on the next boat. And then you think about it and then after a while you realize that maybe it wasn't so good, but then you make a small change and then you realize... There is a development all the time. So I'm very happy to be out at sea. I sail, I think and more.
Continuing…
Seilmagasinet
- Do you enjoy your own company?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, actually it's the case that I'm quite happy with myself and my company. So it is.
Seilmagasinet
- You don't miss the news about COVID in Sweden or the presidential election in the USA or something?
Sven Yrvind
- No. But now you have that chat too, you can receive SMS. I have a couple of friends in Sweden who send messages about how the weather is going to be a bit rough. "Now there is severe weather" and so on, and then they say "yes, but now there is a problem with so and so" and so on. But it's very rare that you get news, it's only 160 characters you can get.
Seilmagasinet
- But now you're in Porto Santo on Madeira and you're wondering if you should leave the boat and travel back to Sweden?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, now I have decided. I have now bought a plane ticket. On November 26, the flight and I will go to Stockholm if they haven't canceled because of COVID. They can also cancel planes, but as it looks now, I will fly to Arlanda outside Stockholm, and my friend will pick me up with a car and drive me to my apartment in Västervik, and then I won't have to be with a lot of people and take buses and trains and stuff like that. I have to be afraid of COVID, because Sweden has bad politics. If you are over 70, they give them morphine instead of oxygen, so that people die like flies in Sweden. It is 6000 who have died.
Seilmagasinet
- But when you get home to Västervik, are you going to build a new boat?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, I will start with a model in scale 1:10 and then scale 1:5 and then I will make one in wood which will be, yes, it will be a bit bigger actually. Or, it will be full scale so I can sail with it and sleep, and then when it works and I have made the necessary changes, I will build a new composite one that will be the finished model.
Seilmagasinet
- But that's approaching a conventional boat, because it will be one of 8 meters length or so? (Correction: 5.8 meters)
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, although there is a centerboard on it and there are balanced sails and such. But it's very narrow so it's seven times the width so you know. A regular boat, it's maybe three times the width. So a boat that is two meters wide is six meters long. But this one is 120 wide and 840 long, so there are other shapes on it. And there is a lot of it, with the centerboard, with other arrangements and, with the sails and that.
Seilmagasinet
- So in theory, you can take one more sailor with you on that boat?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, that's right, maybe I should have one. Now I am over 80 years old, but I thought maybe I would meet a lady or a woman who wants to go somewhere. So there should be room for one.
Seilmagasinet
- A skilled, adventurous woman. There are certainly many of them in Sweden.
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, maybe even in Norway.
Seilmagasinet
- Yes, that could be. We will post a personal advertisement for you in Seilmagasinet, you might get a lot of inquiries.
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, yes. Thank you.
Seilmagasinet
- But you are satisfied with the trip? You have been out for 78 + 22 days, 101 days you have sailed. And has it been 101 happy days for you?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, it has. And then when spring comes in April/May, then I'll fly back here. And so I continue sailing with this boat during the summer.
Seilmagasinet
- Where are you going to sail then?
Sven Yrvind
- I'm not going to sail to anywhere, I'm just going to be out at sea, you know, but I'm going home from Madeira and then I'm going south-west and going away towards the Sargasso Sea. And then I throw out an anchor there and lie there and bathe and think and read books. There is a lot of high pressure there. And then when the measurements start to run out, I might sail up to the Azores. Then maybe I'll put the boat in the Azores and redo it the following year and go home in the winter and build. Or, well, I'll see.
Seilmagasinet
- When will the new boat be ready then?
Sven Yrvind
- No, there is no deadline, this will take time. It will take time, it will.
Seilmagasinet
- But you are in good health so you're not short on time? You can count on being able to continue doing this for many years to come?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, many people say that now you are older, you must get a bigger boat. You may have heard that you should have a foot of boat for every year. So if you are eight years old you should have an 8' boat, and if you are 20 years old you should have a 20 footer. If you are 60 years old you can have a 60-foot boat. But I think, on the contrary, that you should have a small boat, because then you keep your body in shape and then you are flexible and you get to crawl around and you get to strain your muscles and stuff. Comfort is dangerous. The body adapts to comfort, the more comfortable the body is the weaker it becomes.
Seilmagasinet
- But what about when you sit in that boat for 78 days, then you don't get to move much. What's it like to walk when you get to land?
