Tom Cruise’s Swan 108 – built at Nautor Swan in Finland
At the quay of the Nautor Swan yard in Pietarsaari, Finland, lies the new Swan 108 of Tom Cruise: some 36 metres overall, a carbon-fibre hull, drawn by German Frer…
Expeditions & Discovery Tours
With Gypsy Life to where the charts end
For more than two decades Harald and Silvia Paul have lived aboard the expedition ship they designed themselves – among pack ice, northern lights and solitude. Here you will find their journeys, logbooks, photos and reports.
Expedition figures
over 100,000 nm
covered with Gypsy Life
since 1998
continuously under way without harbour supplies
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4×
North Atlantic crossed
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1×
At the 80th parallel north
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2×
in Svalbard
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7×
in Greenland
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2×
in Canada Labrador
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7×
Wintered in polar ice
News
News from on board
The most recent pictures and films from along the way.
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Tom Cruise’s Swan 108 at the Nautor Swan yard
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Tom Cruise’s Swan 108 – 36 metres, carbon-fibre hull
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Pilot boat: length 15 m, width 4.8 m, draught 2.2 m, weight 60 t
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Rudder
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Bow thruster tunnel
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Stern
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Rounded hull
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News items
High Coast
A new report, No. 32, “High Coast”, is finished and can again be ordered by email from harald-paul@haraldpaul.com. This report has plenty of photos, so that you ca…
A Quiet Spell
A new report, “A Quiet Spell”, is finished. Anyone who has known us for a while knows that the title sounds paradoxical, because a winter with ships in the ice can…
What We Offer
Books, films and “Paul’s Reports”
First-hand experiences – as a book, as a DVD and as an ongoing series of reports by email.
Digital – straight to your inbox
Paul’s Reports
Richly illustrated reports on life on board, technology, animals and landscape. You order by email and receive the file once the contribution towards costs has arrived.
The three most recent reports
Books and films
Freedom – Adventure – Wilderness Canada
An expedition to one’s own limits
Canada Adventure
An unforgettable experience
Northbound
To Spitsbergen by motorboat
Expedition Ice
An adventure journey into the polar region
Who we are
A life in harmony with nature
Harald Paul, the 63-year-old trained farmer who gave up his 25 years of self-employment in forestry and landscape management, has now devoted himself to a bigger task.
Together with his wife Silvia, after several years of practical experience at sea, they had a small expedition ship built for themselves.
Hands-on reporting from nature is part of the new field of work. The aim is that beautiful landscape and wildlife photographs let everyone decide for themselves what they can still change in order to increase their own contribution to nature conservation.
Under Way
Expeditions
From the Göta Canal to Labrador: every voyage has its own logbook and its own photo gallery.
Hot Instead of Ice
From Friesland through the canals of France to the Mediterranean – three years heading south instead of into the ice.
Expedition Danube – Alaska
From the Danube via Iceland and Greenland to Labrador – winters in the Arctic ice and four North Atlantic crossings.
Saimaa Wilderness / Karelia
Trial voyage through the Baltic and the Saimaa Canal into the Finnish lakeland – with new equipment for a self-sufficient power supply.
The Logbooks
Four voyages, documented without a gap – with position, wind, weather and water temperature.
The Photo Galleries
Icebergs, whales, northern lights and everyday life on board – photos from twenty years.
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