The Brendan Voyage (2010)
“Every day, we still saw icebergs drifting athwart our track. But after our recent escapade we were content to admire them at a distance, and at night keep a sharp lookout for their tell-tale ghostly shapes in the gloom. By now our chief feeling was the growing anticipation of finishing the voyage. We had been at sea for six weeks and were feeling worn. The constant strain of keeping alert for bad weather, the perpetual confines of our tiny boat, and the monotony of our daily seagoing routine ha...d imposed its own form of mental strait jacket that became daily more constricting. It was more than just good seamanship that made us scan the horizon for signs of land: we were eager for our landfall. We knew that the icebergs meant that the New World could not be far away, because the bergs were drifting south in the Labrador current which runs close to the Canadian coast. We began to see other evidence of land—logs floating in the water, occasional patches of weed, and an increase in bird-life.MoreLess
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