Wednesday July 11, 2007
After 2 days and 2 nights at sea Mokum and her crew which now consists of Jan Pieter, Pim, Reiner, and Erik + sat phone, have arrived in Trepassey. For those of you who don't have your atlasses handy Trepassey is on the south east coast of Newfoundland. Trepassey Bay is to the east of Placentia Bay and St Mary's Bay and is the last big inlet just before they "turn the corner" to head north to St. John's. You can replace "turn the corner" with some appropriate nautical term if you like - I prefer not to launch into my Long John Silver imitation yet - although the sun is over the yard arm, me hearties! Aaaaargh!
There was little wind so they did a lot of motoring and motor / sailing. They continually see whales and yesterday were accompanied by a - is it a pod? - of dolphins. The whales are within 20 meters of the boat and make a lot of noise when they "blow".
Erik's cell phone does work because he subscribes to Bell. It seems that we who subscribe to Rogers are out of luck, or service, to be more precise.
They are grateful for the (3?) GPS they have on board as once again the approach ( I think this is a "flying" term...again you sailors can substitute something nautical) into Trepassey was plagued with fog....did I just say plagued?!!! Aaaaaaargh!
Captain JP (fortunately he'll never know I called him this because he will never sit still long enough to read this blog) says he will call again on Friday - maybe sooner!
They will be entering ice berg territory! Stay tuned...