Sven Yrvind
- It is not possible to walk when you come ashore. Then you get to build up the muscles again. But you know, the body is adaptable. Now it has been almost three weeks and now I walk several kilometers every day. A body part that you don't use wastes away, and when you use it, it builds up again. That's how nature works. The next boat will have a deck on it, so I should be able to walk around a bit and then it will be better.
Seilmagasinet
- Yes, that will be a little different, it will be a real boat. This one is a small egg.
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, it will.
Seilmagasinet
- It's inspiring to talk to people like you who doesn't dependend on the comfort we have here. We live in a large city so there are no limits to how much comfort you can have. But you are totally free from that. For you, the thinking and the freedom of the sea means everything.
Sven Yrvind
- Yes! You know, it makes you happy. You know, the people, they get bored with all that comfort. But you know, the animals that live in nature, they are never bored. They think everything is nice and good. And a little bird can sit on a branch without having to watch TV or any entertainment, or eat any other food. You know, the cows, they only chew grass every day and the wolves only eat meat and they're perfectly happy with that, the animals. It's only us humans who who are not content, in civilization. The more civilization you get, the more discontent you become.
Seilmagasinet
- Yes, one can imagine that. If you manage to break away and enjoy life alone at sea and not be afraid of what happens, it is of course very nice. What you do is an inspiration to us all, to think a bit differently.
Sven Yrvind
- That's nice to hear. And you know this is good for the world too. You shouldn't consume so much stuff, save on resources, so it's good that way too. That you don't pollute nature. There is no engine in the boat and the sails are only four square meters, and one oar.
Seilmagasinet
- Very good. Well have a nice trip back to Sweden, and I hope you stay away from COVID and start building your next boat. We will follow that with great interest. Thanks for the conversation.
Sven Yrvind
- And say hello to all the readers!
Seilmagasinet
- Will do, thank you very much!
Sven Yrvind
- Thank you yourself! So long!
Seilmagasinet
- Do you enjoy your own company?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, actually it's the case that I'm quite happy with myself and my company. So it is.
Seilmagasinet
- You don't miss the news about COVID in Sweden or the presidential election in the USA or something?
Sven Yrvind
- No. But now you have that chat too, you can receive SMS. I have a couple of friends in Sweden who send messages about how the weather is going to be a bit rough. "Now there is severe weather" and so on, and then they say "yes, but now there is a problem with so and so" and so on. But it's very rare that you get news, it's only 160 characters you can get.
Seilmagasinet
- But now you're in Porto Santo on Madeira and you're wondering if you should leave the boat and travel back to Sweden?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, now I have decided. I have now bought a plane ticket. On November 26, the flight and I will go to Stockholm if they haven't canceled because of COVID. They can also cancel planes, but as it looks now, I will fly to Arlanda outside Stockholm, and my friend will pick me up with a car and drive me to my apartment in Västervik, and then I won't have to be with a lot of people and take buses and trains and stuff like that. I have to be afraid of COVID, because Sweden has bad politics. If you are over 70, they give them morphine instead of oxygen, so that people die like flies in Sweden. It is 6000 who have died.
Seilmagasinet
- But when you get home to Västervik, are you going to build a new boat?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, I will start with a model in scale 1:10 and then scale 1:5 and then I will make one in wood which will be, yes, it will be a bit bigger actually. Or, it will be full scale so I can sail with it and sleep, and then when it works and I have made the necessary changes, I will build a new composite one that will be the finished model.
Seilmagasinet
- But that's approaching a conventional boat, because it will be one of 8 meters length or so? (Correction: 5.8 meters)
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, although there is a centerboard on it and there are balanced sails and such. But it's very narrow so it's seven times the width so you know. A regular boat, it's maybe three times the width. So a boat that is two meters wide is six meters long. But this one is 120 wide and 840 long, so there are other shapes on it. And there is a lot of it, with the centerboard, with other arrangements and, with the sails and that.
Seilmagasinet
- So in theory, you can take one more sailor with you on that boat?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, that's right, maybe I should have one. Now I am over 80 years old, but I thought maybe I would meet a lady or a woman who wants to go somewhere. So there should be room for one.
Seilmagasinet
- A skilled, adventurous woman. There are certainly many of them in Sweden.
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, maybe even in Norway.
Seilmagasinet
- Yes, that could be. We will post a personal advertisement for you in Seilmagasinet, you might get a lot of inquiries.
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, yes. Thank you.
Seilmagasinet
- But you are satisfied with the trip? You have been out for 78 + 22 days, 101 days you have sailed. And has it been 101 happy days for you?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, it has. And then when spring comes in April/May, then I'll fly back here. And so I continue sailing with this boat during the summer.
