SAILING THE SEVEN SEAS 



03. 



Photograph by L,. Boulanger 



CODFISH-DRYING RACKS AT HAMMERFEST, NORWAY 



There is no sunset in Hammerfest from May 13 to July 29. This is, therefore, the busiest 

 season of the year, when fishing craft set out for fisheries as far away as Spitsbergen and the 

 Kara Sea beyond Novaya Zemlya. The city's chief export trade is in cod-liver oil, salted fish, 

 reindeer and fox skins, and eiderdown. 



persisted throughout the cruises of the 

 Carnegie. 



Often when trying to make a landfall 

 and enter port we would experience ad- 

 verse winds or calms, and the winds usu- 

 ally would develop into storms or gales 

 before we were allowed to enter the har- 

 bor. 



On a surprisingly large number of 

 times we arrived ofif the port after night- 

 fall. The Carnegie being primarily a 

 sailing vessel, we could not specify the 

 hour of our arrival. 



After being "hove to" for 24 hours, we 

 at last anchored ofif Hammerfest at 1 

 o'clock in the morning of July 3. We 

 were ready to turn in and have a sleep, 

 but the whole town seemed to be awake 

 and ready to welcome us, and so our sleep 

 had to be postponed. 



The five-hour trip from the entrance of 

 Soro Sund to Hammerfest, through quiet 

 waters, in the midst of snow-capped 

 peaks, gave us some idea of the wonder- 



ful mountains and fjords for which Nor- 

 way is famous. We had our first glimpse 

 of the midnight sun as it swung around 

 the northern horizon, juct skimming the 

 mountain tops. 



Many vessels of all sizes and descrip- 

 tion -were busy at fishing, the chief indus- 

 try of Hammerfest. While riding at 

 anchor in the harbor we early became 

 aware of the presence of the many fish- 

 drying places on shore, and our land sta- 

 tions later were selected with due regard 

 for these locations, the "local disturbance" 

 being reduced to a minimum at a distance 

 of one mile to windward. We would see 

 boats crossing the harbor loaded high 

 with what seemed to be cordwood, but 

 closer inspection showed the cargo to be 

 dried fish stacked up on deck. 



Warehouses were full of dried fish 

 awaiting shipment, and many vessels were 

 in the harbor loading fish for Russian 

 ports. This was early in July, and al- 

 ready the hundred or more ships of the 



