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We've been out here now for 19 years, the last 10 years full time, which means that this is our 20 season. Our first voyage was to the Caribbean between 1992 and 1995, when we sailed back to Europe. We then spent the year of 1996 in the Baltic, but unfortunately it was the coldest summer I can remember. The decision to sail to southern latitudes again was easy.
We embarked on the present journey on the 1st of July 1997 and sailed to the Mediterranean. In August 2000 we sold our house and moved aboard permanently (or 'for the time being' as we prefer to say). Every year, from June to August, we try to spend 3 months at our country home in Finland, leaving Scorpio in a yard or marina somewhere on the route.
Henrik is (was?) a lawyer and Malla is a registered x-ray nurse.
Henrik has the Certificates of Coastal, Offshore and Ocean Navigation and Astronomical Navigation, issued by The Finnish Navigation Association, and the International Certificate to Command Pleasure Crafts. He is also a PADI certified Advanced Open Water Scuba diver.
Malla is an excellent Gastronomical Navigator.
Together we have sailed more than 60.000 nautical miles aboard Scorpio since 1992 and cleared in and out of 80 countries or autonomous islands.
Henrik was named after his grandmothers father, Captain Henrik Skog, commander of the s/s HERMES, which, in WW1, disappeared mysteriously in the Arctic Northern Atlantic (fortunately Captain Skog was not aboard on that trip). Read more HERE.
Why do we spend a couple of months in Finland every Scandinavian summer. Read HERE.
Henrik can be found also on Facebook. 
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