Safe in St. John's

After the best day of sailing to date Mokum and the crew arrived in St.John's yesterday - right on schedule. Actually they are ahead of their projected schedule - but there is still a lot to do before they finally wave goodbye and set out across the Atlantic next Wednesday. Yesterday they did some "real" sailing and experienced seven foot swells.
It was a beautiful sail into port for Reiner and Pim whose time on board has come to an end. They will return home within the next few days, no doubt with tales to tell and hopefully lots of pictures to post on the blog.
Yesterdays sightings included an "enormous" whale - as opposed to the, I guess, relatively smaller ones they have been seeing all along!- and lots of Puffins who swim along using their wings and slapping the water and actually seem to be racing against Mokum.
When I spoke to the crew this morning they were making to do lists which include going up the mast to check the antenna connection, renting a car for Monday to get the final tasks seen to, filling propane tanks...although they have downloaded the program onto the computer they are unable to connect with the sat phone in order to send their own e-mails so that to will be another of the many tasks that have to be dealt with before Wednesday.
I hope to get to St John's on Sunday and will be there to wave them out.
I just want to mention, to the many people who want to wish our sailors well, that anyone can post a comment. Just click on "comments" at the end of this entry and enter your comments, messages or well wishes. Over and out.