SØRLANDET is approaching Jamaica

A + World Academy is sailing with Sørlandet for fifth school year. They will cross the Atlantic and Equator several times before returning to Kristiansand - her home port - in May 2020.

SØRLANDET has arrived at St. Martin

Sørlandet has arrived at Marigot on St. Martin after a short voyage from Bridgetown, Barbados. On average, the ship had a speed of 6 knots and some periods of 10 knots.

Inspiration in art

Edvard Vigebo as a journalist and newspaper cartoonist? It was in this role that the famous artist first appeared in 1950. The young Vigebo was fascinated by the ship and life on board, he sailed with it and got to know the environment from the inside. In Fædrelandsvennen he wrote short epistles about his experience of the sailing community, illustrated with quick lines. We present here one of Vigebo's travel letters:

Ship charts

Here you can download the ship map

Terms and conditions for participation in Skutejakta 2023

Discipline - order - seamanship

It began with the Kristiansands shipowner O.A.T. Skjelbred establishing a endowment in 1918 of £25,000 to be used for the establishment of Sørlandets Seilende Skoleskibs Institution and the acquisition of a new fully rigged steel ship of approximately 6-700 br. reg. tons of space for approx. 80 boys as well as officers. In the statutes for the endowment, it was stated, among other things: "The purpose is to give boys who want the sea the best possible education in navalship as well as practically as theoretically under strict discipline and good order and seamanship on board." The capital should remain untouched until it had reached a million kroner. At the request of the shipowner Skjelbred, Christianssands Sjømandsforening took over the endowment's funds for management in the first place. In 1925, the million was reached, the seamen's association was relieved of its obligations, and the first board of the institution was appointed with then-port secretary Joh C. Tønnesen as chairman.