Seilmagasinet
- Where are you going to sail then?
Sven Yrvind
- I'm not going to sail to anywhere, I'm just going to be out at sea, you know, but I'm going home from Madeira and then I'm going south-west and going away towards the Sargasso Sea. And then I throw out an anchor there and lie there and bathe and think and read books. There is a lot of high pressure there. And then when the measurements start to run out, I might sail up to the Azores. Then maybe I'll put the boat in the Azores and redo it the following year and go home in the winter and build. Or, well, I'll see.
Seilmagasinet
- When will the new boat be ready then?
Sven Yrvind
- No, there is no deadline, this will take time. It will take time, it will.
Seilmagasinet
- But you are in good health so you're not short on time? You can count on being able to continue doing this for many years to come?
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, many people say that now you are older, you must get a bigger boat. You may have heard that you should have a foot of boat for every year. So if you are eight years old you should have an 8' boat, and if you are 20 years old you should have a 20 footer. If you are 60 years old you can have a 60-foot boat. But I think, on the contrary, that you should have a small boat, because then you keep your body in shape and then you are flexible and you get to crawl around and you get to strain your muscles and stuff. Comfort is dangerous. The body adapts to comfort, the more comfortable the body is the weaker it becomes.
Seilmagasinet
- But what about when you sit in that boat for 78 days, then you don't get to move much. What's it like to walk when you get to land?
Sven Yrvind
- It is not possible to walk when you come ashore. Then you get to build up the muscles again. But you know, the body is adaptable. Now it has been almost three weeks and now I walk several kilometers every day. A body part that you don't use wastes away, and when you use it, it builds up again. That's how nature works. The next boat will have a deck on it, so I should be able to walk around a bit and then it will be better.
Seilmagasinet
- Yes, that will be a little different, it will be a real boat. This one is a small egg.
Sven Yrvind
- Yes, it will.
Seilmagasinet
- It's inspiring to talk to people like you who doesn't dependend on the comfort we have here. We live in a large city so there are no limits to how much comfort you can have. But you are totally free from that. For you, the thinking and the freedom of the sea means everything.
Sven Yrvind
- Yes! You know, it makes you happy. You know, the people, they get bored with all that comfort. But you know, the animals that live in nature, they are never bored. They think everything is nice and good. And a little bird can sit on a branch without having to watch TV or any entertainment, or eat any other food. You know, the cows, they only chew grass every day and the wolves only eat meat and they're perfectly happy with that, the animals. It's only us humans who who are not content, in civilization. The more civilization you get, the more discontent you become.
Seilmagasinet
- Yes, one can imagine that. If you manage to break away and enjoy life alone at sea and not be afraid of what happens, it is of course very nice. What you do is an inspiration to us all, to think a bit differently.
Sven Yrvind
- That's nice to hear. And you know this is good for the world too. You shouldn't consume so much stuff, save on resources, so it's good that way too. That you don't pollute nature. There is no engine in the boat and the sails are only four square meters, and one oar.
Seilmagasinet
- Very good. Well have a nice trip back to Sweden, and I hope you stay away from COVID and start building your next boat. We will follow that with great interest. Thanks for the conversation.
Sven Yrvind
- And say hello to all the readers!
Seilmagasinet
- Will do, thank you very much!
Sven Yrvind
- Thank you yourself! So long!
Imponerende seilas i en slik liten båt. Kan du si noe om hvilke soverutiner du følger? Hvor lenge kan du sove i et strekk uten å våkne opp? Går ut fra at du har AIS ombord innstilt på alarm?
I would have loved to have understood the dialogue. English subtitles were not possible, unfortunately.
Hey. I've posted a translation in another comment on this video, if you're interested.
Bertil Enstöring!!!
One crazy old man, who once was a crazy young man. He survived more by luck than sound compentence. His little craft is no more than a life boat, a good life boat, best by test. I hope he goes on saling or whatever you wantvto call what he is doing.
Aŕe you sure? Luck is not always around...
Yes, I know first hand.
Luck or a lack of misfortune, crazy or genious, call it what you will. Either case, he has sailed for thousands of miles and is still planning to set sail for New Zealand to buy ice cream at the age of 85. At least his compentence in boat design and boat building is high, judging from his latest creations. Very original, but fairly advanced.
🇹🇷🇺🇸👍
Please translate this into english for your followers that don't speak swedish.
snälla översätt till engelska för dina följare som inte talar svenska.
google translate
Hey. I've posted a translation in another comment on this video, if you're interested.