After buying our yacht SV Widdershins (previously SV Motgang) in February 2010, we needed to take her for a long trip to get familiar with her personality. While we planned a mammoth adventure, the myriad of beautiful islands and bays of Sørland in Norway’s south coast lured us into explorations of this wonderfully convoluted coastline. We made it to Flekkefjord (over 300 nautical miles from the journeys beginning in Oslo) but found ourselves too absorbed by the local landscape to travel quickly.