About Us

Authors & Publishers

We are Kathrin and Daniel Gerber, full-time cruising sailors with more than twenty-five years of experience under sail.

Much of our sailing life has been spent in northern waters, both offshore and along the exposed coasts of England, Scotland, Ireland and the Faroe Islands. From there, we crossed the North Sea and discovered the long, intricate coastline of Norway—along with the generosity and quiet competence of the people who live and work there.

In 2025, after two seasons sailing in northern Norway, including Svalbard, and a winter spent living aboard our Bavaria Cruiser 46, Polaris Helvetica in arctic Norway, based in Finnsnes close to the island of Senja, an unexpected opportunity arose. When the chance came to take over the publication of the Norwegian Cruising Guide from Phyllis Nickel and John Harries, it felt like a natural continuation of our own journey.

Since moving aboard permanently in 2021, we have also documented our sailing life through a YouTube channel, sharing the realities of high-latitude cruising, life afloat, and the lessons learned along the way.

Norwegian Authors

Hans Jakob Valderhaug and Eli Husum, the Guide’s Norwegian authors, live in Oslo. Both are passionate and highly accomplished skiers and hikers—something that quickly becomes evident from their photographs and from the places they choose to explore.

For more than forty years, Hans Jakob has cruised the Norwegian coast, from the Swedish border north to Svalbard. Since 2002, he and Eli have shared their accumulated local knowledge through the Norwegian Cruising Guide, contributing not only detailed cruising information but also insight into Norway’s culture, landscape and history.

Each season, they visit, document and photograph a remarkable number of harbours and anchorages. Their early cruising was done aboard their Hallberg-Rassy 31 Anna, and since 2013 they have continued this work aboard their Koopmans 39, also named Anna, extending both the range and depth of their coverage.