Slogmåkane Wellerman

Early August, 2023 Slogmåkane was invited onboard the exact replica of the ship Restauration. With good help from Audun Mjølhus, who filmed the entire trip by following us with a drone, this event has resulted in a series of 4 videos, this being the third one. Very few events in Norwegian history have been met with greater fascination from Norwegians and expatriate Norwegians than the story of the “Restauration“ and the passage to America. The course of the departure, the exhausting trip across the Atlantic Ocean and the drama the emigrants experienced on arrival in New York are described in countless novels, non-fiction books and plays. Restauration is an iconic memorial and symbol of the first organized norwegian emigration to America, sailing Stavanger - New York with 52 people on board in 1825. The trip took 3 months. In 2025, the Restauration replica will be making the same trip as the original, to mark the bicentennial of the first official emigrants from Norway to America.