From our home in Norway, Helly Hansen has been making professional-grade gear that helps people stay and feel alive for the last 140 years. In 1877, after many years at sea, Norwegian captain Helly Juell Hansen and his wife, Maren Margarethe, began producing oilskin jackets, trousers, sou’westers and tarpaulins, made from coarse linen soaked in linseed oil. Since then, the legacy of Helly Hansen lives on, developing and creating along list of first-to-market innovations.